Understanding and Managing Threats to the Environment in South Eastern Europe
Understanding and Managing Threats to the Environment in South Eastern Europe

Author: Gorazd Meško

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2011-02-08

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9400706111

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This volume presents reflections on a variety of environmental issues in South-Eastern Europe from diverse contemporary scientific disciplines. The contributions address many crucial issues including national environmental policies, economic instruments for preventing crimes against the environment, international waste trafficking, threats to air, water and soil due to mining, management of dump areas, environment protection and food safety from a perspective of public health. The book will be a useful resource for researchers, developers and decision makers interested in the stability and sustainable development of the South-Eastern European countries.

Handbook of Military Administration
Handbook of Military Administration

Author: Jeffrey A. Weber

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2007-12-07

Total Pages: 478

ISBN-13: 1420016970

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While policy makers are perpetually conceptualizing new reform packages, the actual enactment of those reforms is typically more challenging. Remarkably, the one public institution that is able to meet that challenge is also the largest. The United States Department of Defense, which employs over 600,000 people and deals with $500 billion in fundin

Conviviality and Survival
Conviviality and Survival

Author: Sacha Darke

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-07-16

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 3319922106

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Brazilian authorities continuously fail to comply with international norms on minimal conditions of incarceration. Brazil's prison population has risen ten-fold since the country's return to democracy in the 1980s. Its prisons typically operate at double official capacity and with 100 prisoners for each guard on duty. At the same time, however, the average Brazilian prison is not as disorderly or its staff-inmate relations so conflictual as our established theories on prison life might predict. This monograph explores the means by which Brazilian prisons function in the absence of guards. More specifically, the means by which prison security and inmate discipline is negotiated between prison managers, gangs and the wider inmate body. While fragile and varied, this historical tradition of co-produced governance has for decades kept most prisons in better order and enabled most prisoners to better survive.

Intelligent and Adaptive Educational-Learning Systems
Intelligent and Adaptive Educational-Learning Systems

Author: Alejandro Peña-Ayala

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-08-10

Total Pages: 522

ISBN-13: 3642301711

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The Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies book series encompasses the topics of knowledge, intelligence, innovation and sustainability. The aim of the series is to make available a platform for the publication of books on all aspects of single and multi-disciplinary research on these themes in order to make the latest results available in a readily-accessible form. This book is devoted to the “Intelligent and Adaptive Educational-Learning Systems”. It privileges works that highlight key achievements and outline trends to inspire future research. After a rigorous revision process twenty manuscripts were accepted and organized into four parts: Modeling, Content, Virtuality and Applications. This volume is of interest to researchers, practitioners, professors and postgraduate students aimed to update their knowledge and find out targets for future work in the field of artificial intelligence on education.