Champion Citizen
Champion Citizen

Author: HCCTA Elementary Reads

Publisher: First Edition Design Pub.

Published: 2014-01-04

Total Pages: 86

ISBN-13: 1622874951

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Do you know what your special talent is and how you can use it to make the world a better place? Series One of HCCTA Elementary Reads is about five champion athletes who overcame many obstacles, set records, and made the world better. Read how these athletes did it and discover how you can do it, too. Arthur Ashe Tennis James Blake Tennis Billie Jean King Tennis Gale Sayers Football George Taliaferro Football Hamilton County Community Tennis Association is teaching young people about education, diversity, and community service through tennis. To make a tax-deductible contribution or to learn more about HCCTA, please visit www.hccta.org.

Champion Citizen
Champion Citizen

Author: Helen Moser Petersen

Publisher: First Edition Design Pub.

Published: 2017-12-22

Total Pages: 26

ISBN-13: 1506905587

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Interpreting Feyerabend
Interpreting Feyerabend

Author: Karim Bschir

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-03-18

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1108620531

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This collection of new essays interprets and critically evaluates the philosophy of Paul Feyerabend. It offers innovative historical scholarship on Feyerabend's take on topics such as realism, empiricism, mimesis, voluntarism, pluralism, materialism, and the mind-body problem, as well as certain debates in the philosophy of physics. It also considers the ways in which Feyerabend's thought can contribute to contemporary debates in science and public policy, including questions about the nature of scientific methodology, the role of science in society, citizen science, scientism, and the role of expertise in public policy. The volume will provide readers with a comprehensive overview of the topics which Feyerabend engaged with throughout his career, showing both the breadth and the depth of his thought.

The Citizen's Guide to Planning
The Citizen's Guide to Planning

Author: Christopher Duerksen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-11-08

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 135117794X

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APA's popular primer for citizens is all new! For decades, planning officials and engaged citizens have relied on this book for a better understanding of the basics of planning. Now the authors have revised this perennial bestseller into a 21st-century guide for anyone who wants to make his or her community a better place. This book describes the land-use planning process, the key players in that process, and the legal framework in which decisions are made. The authors advocate principles and disciplines that will help those involved in the process make good decisions. In easy-to-understand language, they offer nuts-and-bolts information about different types of plans and how they are implemented. Chapters cover the goals and values of planning, the history of planning, the different people and organizations involved, the creation and implementation of a comprehensive plan, sustainability, the application review process, and legal and ethical questions.

Citizen Empowerment and Innovation in the Data-Rich City
Citizen Empowerment and Innovation in the Data-Rich City

Author: Chiara Certomà

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-02-07

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 3319479040

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This book analyzes the ongoing transformation in the “smart city” paradigm and explores the possibilities that technological innovations offer for the effective involvement of ordinary citizens in collective knowledge production and decision-making processes within the context of urban planning and management. To so, it pursues an interdisciplinary approach, with contributions from a range of experts including city managers, public policy makers, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) specialists, and researchers. The first two parts of the book focus on the generation and use of data by citizens, with or without institutional support, and the professional management of data in city governance, highlighting the social connectivity and livability aspects essential to vibrant and healthy urban environments. In turn, the third part presents inspiring case studies that illustrate how data-driven solutions can empower people and improve urban environments, including enhanced sustainability. The book will appeal to all those who are interested in the required transformation in the planning, management, and operations of data-rich cities and the ways in which such cities can employ the latest technologies to use data efficiently, promoting data access, data sharing, and interoperability.

Eruptions, Initiatives and Evolution in Citizen Activism
Eruptions, Initiatives and Evolution in Citizen Activism

Author: Rajesh Tandon

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-02-08

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1317618467

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Eruptions, Initiatives and Evolution in Citizen Activism is the result of a collaborative research project spanning Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Europe. The book analyses internal and external challenges to civil society in more than twenty countries. It investigates through studies of ountries that include South Africa, India and the Netherlands of civil society evolution; examinations of citizen activism, such as Occupy London, the Chilean student movement, the Cambodian farmers campaign against land grabs; regional overviews such as the Southern Cone of Latin America, Southern Africa, and Russia. The studies identify changing roles, capacities, contributions and limitations of civil society in response to changing political, economic and social contexts. The book goes on to present selected studies, identifies patterns and lessons that emerge across countries and regions. It articulates implications of those lessons for practitioners and policy makers concerned with civil society contributions to national and regional development. This book was published as a special double issue of Development in Practice.

The Policy Uptake of Citizen Sensing
The Policy Uptake of Citizen Sensing

Author: Berti Suman, Anna

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2021-08-27

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1800882602

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‘Citizen sensing’, the practice in which grassroots actors use sensor technology for environmental monitoring, is increasingly entering the debate around environmental risk governance. This groundbreaking book explores the potential for citizen sensing to concretely influence the governance of environmental risks to public health by shaping policy responses implemented by competent institutions.