Towards Human Development

Over the past half century, the years in which Richard Jolly has been working as a development economist and practitioner, he led or contributed to some major changes in development thinking. This collection of essays illumi- nates and evaluates some consequences of these changes in approach. Two broad categories of change can be distinguished: first, from an exclusive focus on aggregate inco…

STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT IN GOVERNMENT: EXTENDING THE REFORM MODEL IN NEW ZEALAND

The idea that government can manage itself strategically, in a similar manner to well-performing private sector organisations, has featured prominently in New Zealand’s contributions to PUMA work since 1994. The purpose of this paper is to outline the rationale for a strategic approach to government management, to describe the elements of the approach which we have developed, to assess its im…

Environmental Risk Management in New Zealand – Is There Scope to Apply A Mo…

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Defining Public Relations in New Zealand through its history and practice

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Understanding the effects of user participation in Information Security Risk …

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Approaching Sustainability: Integrated Environmental Management and New Zeala…

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Approaching Sustainability: Integrated Environmental Management and New Zealand’s Resource Management Act

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Transboundary River Basin Management: Addressing Water, Energy and Food Security

About 40 per cent of the world’s population lives in river basins that are shared by countries. These transboundary basins cover almost half of the Earth’s land surface and provide over 60 per cent of global freshwater flow. Transboundary river basin management is something that concerns many of us. Water, energy and food security are central elements for society. Having access to suffic…

COMPUTER NETWORK SECURITY

This paper provides a snapshot of the computer network security industry and addresses specific issues related to network security in public education. The following topics are covered: (1) security policy, including reasons for establishing a policy, risk assessment, areas to consider, audit tools; (2) workstations, including physical security, protecting workstation components, and compu…

Document Management System Security

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REAL Knowledge at NASA

REAL Knowledge at NASA presents a descriptive project practitioner– centered Knowledge Model derived from experience in developing Knowledge Services (KS) at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). It involves an organizational knowledge systems perspective that better negotiates rapid change and accelerated learning in data-rich complex project environments. It discuss…

Beginning Application Lifecycle Management

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) is an area of rapidly growing interest in the development community. ALM is all about how you can manage the entire cycle of building software. With a good ALM process in place, you can develop software faster, more cost effectively, and with greater quality than before. This book shows you what ALM is and why it matters. Modern organizations depend on so…

Enterprise Risk Management for P&C Insurance Companies

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ANTI-TERRORISM PERSONAL SECURITY PLANNING AND INFORMATION BOOKLET

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Enterprise Risk Management: Corporate Mind Set Creates Value

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The opportunity of Mobile Technology for Healthcare in the Developing World

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Safety Management Systems for Airports

Airports are vital national resources. They serve a key role in trans- portation of people and goods and in regional, national, and inter- national commerce. They are where the nation’s aviation system connects with other modes of transportation and where federal respon- sibility for managing and regulating air traffic operations intersects with the role of state and local governments that ow…

Risk management— Principles and guidelines

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Mobile Communications for Medical Care

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Call to Action: Safeguarding the Integrity of Healthcare Quality and Safety S…

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A Guidebook for Safety Risk Management for Airports

Airport personnel must have a clear, consistent understanding of the term hazard. Many air- ports in the early stages of SRM implementation use hazard synonymously with the term risk; however, these are different although related terms. A hazard must exist for the airport to be at risk. A hazard is defined as any existing or potential condition that can lead to injury, illness, or death to peop…

Tobacco Control and Tobacco Farming

Knowledge of the harmful effects of tobacco use has prompted sustained efforts to regulate the industry that produces and markets tobacco products. The last decade has been encouraging with the development of the first global treaty negotiated under the auspices of the World Health Organization (WHO). The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), adopted by the World Health Assembly …

Security Protocols

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The Promise of Small and Medium Enterprises

The world is experiencing significant transformations in its geo-political and economic constitution. The processes of transformation have accelerated over the last decades. A signifi cant part of the growth potential of the world economy nowadays and for the coming decades resides in some fast-developing countries. Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS) have displayed such…

Security Informatics

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THE LABOR POLICY OF THE FREE SOCIETY

I have two objectives in offering this book to the public. I wish to define the essential features of the free society, and to advance certain proposals in the field of labor relations. These two objectives have, as it seems to me, many things in common, not the least of which is their common relevance to those prominent current problems which set our era apart in history. While we speak …

Professional Ethics and Human Values

Professional ethics and Human values’ is a very relevant subject of today’s environment of conflicts and stress in the profession, with obligations to be met by one person in many directions. A formal study will certainly improve one’s ability and judgment and refine one’s behaviour, decisions, and actions in performing the duty to the family, organization, and to the society. Academ…

INFORMATION SECURITY FOR GLOBAL INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURES

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ESSENTIALS of Payroll: Management and Accounting

This book is designed for the accountant who is setting up a payroll system,wants to improve the efficiency of an existing system,or who needs answers to the inevitable variety of compensation,tax,deduc- tion, and record-keeping issues associated with payroll. Each chapter includes an example of how a company has addressed a specific payroll issue,as well as Tips & Techniques that offer guidanc…

Management Information System

Welcome to the information age. Going shopping? As a consumer, you have instant access to millions of pieces of data. With a few clicks of the mouse button, you can find anything from current stock prices and video clips of current movies. You can get product descriptions, pictures, and prices from thousands of companies across India and around the world. Trying to sell services and produ…

Land & Development in Latin America

The quest to eradicate poverty has, for some time, been at the forefront of the policies, programs and operations of development agencies. Poverty eradication has also been the subject of considerable research by academics and policy analysts. At the extraordinary Summit convened by the UN in September 2000, the international community agreed to work together to reduce the incidence of ext…