Download or read book Future Matters written by Barbara Adam and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-09-30 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Future Matters concerns contemporary approaches to the future – how the future is known, created and minded. In a social world whose pace continues to accelerate the future becomes an increasingly difficult terrain. While the focus of social life is narrowing down to the present, the futures we create on a daily basis cast ever longer shadows. Future Matters addresses this paradox and its deep ethical implications. It locates contemporary approaches to the future in a wider sociological and historical framework of practices, traces differences and continuities, and shows how contemporary practices of futures-construction make taking responsibility for futures all but impossible.
Download or read book Planning as if People Matter written by Marc Brenman and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2012-08-16 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American communities are changing fast: ethnic minority populations are growing, home ownership is falling, the number of people per household is going up, and salaries are going down. According to Marc Brenman and Thomas W. Sanchez, the planning field is largely unprepared for these fundamental shifts. If planners are going to adequately serve residents of diverse ages, races, and income levels, they need to address basic issues of equity. Planning as if People Matter offers practical solutions to make our communities more livable and more equitable for all residents. While there are many books on environmental justice, relatively few go beyond theory to give real-world examples of how better planning can level inequities. In contrast, Planning as if People Matter is written expressly for planning practitioners, public administrators, policy-makers, activists, and students who must directly confront these challenges. It provides new insights about familiar topics such as stakeholder participation and civil rights. And it addresses emerging issues, including disaster response, new technologies, and equity metrics. Far from an academic treatment, Planning as if People Matter is rooted in hard data, on-the-ground experience, and current policy analysis. In this tumultuous period of economic change, there has never been a better time to reform the planning process. Brenman and Sanchez point the way toward a more just social landscape.
Download or read book Future All That Matters written by Ziauddin Sardar and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2013-10-25 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Future: All That Matters, Ziauddin Sardar shows that thinking and speculating about the future has always been a part of human history, but exploring the futures in a systematic and scientific way is a recent phenomenon. What is known variously as 'futures studies', 'futurology' or 'foresight' only emerged as a discipline during the last few decades. The study of the future, however, is not only about 'predicting' or 'forecasting' the future, which is always a perilous exercise. It is also about appreciating the potentials and possibilities, as well as risks and threats, lurking over the horizon. It can enable us both to avoid the dangers as well as shape a viable and desirable future. This book explores the exciting field of futures studies, and shows how knowledge of the future is acquired and put into practice. We examine various methods for studying the future, with the emphasis not so much on predicting specific events but on delineating alternative paths to the future. We look at some celebrated readings of the future as well as case studies where exploration of the future has been used to shape policy and planning in businesses and communities, international organisations and regional institutions, and interest and lobby groups. Finally, the book suggests why and how in an increasingly complex, uncertain and diverse world, the study of the future can help people recover their agency and help them to create the world in which they wish to live. This accessible and readable book will appeal both to students and general readers, giving a fascinating introduction to thinking about the future - and what matters most about it.
Download or read book Federal Design Matters written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book What Matters and Who Matters to Young People Leaving Care written by Peter Appleton and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2024-03-28 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EPDF and EPUB are available open access under CC BY NC ND licence. This publication was supported by University of Essex's open access fund. Peter Appleton builds on research interviews with care-experienced young adults, and on cross-disciplinary theories of planning and of emotions, to develop a model of planning for young people leaving care.
