Chapter 1. The contexts of agricultural policies in the United States of America: Perspectives for the future -- Chapter 2. Frameworks of agricultural policies in Brazil: Interrelationships with the dynamics of sustainable development -- Chapter 3. The main agricultural policy instruments in...

The conventional approach to risk communication, based on a centralized and controlled model, has led to blatant failures in the management of recent safety related events. In parallel, several cases have proved that actors not thought of as risk governance or safety management contributors may...

The book reflects on how intelligent urban regeneration can be an extraordinary driver of sustainable social and economic progress. It provides a friendly, evergreen and flexible thinking methodology that can serve as a reference guide to address a wide range of initiatives creating the...

1 Uncertainty: new perspectives, questions and proposals, by Gilles Motet -- 2 Uncertainty - its ontological status and relation to safety, by Ove Njå, Øivind Solberg & Geir Sverre Braut -- 3 A conceptual foundation for assessing and managing risk, surprises and black swans, by Terje Aven -- 4...

Introduction -- Defining corporate environmental strategy -- Qualitative assessments of corporate environmental strategy -- The dimensions of corporate environmental strategy -- Environmental performance and eco-efficiency -- Environmental disclosure -- Environmental accounting -- Environmental...

Operations Management: Past, Current and Future -- Two-stage Interval Best-Worst Method for Weighting: Prioritization of Influential Factors of Airport Competitiveness -- 2-tupe DEMATEL for Complex Interrelationships Analysis: Barriers Identification, Cause-Effect Analysis and Policy...

Chapter 1: Introduction to innovation activities -- Chapter 2: The role of SME’s in innovation activities -- Chapter 3: Overview of innovation activities in Southeast Asia -- Chapter 4: From Linear model to Chain Linked model of innovation in reaching firm characteristics that facilitate and...

This multidisciplinary book brings together medical, management, and architectural disciplines in order to formulate new approaches to the programming, planning, and design of healthcare facilities that will improve the quality of healthcare systems in rapidly developing countries, respecting...