Cost Recovery and the Crisis of Service Delivery in South Africa
Cost Recovery and the Crisis of Service Delivery in South Africa

Author: David A. McDonald

Publisher: Zed Books

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13:

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There has been a dramatic shift worldwide from welfare municipalism - where the state both subsidized and provided essential municipal services - to a neoliberal vision of balanced budgets, fiscal restraint and privatization. Cost recovery is at the heart of this new municipal vision with far reaching implications for access to services, affordability and privatization. This book brings together a theoretical and empirical review of the impact of cost recovery on basic municipal services such as water, refuse collection and electricity, with particular reference to South Africa. It describes the theory and practice of cost recovery and presents six case studies drawing on participatory and ethnographic research. The final chapter examines alternative future possibilities, reformist or equity-oriented.

Trauma and Recovery
Trauma and Recovery

Author: Judith Lewis Herman

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2015-07-07

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0465098738

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In this groundbreaking book, a leading clinical psychiatrist redefines how we think about and treat victims of trauma. A "stunning achievement" that remains a "classic for our generation." (Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., author of The Body Keeps the Score). Trauma and Recovery is revered as the seminal text on understanding trauma survivors. By placing individual experience in a broader political frame, Harvard psychiatrist Judith Herman argues that psychological trauma is inseparable from its social and political context. Drawing on her own research on incest, as well as a vast literature on combat veterans and victims of political terror, she shows surprising parallels between private horrors like child abuse and public horrors like war. Hailed by the New York Times as "one of the most important psychiatry works to be published since Freud," Trauma and Recovery is essential reading for anyone who seeks to understand how we heal and are healed.

Cost Recovery
Cost Recovery

Author: Richard B. Lanza

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2009-08-11

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13: 0470526149

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Cost Recovery: Turning Your Accounts Payable Department into a Profit Center shows how to identify a company's hidden financial assets. It provides tools to assist organizations generate cash recoveries, stop profit leaks, move away from control issues, and work towards process improvements. The book shows how to incorporate profit recovery technology, and how to pair a company with a recovery expert best suited to the company's needs to achieve bottom line results. The book discusses how to utilize free services offered by cost recovery consultants, using of top money-saving proves improvements, and how to create a plan to maximize recovering technology.

Patent Remedies and Complex Products
Patent Remedies and Complex Products

Author: C. Bradford Biddle

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-06-27

Total Pages: 379

ISBN-13: 1108426751

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Through a collaboration among twenty legal scholars from North America, Europe and Asia, this book presents an international consensus on the use of patent remedies for complex products such as smartphones, computer networks, and the Internet of Things. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Financial Recovery
Financial Recovery

Author: Karen McCall

Publisher: New World Library

Published: 2011-03-21

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 157731929X

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After healing her own unhealthy relationship with money, and transforming her financial disaster into prosperity and security, Karen McCall created a recovery program she has now used for more than twenty years to help individuals, couples, and businesses large and small. In the midst of her money troubles, she saw a need for something other than financial planners, accountants, and credit counselors. These experts could tell her what she should be doing differently, but she needed someone to help her understand the underlying causes of chronic, self-defeating overspending and credit card debt, underearning, and low or no savings. To save herself, she created practical, holistic tools that address these sources of pain and shame. McCall’s program supports people as they uncover their deep-seated attitudes about money; provides simple, step-by-step tools for healing areas of physical, emotional, and spiritual deprivation; and teaches skills and strategies for experiencing lasting personal and financial fulfillment even in the midst of economic challenges and reversals.

Oil Spills and Gas Leaks: Environmental Response, Prevention and Cost Recovery
Oil Spills and Gas Leaks: Environmental Response, Prevention and Cost Recovery

Author: Stephen M. Testa

Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional

Published: 2013-02-01

Total Pages: 593

ISBN-13: 0071772901

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The definitive guide to petroleum hydrocarbon fuel spill and leak causes, prevention, response, and cost recovery Oil Spills and Gas Leaks highlights the complex nature of petroleum hydrocarbon fuel extraction methods, the unintended consequences when disasters occur, spill behavior, and environmental impact mitigation. This practical resource discusses engineering techniques; long-term biological and environmental effects; dealing with insurance claims, litigation, and legislation in overlapping jurisdictions; and much more. Featuring global case studies and best practices, this timely volume provides an in-depth understanding of how oil spills and gas leaks occur and describes the most effective environmental assessment, remediation, and restoration options available to respond to these industrial accidents. Coverage includes: The role of petroleum hydrocarbon fuels in society Geology and geochemistry of oil and gas deposits Oil and gas well drilling and production issues Hydraulic fracturing for shale gas and oil Behavior of oil spills in various environments Behavior of gas leaks in various environments Assessment of spills and leaks Toxicity issues and exposure pathways Subsurface investigations Sampling strategies and remedial approaches Sampling methods on land and offshore Prevention, oversight, and mitigation Remediation of oil spills Case histories and cost recovery Oil spills and wildlife Oil spills and safety issues Conclusions and recommendations

Industrial Cost Recovery
Industrial Cost Recovery

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Water Resources

Publisher:

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 462

ISBN-13:

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Industrial Cost Recovery
Industrial Cost Recovery

Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Environmental Pollution

Publisher:

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13:

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Cost Analysis, Cost Recovery, Marketing and Fee-Based Services
Cost Analysis, Cost Recovery, Marketing and Fee-Based Services

Author: M Sandra Wood

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-18

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 1317951301

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This outstanding volume won the 1986 Ida and George Eliot Prize--awarded by the Medical Library Association for the work judged most effective in furthering medical librarianship. Library professionals review the controversy behind fee-for-service programs and provide a rationale for incorporating them into contemporary library philosophies of service. Some fee-based services are necessary for survival in a society that treats information as a marketable commodity; this comprehensive book gives practical advice on cost analysis, cost recovery and marketing of reference services, and presents information on establishing a fee-based information service, as well as examples of successful information service programs.