Download or read book Everyday Matters in Science and Mathematics written by Ricardo Nemirovsky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-12-13 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book re-examines the dichotomy between the everyday and the disciplinary in mathematics and science education, and explores alternatives to this opposition from points of view grounded in the close examination of complex classroom events. It makes the case that students' everyday experience and knowledge in their entire manifold forms matter crucially in learning sciences and mathematics. The contributions of 13 research teams are organized around three themes: 1) the experiences of students in encounters with everyday matters of a discipline; 2) the concerns of curriculum designers, including teachers, as they design activities intended to focus on everyday matters of a discipline; and 3) the actions of teachers as they create classroom encounters with everyday matters of a discipline. As a whole the volume reflects the shift in the field of educational research in recent years away from formal, structural models of learning toward emphasizing its situated nature and the sociocultural bases of teaching and learning. At least two trends--increasing awareness that formal theories can be useful guides but are always partial and provisional in how they disclose classroom experiences, and the widespread availability of video and audio equipment that enables effortless recording of classroom interactions--have reoriented the field by allowing researchers and teachers to look at learning starting with complex classroom events rather than formal theories of learning. Such examinations are not meant to replace the work on general theoretical frameworks, but to ground them in actual complex events. This reorientation means that researchers and teachers can now encounter the complexity of learning and teaching as lived, human meaning-making experiences. Immersion in this complexity compels rethinking assumptions about the dichotomies that have traditionally organized the field's thinking about learning. Further, it has important implications for how the relationship between theory and practice in understanding teaching and learning is viewed. Everyday Matters in Science and Mathematics: Studies of Complex Classroom Events is an important resource for researchers, teacher educators, and graduate students in mathematics and science education, and a strong supplemental text for courses in these areas and also in cognition and instruction and instructional design.
Download or read book Sustainability Matters written by Lin Heng Lye and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2010 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a compilation of papers prepared from the best Dissertations and Study Reports prepared by students on the MSc (Environmental Management) programme at the National University of Singapore. The chapters cover all the key aspects of environmental management. The aim is to produce a reference book which will be useful to students and practitioners in the various branches of the environment.
Download or read book Investigation of Railroads Holding Companies Affiliated Companies and Related Matters written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 1660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Investigations of Railroads Holding Companies and Affiliated Companies and Related Matters written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 1636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Investigation of Railroads Holding Companies Affiliated Companies and Related Matters written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce. Subcommittee Pursuant to S. Res. 71 and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 1654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Sustainability Matters Environmental Management In Asia written by Lin Heng Lye and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2010-07-27 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a compilation of some of the best research papers of students from the MSc (Environmental Management) programme at the National University of Singapore from 2001-2006. They have been edited for brevity and cover a wide range of topics encompassing Corporate Environmental Management, the Conservation of Biological Diversity, Land use Planning, the Marine Environment, the Environment and Economic Development, Energy Sustainability, as well as Urban Pollution and Waste Management. These issues are examined in the context of different Asian countries, including Bangladesh, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. This book provides perspectives of the many challenges that confront environmental managers, and ventures to suggest some solutions.
Download or read book General Government Matters Appropriations for 1957 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 1882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Investigation of Railroads Holding Companies Affiliated Companies and Related Matters Chicago North Western Railway Co and Chicago St Paul Minneapolis Omaha Railway Co Alleghany Corporation and the Chesapeake Corporation written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Planning Matter written by Robert A. Beauregard and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a profession concerned overwhelmingly with the material worldwhether houses, offices, highways, streets, parks, or sewer systemsurban planning has a poor understanding of materiality, perhaps because, as Robert Beauregard says, Plans erase what exists in order to propose what has been imagined. Too often planners position their work as fact-driven, purely administrative, and allegedly devoid of politics, or they fail to grapple adequately with the social and physical complexities of the real world. In this ambitious and provocative book Beauregard sets out to situate urban planning and its ways of knowing, being, and behaving within a new materialist framework that acknowledges the inevitable insufficiency of our representations of reality while also engaging more holistically with the world in all its diversityhuman and nonhuman actors alike."
Download or read book Parliamentary Debates written by New Zealand. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1982-07-30 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book God s Money Matters written by Darren Laudenbach and published by eLectio Publishing. This book was released on with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all know how to lose weight—simply eat less and exercise more . . . right? It sounds like common sense, yet the weight loss industry makes billions of dollars every year on a plethora of products, tools, services, and so on. The same psychology that is required to help people lose weight applies to getting fit financially. It is a matter of spending much less than you earn and investing the rest—so why aren’t we all in good shape financially? In this book, you will be empowered with the knowledge to accomplish seven of the most crucial goals from a financial standpoint and God’s perspective: Proven "mind over money" techniques that work every time The keys to bringing financial peace and freedom into your home (regardless of what you currently earn) How to say “so what, who cares?” to share market crashes What it takes to retire without market or money worries The real truth about tithes and offerings, and who they are for The "money jar" secrets that ensure a successful outcome How to change your financial family tree for generations to come (intergenerational change)
