The Great Experiment

The Great Experiment
Author: Francis Geoffrey Castles
Publisher:
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1996
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

In the mid 1980s government in Australia and New Zealand embraced on programmes of economic and social transformation. Here a comparison between the two countries illuminates the causes, the process and the consequences of the experiment.

How States Shaped Postwar America

How States Shaped Postwar America
Author: Nicholas Dagen Bloom
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2019-04-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 022649845X

The history of public policy in postwar America tends to fixate on developments at the national level, overlooking the crucial work done by individual states in the 1960s and ’70s. In this book, Nicholas Dagen Bloom demonstrates the significant and enduring impact of activist states in five areas: urban planning and redevelopment, mass transit and highways, higher education, subsidized housing, and the environment. Bloom centers his story on the example set by New York governor Nelson Rockefeller, whose aggressive initiatives on the pressing issues in that period inspired others and led to the establishment of long-lived state polices in an age of decreasing federal power. Metropolitan areas, for both better and worse, changed and operated differently because of sustained state action—How States Shaped Postwar America uncovers the scope of this largely untold story.

Great Experiments in Physics

Great Experiments in Physics
Author: Morris H. Shamos
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2012-10-16
Genre: Science
ISBN: 048613962X

Starting with Galileo's experiments with motion, this study of 25 crucial discoveries includes Newton's laws of motion, Chadwick's study of the neutron, Hertz on electromagnetic waves, and more.

William R. Freudenberg, a Life in Social Research

William R. Freudenberg, a Life in Social Research
Author: Susan Maret
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2013-12-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1781907358

True to the nature of the Gedenkschrift, this commemorative publication celebrates the work of sociologist Dr. William Freudenburg, one of the founding editors of RSPPP and Dehlsen Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Soil and Water Conservation Research in the Great Plains States

Soil and Water Conservation Research in the Great Plains States
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 30
Release: 1963
Genre: Soil conservation
ISBN:

This publication describes a few examples of recent soil and water conservation research. The solution of soil and water conservation problems requires an intensive field experimental and investigational program supported by adequate laboratory and greenhouse research. From this research, practices are developed that can be applied to the land to conserve our resources.

Landscape-scale Conservation Planning

Landscape-scale Conservation Planning
Author: Stephen C. Trombulak
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2010-09-21
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9048195756

Hugh P. Possingham Landscape-scale conservation planning is coming of age. In the last couple of decades, conservation practitioners, working at all levels of governance and all spatial scales, have embraced the CARE principles of conservation planning – Comprehensiveness, Adequacy, Representativeness, and Efficiency. Hundreds of papers have been written on this theme, and several different kinds of software program have been developed and used around the world, making conservation planning based on these principles global in its reach and influence. Does this mean that all the science of conservation planning is over – that the discovery phase has been replaced by an engineering phase as we move from defining the rules to implementing them in the landscape? This book and the continuing growth in the literature suggest that the answer to this question is most definitely ‘no. ’ All of applied conservation can be wrapped up into a single sentence: what should be done (the action), in what place, at what time, using what mechanism, and for what outcome (the objective). It all seems pretty simple – what, where, when, how and why. However stating a problem does not mean it is easy to solve.