New Public Administration Titles - UVic Libraries - July 2024

A list of new titles related to Public Administration recently acquired by UVic Libraries

Updated August 22, 2024
University of Victoria Libraries  Justin Harrison, Humanities and Social Sciences Librarian, University of Victoria
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Achieving successful and sustainable project delivery in Africa : how to implement effective and efficient project management practices and policies
Okereke, Chima
Ebook
African nations have an underdeveloped industrial and economic base such as their water supply, electrical systems, roads, railways, etc. Massive funding is required to build each of these basic services to the levels of developed nations - funding which they do not have. Many African companies...
The Capability Approach and the Sustainable Development Goals : Inter/Multi/Trans Disciplinary Perspectives
Ikejiaku, Brian Vincent.
Ebook
Community Development Approaches to Improving Public Health
Ogilvie, Robert S.
Ebook
As the rates of chronic diseases, like diabetes, asthma and obesity skyrocket, research is showing that the built environment - the way our cities and towns are developed - contributes to the epidemic rates of these diseases. It is unlikely that those who plannednbsp;and developed these places...
Community Leadership Development : A Compendium of Theory, Research, and Application
Brennan, Mark A.
Ebook
The development of leadership capacities addresses a vital and continuing need in communities and organizations as they attempt to adapt to a wide range of social, economic, environmental, and political changes. Leadership development activities that focus on building new skills and ...
Cultivating a Sustainable Mindset in Finance : Mobilising the Capital Needed to Combat Climate Change
Guyatt, Danyelle.
Ebook
Democracy and public policy in the post-covid-19 world : choices and outcomes
Basu, Rumki
Ebook
After the COVID-19 disaster, 'old' frailties and inadequacies in agriculture and industrial productive capacities, in public health and transport systems have evinced sharply in the open, reopening the debates over public policy reforms as never before. This volume: Studies...
Digital Media, Denunciation and Shaming : The Court of Public Opinion
Trottier, Daniel.
Ebook
Digital Technologies for Sustainable Futures : Promises and Pitfalls
Ebook
Disaster Management and Environmental Sustainability
Kumar, Sanjay.
Ebook
Overuse of natural resources results in environmental deterioration, lowering the effectiveness of important ecosystem services, such as the mitigation of floods and landslides. This leads to a greater risk of disaster and, in turn, natural hazards that can further deteriorate the environment....
Dissonant Public Spheres : Communication, Campaigns and Crises
Ebook
Environmental pollution, biodiversity, and sustainable development : issues and remediation
Nangyal, Hasnain
Ebook
Environmental Pollution, Biodiversity, and Sustainable Development: Issues and Remediation provides an extensive summary of biodiversity. It is the result of the assistance of environmentalists, researchers, policy experts, and academicians from across the globe sharing their research and...
Everyday Agri-Environmental Governance : The Emergence of Sustainability Through Assemblage Thinking
Forney, Jérémie.
Ebook
For the Public Good
Berdahl
Ebook
Arts graduate education is uniquely positioned to deliver many of the public good needs of contemporary Canada. For the Public Good argues, however, that graduate programs must fundamentally change if they are to achieve this potential. Drawing on deep experience and research, the authors outline...
Global Dreams Class, Gender, and Public Space in Cosmopolitan Cairo
Koning, Anouk de.
Ebook
At the start of the twenty-first century, Cairo's cityscape has acquired a spectacular global touch. Its luxurious five-star hotels, high-rise office buildings, immaculately clean malls, and swanky coffee shops serving café latte and caesar salad, along with the budding gated communities in the city...
Handbook of Public Participation in Impact Assessment
Paper Book
Handbook of Social Infrastructure : Conceptual and Empirical Research Perspectives
Renner, Anna-Theresa.
Paper Book
Handbook on Climate Change and Environmental Governance in China
Paper Book
Handbook on Public Policy and Artificial Intelligence
Paper Book
History of PR in Canada : An Annotated Bibliography and Critical Historiography of Public Relations Research in Canada
Braun, Sandra L.
Ebook
Linköping Studies in Arts and Science, Volume 607 : Making Equality Work: Ambiguities, Conflicts and Change Agents in the Implementation of Equality Policies in Public Sector Organisations
Callerstig, Anne-Charlott
Paper Book
Linköping Studies in Arts and Science, Volume 607 : Making Equality Work: Ambiguities, Conflicts and Change Agents in the Implementation of Equality Policies in Public Sector Organisations
Callerstig, Anne-Charlott
Paper Book
Linköping Studies in Arts and Science, Volume 607 : Making Equality Work: Ambiguities, Conflicts and Change Agents in the Implementation of Equality Policies in Public Sector Organisations
Callerstig, Anne-Charlott
Paper Book
Management and the sustainability paradox : reconnecting the human chain
Wasieleski, David M.
Ebook
Management and the Sustainability Paradox is about how humans became disconnected from their ecological environment throughout evolutionary history. Begining with the premise that people have competing innate, natural drives linked to survival. Survival can be thought of in the context of long...
Migrant and Refugee Integration in Mexico : Governance, Civil Society, and Public Opinion
Cárdenas-Alaminos, Nuty.
Ebook
Planning Sustainable and Resilient Food Systems : From Soil to Soil
Freedgood, Julia
Ebook
Polar and Climate Change Education : Citizen Science and Sustainability
Arruda, Gisele.
Ebook
Power in Megaproject Decision-Making : A Governmentality Approach
Siva, Jessica Pooi Sun.
Ebook
The Pragmatics of Governmental Discourse : Resilience, Sustainability and Wellbeing
Gupta, Ayan-Yue.
Ebook
