Real People Real Crises
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Real People Real Crises
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Author : Steve Wilson
language : en
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Release Date : 2002-10-01
Real People Real Crises written by Steve Wilson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-10-01 with Business & Economics categories.
Real People Real Crises
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Author : Steve Wilson
language : en
Publisher: OakHill Press
Release Date : 2002
Real People Real Crises written by Steve Wilson and has been published by OakHill Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Business & Economics categories.
Crisis Of The Real
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Author : Andy Grundberg
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Crisis Of The Real written by Andy Grundberg and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Photography categories.
... His interpretations and critical views have helped shpae a broad understanding of photography's complex roles in art and in the media. This volume is the first compilation of his work.
Crisis Leadership Now A Real World Guide To Preparing For Threats Disaster Sabotage And Scandal
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Author : Laurence Barton
language : en
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Release Date : 2008-01-10
Crisis Leadership Now A Real World Guide To Preparing For Threats Disaster Sabotage And Scandal written by Laurence Barton and has been published by McGraw Hill Professional this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-10 with Business & Economics categories.
Why do some managers shine during a high-level crisis while others stumble? Those who have an action plan in place are the ones who can react quickly, manage rumors, and respond to victims and stakeholders sincerely and adequately while keeping their organization afloat. Leading crisis management expert Laurence Barton has spent more than two decades consulting with top companies on how to anticipate and respond to workplace threats and tragedies. In Crisis Leadership Now he offers concrete solutions for managing disruptive events-from industrial accidents and acts of violence to embezzlement, product recalls, and terrorism. Barton takes you through his journey of advising senior executives on crisis events and examines: The characteristics that define a true crisis Proven strategies to help you understand and respond to early warning signals Ways to mitigate threatening situations How to effectively communicate your decisions in a timely manner to employees, shareholders, customers, and other constituencies In this forward-looking guide, Barton applies his corporate insider's insight to numerous case studies, demonstrating how such catastrophes happen to real companies and real people every day. These studies form a framework for building crisis management thinking into your company's strategic toolbox. Anticipating all forms of trouble, advising senior management and boards of directors about potential events, and devising a business recovery plan will allow your organization to rebound should tragedy strike. Barton has also created an indispensable sample crisis management plan, and includes detailed templates for addressing a wide spectrum of incidents and threats. Arming you with an arsenal of strategies, tools, and know-how, Crisis Leadership Now ensures that your company's leaders will demonstrate confidence and implement solutions in the midst of chaos.
Capitalism
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Author : Anwar Shaikh
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016-01-15
Capitalism written by Anwar Shaikh and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-15 with Business & Economics categories.
Orthodox economics operates within a hypothesized world of perfect competition in which perfect consumers and firms act to bring about supposedly optimal outcomes. The discrepancies between this model and the reality it claims to address are then attributed to particular imperfections in reality itself. Most heterodox economists seize on this fact and insist that the world is characterized by imperfect competition. But this only ties them to the notion of perfect competition, which remains as their point of departure and base of comparison. There is no imperfection without perfection. In Capitalism, Anwar Shaikh takes a different approach. He demonstrates that most of the central propositions of economic analysis can be derived without any reference to standard devices such as hyperrationality, optimization, perfect competition, perfect information, representative agents, or so-called rational expectations. This perspective allows him to look afresh at virtually all the elements of economic analysis: the laws of demand and supply, the determination of wage and profit rates, technological change, relative prices, interest rates, bond and equity prices, exchange rates, terms and balance of trade, growth, unemployment, inflation, and long booms culminating in recurrent general crises. In every case, Shaikh's innovative theory is applied to modern empirical patterns and contrasted with neoclassical, Keynesian, and Post-Keynesian approaches to the same issues. Shaikh's object of analysis is the economics of capitalism, and he explores the subject in this expansive light. This is how the classical economists, as well as Keynes and Kalecki, approached the issue. Anyone interested in capitalism and economics in general can gain a wealth of knowledge from this ground-breaking text.
Faith In A Time Of Crisis
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Author : Vaughan Roberts
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-05-01
Faith In A Time Of Crisis written by Vaughan Roberts and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-01 with categories.
Humantruth
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Author : John Bapty Oates
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010-10-20
Humantruth written by John Bapty Oates and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-20 with Science categories.
Produced here in two low-cost paperback volumes, John Bapty Oates' challenging insights into the human condition, and specifically, the REAL reasons behind the current global crises, is a must-read for any serious student of human nature, sociology or economics. Topics covered include the evolution of human consciousness; the rise of a global economy; and the many dangers and pitfalls that await us as a species if we cannot - or will not - listen with real urgency, to the lessons that life places before us. A true heavyweight amongst contemporary philosophical works.
When Leaders Face Personal Crisis
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Author : Gill Robinson Hickman
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-03-19
When Leaders Face Personal Crisis written by Gill Robinson Hickman and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-19 with Psychology categories.
