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Fred Phillips

Our understanding of technology's role in modern regional economic development has not kept pace with the rush of governments, civic organizations and NGOs to launch new technology based economic development ("TED") initiatives. This book advances our understanding of TED from a practical, applied viewpoint and is enriched by short contributions from other key figures in Austin's and Portland's technopolis efforts. Focusing on the Austin (Texas) and Portland (Oregon) experiences, but drawing from a wealth of other regional examples, this volume shows how to achieve successful TED and demonstrates through case studies the ten principles that no TED initiative can afford to ignore. Once mastered, these principles can enable regions to become new centres of economic activity for the new century.

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René Amalberti

Managing safety in a professional environment requires constant negotiation with other competitive dimensions of risk management (finances, market and political drivers, manpower and social crisis). This is obvious, although generally not said in safety manuals. The book provides a unique vision of how to best find these compromises, starting with lessons learnt from natural risk management by individuals, then applying them to the craftsman industry, complex industrial systems (civil aviation, nuclear energy) and public services (like transportation and medicine). It offers a unique, illustrated, easy to read and scientifically based set of original concepts and pragmatic methods to revisit safety management and adopt a successful system vision. As such, and with illustrations coming from many various fields (aviation, fishing, nuclear, oil, medicine), it potentially covers a broad readership.

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John Felleman

The stewardship of land and water natural resources is ultimately the responsibility of the owners, managers, and users of these resources. The environmental movement addressed these complex issues through an ever growing complex of top down federal, state, and local regulations each focusing on a narrow topics such as water pollution . The information revolution, which paralled these regulations, compartmentalized the data and information used in regualtion into numerous independent "data silos". This non techniacal book provides a graphic approach to undertanding how this information system has evolved, and presents recommendations on how to bridge the information gap between bureaucratic processess and knowledge needs of the stewards.

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Michael V. Russo

[TofC cont.] Environmental management cases; Bank of America and the Carlsbad Highlands Foreclosure (A) / A.T. Lawrence; Pacific Lumber Company / M.V. Russo and C. Noblitt; Procter & Gamble Inc., Downy Enviro-Pak / J. Lahey, C. Lane, and A.B. Ryans; Clamshell Controversy / S. Svobody; Industrial products, Inc. (A), Measuring environmental performance / R. Wells. [This book] address[es] the important perspectives surrounding how business operations and management decisions affect the environment. The readings in this text address a broad and substantive range of issues, institutions, and principles/techniques of environmental management. The cases cover a wide variety of issues and contexts and allow for ample application of the concepts and tools addressed in the readings. -Back cover.