Understanding Government Budgets
Understanding Government Budgets

Author: R. Mark Musell

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-09-10

Total Pages: 117

ISBN-13: 1135855560

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Budgets in the United States follow rules of presentation and use terms that make sense to few outside the world of government finance. Moreover, practices vary widely among the thousands of governments in the country, between federal, state, and local levels. Understanding Government Budgets offers detailed explanations of each of the different types of information found in budgets, featuring annotated examples from both state and local budgets, as well as the budget of the federal government. It stresses that the choices made about format and organization influence the story a budget tells about government. The goal of the book is to make the format of budgets and the information they contain accessible and understandable, helping users make better sense of government and its performance. Perfect for undergraduate or graduate level courses in budgeting and public administration, Understanding Government Budgets also makes a useful guide to budgets for the average citizen with an interest in how government operates or journalists writing about it.

Environmental Protection and Management
Environmental Protection and Management

Author: Vivian Baldwin

Publisher: Murphy & Moore Publishing

Published: 2021-11-16

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 9781639871964

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The environment is degraded due to various reasons such as population growth, pollution, overconsumption, etc. The practices aimed at conserving and reducing these risks within the environment fall under environmental protection. Environmental management is a dynamic concept which is concerned with the management of environment using different tools and techniques such as environmental accounting, policy, auditing etc. Some of the goals of environmental protection are ensuring sustainable use of resources, conserving biological diversity, controlling land degradation, etc. The primary approaches to environmental protection and management are voluntary and international environmental agreements, and ecosystems approach. This book elucidates new techniques and their applications in a multidisciplinary approach. The topics included herein are of utmost significance and bound to provide incredible insights to readers. For all those who are interested in environmental protection and management, this textbook can prove to be an essential guide.