This book examines a relatively unexplored area of leadership research – personal aspects of leadership – by considering the impact of leaders navigating their own personal crises on their relationships with teams, peers, and supervisors. Through original research as well as an integrative review of the literature, Hickman and Knouse focus on the "leader-as-person in crisis," including the real-life personal crises and experiences of leaders. This important volume offers a detailed and thoughtful description of intersecting factors that contribute to the ways in which leaders experience and cope with personal crises to spur additional research attention to this neglected area. This book also offers current and prospective leaders advice and direction on effectively navigating personal crises.
The Real Environmental Crisis
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Author : Jack M. Hollander
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2004-08-09
The Real Environmental Crisis written by Jack M. Hollander and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-08-09 with Business & Economics categories.
"Jack Hollander has written a lucid and path-breaking book. He is completely convincing in his thesis that it is poverty we should be addressing, both for the environment and for moral reasons, and that science, technology, markets, and affluence are the friends of the environment and poverty is the enemy. The book is of the highest scholarship and gets the big picture right; the arguments on both sides are addressed with clear thinking and clear prose. Though he is an eminent scientist, Hollander has a wonderful talent for keeping technical jargon to a minimum yet making the essence of technical arguments clear. Both the intelligent layman and the environmental scientist will learn much from this book. I did, and enjoyed the book immensely."—Bruce Ames, Former Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Center, University of California, Berkeley "This book is a much-needed reminder that declining environmental integrity is not—and certainly need not be—an inexorable attribute of economic progress. Throughout the book the author dispels a number of closely related myths, such as that of steadily increasing scarcity of energy resources. Hollander provides a corrective to the simplistic and unbalanced treatment of environmental and natural resource topics one encounters all too often in the media and in public debate."—Joel Darmstadter, Resources for the Future; editor, Global Development and the Environment: Perspectives on Sustainability "This work is extremely important and makes a major contribution to the debate and decision-making surrounding efforts to eradicate poverty and protect the environment. In a uniquely balanced manner, Hollander adds to the general understanding of how poverty and wealth contribute to sustainable management of natural resources."—Per Pinstrup-Andersen, author of Seeds of Contention: World Hunger and the Global Controversy over GM Crops "Jack Hollander puts forth two simple hypotheses. The first, explicit, is that environmental sustainability depends on extending prosperity to the developing world. The second, implicit, is that the sustainability of environmentalism depends on transparent and objective science. Both are well defended in Hollander's clear, well researched and timely book."—Richard S. Lindzen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Human Tide The Real Migration Crisis
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Author : Christian Aid (Londres).
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Human Tide The Real Migration Crisis written by Christian Aid (Londres). and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with categories.
A world struggling to cope with the largest enforced movement of people in its history. Tens of millions displaced, living in parlous conditions - their very futures threatened by the enormity of the problem. That was the dire situation at the end of the Second World War, and Christian Aid - known at the time as Christian Reconstruction in Europe - was founded to help address it. Then, 50 years ago, came the first Christian Aid Week - a mass mobilisation of supporters to raise funds for the continuing refugee crisis in Europe and beyond. The roots of the organisation run deep into the tragedy of forced migration. So it is with some authority that we now issue a stark warning about accelerating rates of displacement in the 21st century. As the effects of climate change join and exacerbate the conflicts, natural disasters and development projects that drive displacement, we fear that an emerging migration crisis will spiral out of control. Unless urgent action is taken, it threatens to dwarf even that faced by the war-ravaged world all those decades ago. Christian Aid predicts that, on current trends, a further 1 billion people will be forced from their homes between now and 2050. We believe forced migration is the most urgent threat facing poor people in developing countries. The time for action is now. The issue of migration is currently riding high on the domestic political agenda. Media attention here is focused on economic migrants and those seeking political asylum in Britain and Ireland, with debate centering on whether these people bring benefits or dangers. This report is not about those issues. For the real crisis is emerging a long way away, and largely unnoticed. It really is not about us. Principally, it involves some 155 million men, women and children who have had no choice but to flee their homes and seek refuge elsewhere in their own countries. They are, in the flat jargon of international classifcation,"internally displaced persons", or "IDPs". Millions are escaping war and ethnic persecution, and millions more have literally had their homes swept away by the increasing number of natural disasters. A staggering number of people are being pushed aside to make way for dams, roads and other large-scale development projects. Most are in the world's poorest countries, often among their poorest people. Their already harsh lives are made worse by being forced to move, sometimes repeatedly. Unlike the relatively small numbers of dictionary-de? nition "refugees", who have struggled across a border to escape persecution, they are also largely voiceless. They have no status or protection under international law and no single international agency is responsible for their welfare. They are nobody's problem, apart from their own governments'. And those governments are often responsible for these people's plight in the first place. The number of IDPs is expected to rise dramatically in the coming decades. And those already displaced look likely to be joined by at least equal numbers of people forced from their homes because of climate change. The impact of climate change is