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A System dynamics model to facilitate public understanding of water management options in Las Vegas, Nevada

Stave, Krystyna Anne - 2003

Water managers increasingly are faced with the challenge of building public or stakeholder support for resource management strategies. Building support requires raising stakeholder awareness of resource problems and understanding about the consequences of different policy options. One approach...

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Towards more inclusive long-term bulk water resource management

de Lange, Willem J.; Kleynhans, T.E. - 2007

Fresh water resources provide a platform for complex and often emotional issues to develop, particularly in resource scarcity situations. Bulk water infrastructure contains elements of a public good and proved vulnerable to failures in market and government driven allocation strategies. Common...

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Innovation in local government risk financing: lessons from the UK and Nordic experiences

Hood, John; Stein, William; Valkama, Pekka - 2010

-financing. Case studies cover the Nordic countries, UK, Spain, Slovenia, Slovakia, Turkey and South Korea and provide detailed 'how …

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Union strategies in representing ‘new’ workers : the comparative case of UK and Australian retail unions

Lynch, Samantha; Pyman, Amanda; Bailey, Janis; Price, … - 2009

representation in the retail industry in the UK and Australia. In both countries, the retail industry is a major employer and is one … largest and largest unions in the UK and Australia respectively. However, despite this seeming numerical strength in … the UK, variable levels of union recognition which inhibit representation (Broadbridge 2002; Henley 2006; Lynch 2005; Roan …

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Power, policy networks and planning: the involvement of major grocery retailers in the formulation of planning policy guidance note 6 since 1988

Pal, John W.; Bennison, David J.; Clarke, Ian; Byrom, John - 2001

research is available online at informaworldTM at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/09593969.asp … development in the UK grocery sector since 1988 as a backdrop to an analysis of the form of policy networks operating at the …

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The British North Sea: The Importance Of And Factors Affecting Tax Revenue From Oil Production

Hill, Mark T 1974- - 2003

The oil industry is the richest and most influential industry in the world. The industry has moved the fates of nations. Oil is required to fight wars and exert power, and the restriction of this energy source is paramount to the restriction of movement, control, and in the end, power....

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Antecedents of conflict in marketing's cross-functional relationship with sales

Dawes, Philip L.; Massey, Graham R. - 2005

in the full sample and in the two sampled countries (UK and Australia). Design/methodology/approach – The study draws on … sales managers in the UK and Australia. Findings – Overall, the study finds that there was a surprisingly low level of …

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An extended model of the Antecedents and Consequences of Consumer Satisfaction for Hospitality Services

Ekinci, Yuksel; Dawes, Philip L.; Massey, Graham R. - 2008

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of self-congruence on consumer satisfaction with services and to develop and test a conceptual model of the antecedents and consequences of consumer satisfaction in the hospitality industry. Design/methodology/approach – The...

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The effective articulation of risk-based compliance in banks

Haynes, Andrew - 2005

The concept of compliance has developed over recent years. Gone are the days when satisfactory compliance in a bank consisted of making sure that a set of rules provided by a regulator had been met and each could be 'ticked off' and that appropriate returns had been sent in. Now the accepted...

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We are not all Terrorists: UK Based Iranians, Consumption Practices and the ‘Torn’ Self.

Jafari, Aliakbar; Goulding, Christina - 2008

This paper presents an exploratory study of the consumption practices of UK-based young Iranians. Based on a series of … tensions in their sociocultural settings, both in Iran and in the UK. We describe how in a theocratic state individuals use …

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