For nation-states, the contexts for developing and implementing policy have become more complex and demanding. Yet policy studies have not fully responded to the challenges and opportunities represented by these developments. Governance literature has drawn attention to a globalising and network-based policy world, but politics and the role of the state have been de-emphasised. This book addresses this imbalance by reconsidering traditional policy-analytic concepts, and re-developing and extending new ones, in a melded approach defined as systemic institutionalism. This links policy with governance and the state and suggests how real-world issues might be substantively addressed.

Reconsidering Policy: Complexity, Governance and the State

Politics & Social Sciences

Crowley, Kate

Head, Brian W.

Kay, Adrian

Stewart, Jenny

Politics & Government

Policy Press

Environmental managers, scientists and activists are accustomed to seeing politics in a negative light. Politics equals self-interest, which means the power structures, assumptions and behaviours which, many would argue, are the reason for our seeming inability to deal with a range of environmental issues, including the toughest questions of salinity, land degradation, and coastal development. The authors of Renegotiating the Environment argue that, rather than seeing the politics of self-interest as an impediment, managers should learn to acknowledge, understand and use politics to generate better outcomes. Better environmental governance will be achieved by a process of evolution rather than by imposition of changes in response to conventional diagnostic and analytical frameworks. But rather than just waiting for this evolution to progress of its own accord, Stewart and Jones argue that it can be pushed forward by understanding of politics that allows for the energy and interests of groups and individuals to be harnessed rather than stifled, in order to achieve more consensual (and hence more sustainable) solutions. For managers, scientists and even for activists, this is a new and different way of approaching environmental problems. Renegotiating the Environment supports its case through detailed case studies and theoretical analysis as well as offering practical guidance for managers interested in implementing governance-based responses to environmental problems.

Renegotiating the Environment: The Power of Politics in Managing the Environment

Jones, Grant

Business & Money

Federation Press

Designed to complement the WJEC Eduqas Film Studies for A Level & AS Student Book, this practical and concise Revision Guide supports you in preparing for your final assessment / Written by an experienced Film Studies teacher and examiner, it is clearly presented making it accessible and easy to use / Uses the most-studied films to enable you to build on your knowledge and understanding of key concepts / Provides in depth study and comparison of key film sequences / Sample annotated responses show how marks are awarded together with finish it' exercises / Questions and activities throughout help improve exam skills and performance / Includes a variety of features including Knowledge boosters', Revision activities', Grade-boosters' and Key questions'.

WJEC Eduqas Film Studies for A Level & AS Revision Guide

Reference

Illuminate Publishing

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