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This book presents a unique overview of urban policy conducted by national authorities in the fifteen 'old' member states of the EU. It focuses on recent changes in the development of the larger cities and changes in policymaking by national authorities with respect to urban development. The book provides an up-to-date source of information, and will be of importance to anyone involved in the role and development of European cities as well as the formulation and delivery of associated national policies.
The past thirty years have seen a proliferation of new forms of territorial governance that have come to co-exist with, and complement, formal territorial spaces of government. These governance experiments have resulted in the creation of soft spaces, new geographies with blurred boundaries that eschew existing political-territorial boundaries of elected tiers of government. The emergence of new, non-statutory or informal spaces can be found at multiple levels across Europe, in a variety of circumstances, and with diverse aims and rationales. This book moves beyond theory to examine the practice of soft spaces. It employs an empirical approach to better understand the various practices and r...
This bibliography presents a selection of the European literature on migration and intercultural education published in 1988. 1225 titles have been selected for entry on the basis of their relevance to the overall issue and their availability. They have been classified according to a list of key words referring to the following areas: migration processes, education of migrants, and social and linguistic status of new ethnic communities.
De Nederlandse gezondheidszorg biedt een overzicht van ontwikkelingen en instellingen in de Nederlandse gezondheidszorg. Sinds 1983 zijn er meerdere succesvolle en veelgelezen edities van dit boek uitgebracht. In deze achtste, herziene druk geven de auteurs opnieuw een geactualiseerd en helder beeld van de zeer complexe organisatie van de gezondheidszorg.De Nederlandse gezondheidszorg is het standaardwerk voor studenten, praktijkwerkers, innovatoren, journalisten, beleidsmakers en managers in de gezondheidszorg. Het boek bestaat uit drie delen. Deel 1 gaat over de zorgvraag (overzichten van gezondheid en ziekte in Nederland, zelfzorg, mantelzorg, patiëntenorganisaties). Deel 2 behandelt het zorgaanbod (de diverse zorgvoorzieningen en zorginstellingen). De overheid komt in deel 3 aan bod (bestuur en beleid, verzekeringsstelsel, marktwerking). De overzichtelijke indeling en de uitgebreide registers maken dit boek prettig leesbaar.
This book deals with the state-of-the-art of physical security knowledge and research in the chemical and process industries. Legislation differences between Europe and the USA are investigated, followed by an overview of the how, what and why of contemporary security risk assessment in this particular industrial sector. Innovative solutions such as attractiveness calculations and the use of game theory, advancing the present science of adversarial risk analysis, are discussed. The book further stands up for developing and employing dynamic security risk assessments, for instance based on Bayesian networks, and using OR methods to truly move security forward in the chemical and process industries.