This book presents a novel methodological framework for analysing governmental discourse. It involves combining pragmatist perspectives on language with computational sociolinguistics and large language models (LLMs). The first half discusses traditional critical approaches to...
Preventing food losses and waste to achieve food security and sustainability
Yahia, Elhadi
Ebook
'We at Too Good To Go, found the research presented immensely insightful as we continue to build awareness raising campaigns with the aim of changing behaviours.' Too Good To Go This book provides a comprehensive review of the causes and prevention of food losses...
Public private partnership contracts : the Middle East and North Africa
Ismail, Mohamed A. M.
Ebook
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the law surrounding PPPs in the Middle East and North African region. The significance of liberalised and integrated Public Private Partnership Contracts as an essential component of the world legal and policy order is well documented. The...
Public relations crisis communication : a new model
Anderson-Meli, Lisa
Ebook
This book explores the definition, nature and context of public relations crises; it also examines and defines the main elements of public relations crises and positions it in the context of the current communication sphere. Public Relations Crisis Communication: A New Model investigates...
Public Relations for Public Health and Social Good
Ebook
Public relations history : theory, practice and profession
Myers, Cayce
Ebook
This book presents a unique overview of public relations history, tracing the development of the profession and its practices in a variety of sectors, ranging from politics, education, social movements, and corporate communication to entertainment. Author Cayce Myers examines the...
Public relations, branding and authenticity : brand communications in the digital age
Rees, Sian (Associate professor)
Ebook
Public Relations, Branding and Authenticity: Brand Communications in the Digital Age explores the role of PR and branding in society by considering the notion of authentic communications within the context of an emerging digital media environment. This qualitative analysis explores the...
Public Service Exemplars : A Finer Spirit of Hope and Achievement
Martinez, J. Michael
Ebook
Public-Private Partnerships in European Union Law and Member States
Vojnovic, Jugoslava.
Ebook
The Routledge handbook of designing public spaces for young people : processes, practices and policies for youth inclusion
Loebach, Janet
Ebook
The Routledge Handbook of Designing Public Spaces for Young People is a thorough and practical resource for all who wish to influence policy and design decisions in order to increase young people's access to and use of public spaces, as well as their role in design and decision-making processes.<...
Solving public problems : a practical guide to fix our government and change our world
Noveck, Beth Simone
Ebook
Striding with Economic Giants : Business and Public Policy Lessons from Nobel Laureates
Simpson, David.
Ebook
Striding explores the modernization process by outlining the economics of agriculture, growth theories of economic development, and problems with growth. During the last century, policy makers and the public acquired a considerable interest in economics. As a result, this...
Sustainability and innovation : the next global industrial revolution
El-Haggar, Salah M.
Paper Book
One of the most urgent problems facing the world today is environmental sustainability. Current practices of pollution control, waste treatment, and environmental protection are not only hugely expensive and a burden on development but also unsustainable in the long run for their steady depletion of...
Systems Analysis in Public Policy A Critique, Revised Edition
Hoos, Ida R.
Ebook
Systems analysis, which is also called cost/benefit analysis, the planning-programming-budgeting system, risk analysis, and technology assessment, has become the major planning and policy tool of government at all levels. Indeed, it is still gathering momentum in addressing the uncertainties...
Teaching Public Relations: Principles and Practices for Effective Learning
Peter M. Smudde
Ebook
Third Sector, Social Enterprise and Public Service Delivery
Powell, Madeline
Ebook
Tourism, Global Crises and Justice : Tourism Transition to a More Just and Sustainable Future
Ebook
Undergraduate public affairs education : building the next generation of public and nonprofit administrators
Hamidullah, Madinah F.
Ebook
Public affairs and nonprofit program administrators and directors interested in (or tasked with) implementing undergraduate programs require a resource where they can find information for recruiting and retaining the next wave of public and nonprofit workers.　 While similar to...
Understanding the Public Sector in Egyptian Cinema : A State Venture
Maatouk, Tamara Chahine
Ebook
Urban experience and design : contemporary perspectives on improving the public realm
Sussman, Ann
Ebook
Embracing a biological and evolutionary perspective to explain the human experience of place, Urban Experience and Design explores how cognitive science and biometric tools provide an evidence-based foundation for architecture and planning. Aiming to promote the creation of a healthier and...
Water Pricing And Public-private Partnership
Biswas, Asit.
Ebook
There is no question that water pricing and public-private partnership can improve water management practices in the future. However, this concept is neither the cure-all many proponents argue, nor the disaster its opponents forecast. Providing a comprehensive and objective assessment of what...
Weak States, Vulnerable Governments, and Regional Cooperation
Feraru, Atena Ştefania
Paper Book
War, famine, poverty, organized crime, environmental catastrophes, refugees, epidemics and pandemics, modern slavery - all these affect people in the non-Western world to an increasingly disproportionate extent. It is also where wealthy governments wield economic leverage and military force to...
A WHO Public Health Approach to Ending AIDS in the Global South : Lessons for NCD Control and Universal Health Coverage
Gilks, Charles F.
Ebook

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