Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 142897024X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Aviation and the environment : results from a survey of the nation's 50 busiest commercial service airports : report to Representative James L. Oberstar, Ranking Democratic Member, Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, House of Representatives
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 142897024X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Aviation and the Environment
Author: United States. General Accounting OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics, Commercial
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description
Aviation and the Environment
Author: Gerald L. DillinghamPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 9780756708269
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Reviews the key environmental concerns & challenges associated with airports' current operations & future growth & the efforts of major airports & Fed. agencies to address those challenges. Provides a detailed analysis to the survey received from officials at each of the nation's 50 busiest commercial service airports. Noise, water, & air quality issues are the primary environmental concerns & challenges facing airports now & for the foreseeable future. Other issues were wetlands, endangered species, environmental justice, & historical preservation. Also provides insights into the Fed. effort to help airports address their impact on the environ. Charts & tables.
Logan Airside Improvements Planning Project
Author: A Failure of Initiative
Author: United States. Congress. House. Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation for and Response to Hurricane KatrinaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Disaster relief
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Aviation Delays and Consumer Issues
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on AviationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
The Deficit and the Public Interest
Author: Joseph WhitePublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520309731
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Political time is counted not in years, but in issues—the Depression defined the political era of the 1930s just as the Cold War did the 1950s and civil rights the 1960s. In the 1980s, the federal budget loomed as the dominant issue by which all others were considered and has become a concern that catalyzes debate in our nation's capital. In this definitive work, Joseph White and Aaron Wildavsky describe and analyze the struggles over taxing and spending from Carter's last year through the Reagan administration. The battle of the budget is largely about defining the role of the government and its relationship to the people. It involves congressional horse-trading, partisan posturing, and technical tricks that affect billions of dollars. It is also a story of politicians operating within constraints set by both public opinion and political interpretation of economic reality. Though budgeting has always been important, its impact on the national agenda has grown dramatically. Based on documentary sources and extensive interviews with participants, The Deficit and the Public Interest explains how budgeting works so the reader can see what is at stake in seemingly arcane disputes. It also explains the relationship of the budget to the media as well as to party and policy activists and explores the ways in which the deficit represents a crisis of confidence in our institutions, preeminently Congress and the presidency. Along the way, it provides a uniquely comprehensive account of the entire budget problem, exploring Gramm-Rudman, tax reform, and the continuing political gridlock. The authors demonstrate that institutions have performed better than their members and critics believe, and they contend that extreme solutions to the deficit would likely be much worse than the original problems. Redefining the problem as one of reducing interest costs so the deficit becomes manageable, they proffer political advice on how to make this approach politically acceptable, both at home and abroad. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.
Flying the Line
Author: George E. HopkinsPublisher: Nicholson
ISBN: 9780960970810
Category : Air pilots
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
An Introduction to Sustainable Transportation
Author: Preston L. SchillerPublisher: Earthscan
ISBN: 1844076644
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Transportation plays a substantial role in the modern world; it provides tremendous benefits to society, but it also imposes significant economic, social and environmental costs. Sustainable transport planning requires integrating environmental, social, and economic factors in order to develop optimal solutions to our many pressing issues, especially carbon emissions and climate change. This essential multi-authored work reflects a new sustainable transportation planning paradigm. It explores the concepts of sustainable development and sustainable transportation, describes practical techniques for comprehensive evaluation, provides tools for multi-modal transport planning, and presents innovative mobility management solutions to transportation problems. This text reflects a fundamental change in transportation decision making. It focuses on accessibility rather than mobility, emphasizes the need to expand the range of options and impacts considered in analysis, and provides practical tools to allow planners, policy makers and the general public to determine the best solution to the transportation problems facing a community. Featuring extensive international examples and case-studies, textboxes, graphics, recommended reading and end of chapter questions, the authors draw on considerable teaching and researching experience to present an essential, ground-breaking and authoritative text on sustainable transport. Students of various disciplines, planners, policymakers and concerned citizens will find many of its provocative ideas and approaches of considerable value as they engage in the processes of understanding and changing transportation towards greater sustainability.
Governance Networks in Public Administration and Public Policy
Author: Christopher J. KolibaPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351976591
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
What do public administrators and policy analysts have in common? Their work is undertaken within networks formed when different organizations align to accomplish a policy function. This second edition of Governance Networks in Public Administration and Public Policy offers a conceptual framework for describing governance networks and provides a theoretical and empirical foundation in their construction. Based on research and real-life experience, the book highlights the interplay between public actors and policy tools, details the skills and functions of public administrators in the context of networked relationships, and identifies the reforms and trends in governing that lead to governance networks. This practical text makes complex concepts accessible, so that readers can engage in them, apply them, and deepen their understanding of the dynamics unfolding around them. This second edition includes: A dedicated chapter on “complexity friendly” meso-level theories to examine core questions facing governance network analysis. New applications drawn from the authors’ own work in watershed governance, transportation planning, food systems development, electric energy distribution, the regulation of energy, and response and recovery from natural disasters, as well as from unique computational modeling of governance networks. Instructor and student support materials, including PowerPoint® presentations and writable case study templates, may be found on an accompanying eResource page. Governance Networks in Public Administration and Public Policy, 2e is an indispensable core text for graduate and postgraduate courses on governance and collaboration in schools of Public Administration/Management and Public Policy.