Navigating Community Development

Navigating Community Development
Author: Robert O. Zdenek
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2017-07-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1137477016

This book describes the evolution of the community development sector over the past 50 years, and it presents a framework and road map for how community development organizations can advance their mission through strategic partnerships that utilize their core competencies. The authors describe the current community development ecosystem, define a range of essential community development competencies, and demonstrate, through seven case studies, how using comparative advantages built on core competencies can improve outcomes for communities. By recognizing and leading with their competencies and strengths, organizations can bring their specialized areas of expertise to address complex and interconnected community challenges, and effectively meet their missions and objectives.

Navigating the Complexity Across the Peace–Sustainability–Climate Security Nexus

Navigating the Complexity Across the Peace–Sustainability–Climate Security Nexus
Author: Bernard Amadei
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 411
Release: 2023-11-28
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1000992039

Promoting peace and sustainability in human development while accounting for the risks associated with the impact of climate change on society has become more imperative than ever when addressing humanity's challenges of the twenty-first century. There is enough evidence that peace, sustainability, and climate security are entangled with multiple complex interactions and cannot be dealt with in isolation and independently from the environment and the numerous systems with which they interact. Yet, the intersection of peace, sustainability, and climate security or their opposites (i.e., conflict, unsustainability, and climate vulnerability) is rarely articulated with a systemic mindset. A multi-solving nexus approach is more appropriate to capture the complexity and uncertainty of how the three sectors of peace, sustainability, and climate security play a role in community development, the nature of their causal chains, and the feedback on how community development affects the three sectors. Navigating the Complexity Across the Peace–Sustainability–Climate Security Nexus explores the value proposition of using a systems approach, methodology, and tools to comprehend and model that dynamic. Features of the book: Explores the interaction between the different components of peace and the relationship between peace, sustainability, and climate security using semi-qualitative and quantitative tools; Explains how climate adaptation and mitigation are related to peace or conflict; Presents generic system dynamics modeling that can be used in different contexts.

Navigating Complexity

Navigating Complexity
Author: Project Management Institute
Publisher: Project Management Institute
Total Pages: 123
Release: 2014-03-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1628250712

With greater organizational complexities looming on the horizon, PMI has introduced Navigating Complexity: A Practice Guide. The definitive guide expands upon the principles, tools, and techniques presented in the PMBOK&® Guide and other foundational standards, providing a streamlined approach to understanding and navigating complexity. This groundbreaking guide fills a void, providing the first published reference to help project management professionals successfully mitigate complexities and accomplish their organizational goals.

Patterns of News Consumption in a High-Choice Media Environment

Patterns of News Consumption in a High-Choice Media Environment
Author: Raluca Buturoiu
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2023-10-06
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3031419545

Based on a Romanian case study, this book sheds light on the supply and demand of news and information in the current digital era, dominated by unprecedented dramatic changes. In addition to identifying patterns of journalistic reporting and news consumption, the book offers a thorough approach to how the classic theories in media and communication studies can be reinterpreted in the current attention economy and media abundance paradigm. The research data included in this book provide a snapshot of media consumption patterns and encompass experts’ views and predictions about how media habits and diets might evolve. The book will appeal to students, researchers, and scholars of media and communication studies, political communication, and journalism, as well as practitioners interested in a better understanding of news consumption patterns in a high-choice media environment.

Nurturing Your Child's Math and Literacy in Pre-K–Fifth Grade

Nurturing Your Child's Math and Literacy in Pre-K–Fifth Grade
Author: Mary Mueller
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2016-11-23
Genre: Education
ISBN: 147582601X

With recent changes in the curriculum and standards in language arts and mathematics, parents often are challenged to find ways to help their children be successful in their learning endeavors. While parents want to be involved in their children’s education, they are often unsure of their role in their children’s learning and the best ways to help their children to succeed academically. Moreover, with the changes in how math and literacy are being taught, parents often struggle with helping even first grade children with their homework. In this book we set out to alleviate this struggle, by offering parents a resource they can use to navigate their child’s education, communicate with teachers, and support their children in learning mathematics and literacy. After providing an overview of the current educational climate and tips for communication with teachers, we share strategies and suggestions parents can use to assist their children in language arts and mathematics. We provide detailed descriptions of activities, games, books, and conversations that connect with what children will be learning at each grade level.

Army

Army
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1452
Release: 1985
Genre: Military art and science
ISBN:

Library 2035

Library 2035
Author: Sandra Hirsh
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2024-05-07
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1538180413

"Essential reading for all library workers and information professionals and, indeed, for any person concerned about the future of libraries." - Library Journal Building on the success and impact of Library 2020: Today’s Leading Visionaries Describe Tomorrow’s Library by Joseph Janes, Library 2035: Imagining the Next Generation of Libraries updates, expands upon, and broadens the discussions on the future of libraries and the ways in which they transform information services to best serve their communities.Library 2035 explores the lessons learned over the past decade and forecasts the opportunities, strengths, and challenges for libraries in the future. Contributors including R. David Lankes, Kelvin Watson, Annie Norman, Miguel Figueroa, and Nicole Cooke, along with 25 other library leaders, were asked to describe the “library of 2035” in whatever way they wanted. Their responses to this question will inspire, provoke, challenge, and expand our thinking about the role and importance of libraries in the future. Library leaders, LIS students and faculty will find this book particularly meaningful and useful as we grapple with what the future of libraries and the profession will be.

The Learning Advantage

The Learning Advantage
Author: D. Christopher Kayes
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 137
Release: 2011-05-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0230305598

Highlighting the best in management learning theory and practices, the authors provide a comprehensive approach to leadership from a learning perspective. This exciting new book, from award-winning authorities on learning, describes how leaders gain the advantage when they cultivate learning in themselves and others.

Principles of Fire and Emergency Services Administration Includes Navigate Advantage Access

Principles of Fire and Emergency Services Administration Includes Navigate Advantage Access
Author: Randy R Bruegman
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Total Pages: 553
Release: 2021-03-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1284220087

"This book introduces the student to the organization and management of a fire and emergency services department and the relationship of government agencies to the fire service. Emphasis is placed on fire and emergency service, ethics, and leadership from the perspective of the company officer"--