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There is a constant drive for greater specialization when it comes to environmental problems. This book provides stakeholders from various backgrounds with the ability to place environmental problems and solutions within a common framework from which decisions can be made. It focuses on considerations from three primary areas of influence on environmental decision making: science, economics, and values. It presents the questions, issues, and problems that need to be addressed by today's environmental specialists. The text also includes case studies to illustrate the analytical reasoning required to employ contextually sound environmental decision-making.

This book supplements human resources theory with instructional case studies based upon actual events. The authors introduce key human resource issues with clear, concise language and provide techniques to address these issues in a real-world setting. The case studies cover key human resource issues including legal and liability issues, recruiting and hiring, employee performance, reward and discipline issues, retention, termination, workplace violence, mentorship, motivation and managing through transitions. The book is structured to encourage group discussions and problem-solving opportunities in the classroom and function as a reference and training tool for managers and human resource professionals working in the public sector.

Demonstrating both effective and ineffective means of collaboration, this text shows the readers that good collaboration is rarely an accident; that it requires a conceptual framework, recruitment of participants, active leadership, communication, and the sharing of investment and risk, as well as reward and accountability.

Explains the transformation in community revitalization from market based incentives to mixed strategies of public sector learning, partnerships, and community capacity. This book chronicles the struggle of local revitalization as organizers move from trial and error to effective revitalization strategies bringing about.

In order to implement an integrated cycle of assessment, planning, and improvement, government agencies need a framework for organizational assessment that speaks to their unique needs. This book provides those who manage or work in government with an understanding of and a methodology for assessment.

Ethical, effective, and equitable public services have been shown to inspire public trust, facilitating the collaborative partnership that must exist between public servants and citizens to achieve good governance. This volume examines how to identify, assess and resolve the ethical issues and dilemmas that often confront those who govern.

Focusing on transformation at the federal, state, and local levels, this book reflects the changes in government and nonprofit organizations. Suitable for administrators of public organizations, it includes a field-tested survey for diagnosing disequilibrium in organization as a first step in a transformational change initiative.

Examines why economic growth during the late twentieth century was marked by the dramatic rise of some communities and the equally stunning demise of others. This book identifies the key components of sustained economic growth as well as the policies, actions, and inactions that are precursors to the decline of local economies.