Download or read book Parking written by Dorina Pojani and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most parking research to date has been conducted in Western countries. Parking: An International Perspective is different. Taking a planetary view of urbanism, this book examines parking policies in 12 cities on five continents: Auckland, Bangkok, Doha, Los Angeles, Melbourne, Nairobi, Rotterdam, Santiago, Sao Paulo, Shenzhen, Singapore, and Tokyo. Chapters are similarly structured, and contain detailed information about the current parking strategies and issues in these cities. The discussion of parking is placed in the context of transport, mobility, land-use, society, technology, and planning in each of these cities - Features structured case studies focused on summarizing current and emerging trends in parking policy and practice in cities around the world - Provides a systematic comparison of parking issues and approaches across a variety of situational and cultural contexts – examining each city's transport modes, social trends, land use, technology and planning policies - Offers a bridge between transport planning research and practice related to the latest trends in parking and parking space re-use

Download or read book The Blue Badge Scheme written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Transport Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2008 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disabled people may be missing out on special parking concessions because of where they live. This is the main finding of this report into the Blue Badge Scheme, which offers parking concessions for disabled people. It comes as the Government carries out a strategic review of the scheme. The Committee found wide differences in the way the eligibility criteria are assessed by different local authorities. It wants to see more done to promote consistent good practice across the country.The Committee's conclusions include: (1) the Committee wants to see the minimum issue period for a badge reduced from three years to one, to include those with short-term or temporary disabilities. It would also like to see "smart card" technology developed so there could be even more flexibility over the issuing of badges. (2) In cases where a blue badge holder's condition is unlikely to improve they should not usually have to undergo regular three-yearly assessments, but have their badge renewed automatically. (3) the Government should consider including central London, which currently has its own regime, in the national system. (4) eligibility for a blue badge should be based on mobility in a wider sense than simply on an applicant's ability to walk. But the Government should also look to more appropriate ways of helping people with other disabilities, such as bowel disease. (5) for those who knowingly abuse the scheme the Committee want to see tougher penalties. In particular, those who use stolen badges should have their vehicles impounded. A national database should also be established to help combat fraud. (6) the Security Industry Authority should take steps to prevent vehicles displaying a valid badge from being clamped when they are parked on private land. (7) the Committee also found that Asda was the only example given of a major national company which consistently fined people who abused its disabled bays.

Download or read book Public Private Partnerships in Transitional Nations written by Nada Kakabadse and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-23 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection examines public-private partnerships (PPPs) in transitional nations from the governance perspective. It explores the structures, legal frameworks and collaborative arrangements that underpin partnerships in Europe, Asia and Africa, and highlights government decisions that facilitate the transformation of societal challenges into developmental opportunities. By sharing the experience of nine nations, including China, Indonesia, Russia and Nigeria, it helps to better understand the commonalities in PPP deployment, avoid mistakes and pitfalls, and learn from other economies. The book raises the critical questions that concern many governments, including: What are the common and frequent mistakes that governments make when they deploy partnerships and deal with governance issues? How can countries increase PPPs’ benefits? Can PPPs be instrumental in accomplishing certain less traditional government tasks, such as disaster risk management of built infrastructure and promotion of clean energy? Can PPPs serve as a backbone of entrepreneurial networks and contribute to sustainable development? The groundwork is laid out for contrasting and comparing successful and unsuccessful government actions, institutional, legal and financing initiatives and procedures, allowing one to make cross-country and cross-sectoral comparisons. Policy-makers, consultants, managers and others working in the PPP field will find this volume useful, as well as academics, as they can learn from the international comparisons and the experience of others.

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Download or read book Architect s Guide to Feng Shui written by Cate Bramble and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a practical guide showing architects how to assess and apply the principles of authentic feng shui. Providing easy access to serious technical information, this pocket book enables architects to benefit from the valuable principles of this proven art and avoid its eccentric reputation. Authentic feng shui can match structures and land with uncanny precision, and affords a peculiar capacity to forecast development-related problems including cost overruns and even trade disputes! This book demonstrates how to apply the harmonizing forms of this ancient practice through planning principles, natural features, services, building elements and materials. Using evidence from archaeological sources and genuine practice in the east, the author analyses feng shui through concepts such as western systems theory, evolutionary and behavioral psychology, viewshed and space syntax, and explains its profound abilities for creating sustainable design.

