Organizations turn to multistakeholder partnerships (MSPs) to meet challenges that they cannot handle alone. By tapping the resources of diverse stakeholders, MSPs develop the capability to address complex issues and problems, such as health care delivery, poverty, human rights, watershed management, education, sustainability, and innovation. This book provides a comprehensive understanding of MSPs, why they are needed, the challenges partners face in working together and how to design them effectively. Through the process of collaboration partners combine their differing strengths, vantage points and expertise to craft innovative responses to pressing societal concerns. The book offers valuable advice for leaders about how to design and scale up effective partnerships and how to address potential obstacles that partners may face. Drawing on three comprehensive cases and countless shorter examples from around the world, the book offers both practical advice for organization embarking on an MSP as well as a theoretical understanding of how partnerships function. Using an institutional theory lens, it explains how partnerships can effect change in institutional fields by reducing turbulence and negotiating a common set of norms and routines to govern partners' future interactions within the field of concern.

Collaborating for Our Future: Multistakeholder Partnerships for Solving Complex Problems

Business & Money

Gray, Barbara

Purdy, Jill

Management & Leadership

Oxford University Press

Care of the Elderly Mentally Infirm

Politics & Social Sciences

Isaacs, Bernard

Politics & Government

Taylor & Francis Books Ltd

The only book of its kind to provide an overview of sustainable street design Today, society is moving toward a more sustainable way of life, with cities everywhere aspiring to become high-quality places to live, work, and play. Streets are fundamental to this shift. They define our system of movement, create connections between places, and offer opportunities to reconnect to natural systems. There is an increasing realization that the right-of-way is a critical and under-recognized resource for transformation, with new models being tested to create a better public realm, support balanced transportation options, and provide sustainable solutions for stormwater and landscaping. Living Streets provides practical guidance on the complete street approach to sustainable and community-minded street use and design. Written by an interdisciplinary team of authors, the book brings insights and experience from urban planning, transportation planning, and civil engineering perspectives. It includes examples from many completed street design projects from around the world, an overview of the design and policy tools that have been successful, and guidance to help get past the predictable obstacles to implementation: Who makes decisions in the right-of-way? Who takes responsibility? How can regulations be changed to allow better use of the right-of-way? Living Streets informs you of the benefits of creating streets that are healthier, more pleasant parts of life: <ul>
<li>Thoughtful planning of the location, uses, and textures of the spaces in which we live encourages people to use public space more often, be more active, and possibly live healthier lives.</li> <li>A walkable community makes life easier and more pleasant for everyone, especially for vulnerable populations within the larger community whose transportation limitations reduce access to jobs, healthy food, health care, recreation, and social interaction.</li> <li>Streets present opportunities to improve the natural environment while adding to neighborhood character, offering beauty, providing shade, and improving air quality.</li> </ul>
If you're an urban planner, designer, transportation engineer, or civil engineer, Living Streets is the ultimate guide for the creation of more humane streetscapes that connect neighborhoods and inspire people.

Living Streets: Strategies for Crafting Public Space

Arts & Photography

Bain, Lesley

Rodgers, Dave

Architecture

wiley

Provides ideas and tactics to tackle difficult situations in the classroom; deal with stress and manage time more efficiently; build and sustain successful relationships with colleagues; create positive learning environments; develop or change careers, and more.

Teacher's Survival Guide 2nd Edition

Education & Teaching

Thody, Angela

Bowden, Derek

Schools & Teaching

Bloomsbury Academic

Life's Instruction Book for Women

Self-Help

Personal Transformation

Barbara Gray Proactives

Come Grow With Me (Life's Instruction Book for Women)

Relationships

SUCCESS THROUGH SPIRITUALITY FOR WOMEN YOU HAVE A GIFT AND ARE A GIFT OF GOD Do you want to live a successful life, to be all that you are meant to be, to find and fulfill your purpose in life? Success Through Spirituality For Women discusses the strong women in history who persevered and fought for the freedom to fulfill their heart's desire. The book urges women to find the truth about their strengths and abilities. Women must stop reflecting and reacting to the negative attributes superimposed by cultural, political, and economic beliefs. Success in all areas of life is based upon living according to the spiritual laws written in the Bible. By choosing to shed the false self and reveal the true self, the spiritual woman becomes reconnected with the Spirit of God. Her actions and thinking are no longer ego driven. She is able to reject and remove fears and doubts that have blocked her creativity, purposefulness, and return to a life of love. She becomes non-judgmental of self and others and the events of life. She gives up the disillusional life of false expectations and trying to control life. She seeks a life reconnected with the Spirit of God, one of wholeness, joy, healing and responsibility. She knows that we live in an abundant universe and that we are able to live abundant lives that we choose. The spiritual laws of the Bible encourage us to seek, to knock and to find. They also say that we are to bear fruit, give away our blessings, and to be in service to others. And the wonder of this unselfish life is that our sending out brings greater blessings in return. We become successful by rejecting limited thinking and false perceptions, and opening our minds to achieve creative and inspired thinking. We choose to embrace a new life of changes, expandedness, and universal thinking.

Success Through Spirituality for Women

Energy Management: How To Increase Your Positive Energies

Health, Fitness & Dieting

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