the great, and frightening, unknown in this equation. Existing estimates of its potential to displace people are more than a decade old and are widely disputed. Only now is serious academic attention being devoted to calculating the scale of this new human tide. Given the amount of work and column inches devoted in recent years to the economic implications of global warming, including the landmark Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, commissioned by the UK government, this may seem inconceivable - even shameful. But it is the case. Stern, for example, merely quotes the old figures. Cynics may conclude that this lack of focus, while popular chatter centres on threats to our foreign holidays and big cars, is because the problem is perceived as being a long way away. It really is not about us. For the people of the developing world, however, mass migration forced by climate change could prove to be a further crushing blow. In our report, The Climate of Poverty, published a year ago, Christian Aid highlighted how the process of climate change was already affecting poor populations. It also predicted how the threat of increasing floods, disease and famine sparked by climate change could nullify efforts to secure meaningful and sustainable development in poor countries. At worst, the report said, these ravages could send the real progress that has already been achieved "spinning into reverse". To add many more millions of uprooted people to this mix makes an already apocalyptic picture potentially even more devastating. The danger is that this new forced migration will fuel existing con? icts and generate new ones in the areas of the world - the poorest - where resources are most scarce. Movement on this scale has the potential to de-stabilise whole regions where increasingly desperate populations compete for dwindling food and water. While mired in political complexity, the genesis of the appalling conflict in Darfur has been in part attributed to this very downward spiral. Let Darfur stand as the starkest of warnings about what the future could bring. This scenario has not escaped the attention of military planners.[...] The case studies in this report spell out in human detail how major internal migration crises, caused by conflict, have already developed in Sudan, in Uganda and in Sri Lanka. The main studies that follow seek to highlight equally devastating situations that are still developing with far less attention from the world's media or the wider international community. They illustrate how, over time, internal displacements with their roots in con?ict can mutate into disputes over land and other economic resources - or hard cash. In all cases, very few people get to go home. Colombia is second only to Sudan for its number of IDPs, living in makeshift camps or in crowded slums on the fringes of the capital, Bogotá. Originally forced to move by guerrillas and militias locked in a decades-long civil war, this largely rural population is now seeing its land grabbed to make way for lucrative plantations. Increasingly, this is to produce palm oil - a substance in high demand and found in many products in the rich world's shopping baskets. In Burma, ethnic minority groups, including the Karen, have also been subject to decades of violence, displacement and persecution. Their government is now using the space created by their displacment to plan dams and other large-scale developments, including palm oil plantations, leading to further, vicious forced displacement. These are just extreme examples of the "development displacement" that experts say accounts for up to 105 million displaced people at any given time. Once again, the onset of climate change is set to further swell these numbers. As the pressure to cut CO2 emissions in rich countries grows, a solution is being sought by substituting biofuels for oil - particularly by the US government - as a way to keep cars and trucks running. The problem is that this potential bonanza for biofuel producers will require vast tracts of land for plantations, leading to the forced ejection of yet more peasant farmers. In Mali, the threat from climate change is more immediate. The country lies in the Sahel belt of semi-arid land that straddles sub-Saharan Africa and is one of the areas of the world most vulnerable to global warming. Already farmers here are now finding it impossible to live off the land in the way they have done for centuries. Erratic and declining levels of rainfall mean dramatically declining crop yields - and people have to move in order to earn the money to feed their families. Increasing numbers are trying to get to Europe for this purpose. And always it should be remembered that people in poor countries such as Mali have contributed least to global warming and to the climate change that now threatens their existence. [...] So what can be done? In the aftermath of the Second World War, the international community responded with vision and imagination to tackle what must have seemed like an intractable problem. That same kind of vision is needed now to prevent the latest migration crisis from spiralling out of control. Christian Aid does not pretend to have all the answers, but the solution must start with an overhaul of the current UN system for dealing, or not dealing, with internally displacedpeople. Together with our partner organisations, we work closely with UN agencies in response to humanitarian shocks implementing their programmes to get aid through to those who need it most. So we know the challenges faced. But these millions of people cannot be left without a voice. The growing problem of displacement resulting from largescale development programmes must also be addressed. At present there is not even agreement about whether people forced from their homes to make way for dams or roads are covered by existing codes of conduct. Rich countries of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) have had their own guidelines on the impact of their funding of development projects for the past ten years. But it is simply not known whether they are effective or not. To address the looming crisis of climate change, the polluter must pay. Governments of rich states, such as the UK, must accept their countries' responsibility for the growing harm and suffering that climate change will bring to developing countries and pay to alleviate it. A US$100 billion-a-year fund is needed to help poor people adapt to changing weather patterns so that they can stay in their own homes. The alternative, as this report seeks to highlight, is a desperate situation that could destabilise whole regions plunging them further into poverty and conflict. We hope that on its next big anniversary Christian Aid will be able to celebrate its part in a positive effort to overcome these problems, not to commemorate another forced migration disaster.