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Download or read book Health and Safety Premises and Environment Handbook 2012 written by Workplace Law Group and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2011-12-03 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Health and Safety, Premises and Environment Handbook 2012 provides you with all the essential information you need on legislation, regulation, policy, case law and best practice. Information is presented in plain English, and broken down into separate A-Z sections containing legislative summaries, key points, handy fact boxes and sources of further information. All the guidance is written and compiled by our team of expert authors, including top law firms, surveyors, safety consultants and regulatory bodies. Workplace Law's Health and Safety, Premises and Environment Handbook is aimed at all those with an interest in the health and safety, premises and environmental management aspects of the workplace, and so our readership consists mainly of Health and Safety managers, officers and directors, Facilities Managers, as well as General Managers and Directors of small businesses.

Download or read book The Marketization of Employment Services written by Ian Greer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Markets have become the favoured means for re-engineering public services, to reduce costs while increasing innovation, performance, accountability to taxpayers, and responsiveness to clients. This book provides a new conceptualization of the markets, the dilemmas and tradeoffs they generate, and the differing services and workplaces that result.

Download or read book Report of the Committee on Relations with the Host Country written by United Nations. Committee on Relations with the Host Country and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Management and administration of contracted employment programmes written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Work and Pensions Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2010-03-18 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report examines contracted employment programmes and focuses in particular on the prevention of fraud, the treatment of subcontractors, and ensuring fair treatment of customers. The Committee found that levels of detected fraud in contracted employment programmes are low, but feels that there is no room for complacency; the frauds uncovered to date have highlighted the existence of weaknesses in the system which could be exploited. Processes for the detection of fraud must be rigorous and robust. In addition, the financial penalties for providers who have fraud in their organisation are not severe enough. The report calls for customer rights to be given a much higher priority, and for a universal, monitored, and enforceable customer charter to be introduced. It also calls on the Department to carry out a "Customer Survey" of customers of contracted employment programmes to enable standards of customer service to be compared between providers and with Jobcentre Plus. The quality of provision to vulnerable groups, particularly those with disabilities, is another area of concern as providers are having to work with customers with more severe barriers than they had anticipated. The Report examines several examples of potential mistreatment of sub-contractors including allegations of the operation of a cartel, and notes that while it does not know how widespread unfair treatment of subcontractors is, neither does the Department.

Download or read book Frontline Delivery of Welfare to Work Policies in Europe written by Rik van Berkel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welfare-to-work or activation policies refer to programmes aimed at promoting the employability, labour-market and social participation of benefit recipients of working age. Frontline workers delivering these policies are conceived of as policy implementers, as policy makers, and as actors mediating politics in an arena where conflicting interests are at stake. Frontline work plays a crucial role in determining what welfare-to-work practically means and how it affects the lives of the people it targets. Yet few books have deliberatively focused on comparing what happens when frontline workers, some of whom are professional social workers, meet clients. Pioneering the provision of scholarly reflections on both theoretical and policy relevance of studying frontline practices of delivering activation, internationally renowned researchers present the first comparative analysis of how activation policies are actually delivered by frontline staff in selected EU countries and in the United States. In trying to understand and interpret frontline practices in activation, each contribution provides insights into what ‘activation in practice’ looks like, what services are provided and how they are enacted. This involves examining processes of client selection, monitoring, sanctioning and motivating, as well as the role of external service providers. This book is an important acquisition for scholars and researchers of social policy, public administration, public management, social work and policy implementation.

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Download or read book Contracting out Welfare Services written by Siobhan O'Sullivan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-12-23 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contracting-out Welfare Services focuses on the design and overhaul of welfare-to-work systems around the world in the light of the radical re-design of the welfare system; internationally based authors utilise a national/program case study, considering employment services policy and activation practices. International contributors bring a global comparative perspective to the subject Contributors are all experts in their field, who also draw on a much longer intellectual legacy Uses employment services as a case study to advance understanding in relation to a host of broader principles and concepts Each paper included within the text uses a national/program case study, and each considers employment services policy in general, and activation practices in particular

Download or read book Combating Child Labour written by Assefa Bequele and published by International Labour Organization. This book was released on 1988 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines the developments in the campaign against child labour and the defence of the rights of children.

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