Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology & Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design 
Fostering Industry-Initiated Environmental Protection Efforts [PDF ebook] 

Social media has emerged as a powerful tool that reaches a wide audience with minimum time and effort. It has a diverse role in society and human life and can boost the visibility of information that …

This book describes how American society has evolved over the past half century by examining the cultural context for political change. It explores the profound alterations that have occurred in …

Public–private partnerships (PPPs) are arrangements between government and private actors with the objective of providing public infrastructure, facilities and services. Three fundamental questions f …

With the explosion of national, international, and multinational actors becoming involved in ocean exploitation, concern has arisen over how this common resource is to be managed. One focus of these …

This book maps Indo-US relations from the turn of the last century. Amidst the changing world order, the bilateral ties between two of the world’s greatest democracies have evolved from the thorny ex …

The Labour government elected in 1997 pledged to reform the Westminster parliament by modernising the House of Commons and removing the hereditary peers from the House of Lords. Events have …

The public expects organizations to come together and cooperate in times of crisis, yet we know that organizations often fall short of this anticipation. Today inter-organizational structures are the …

This collective study examines the transformation (metamorphosis) that Greece has experienced over the course of the 20th century by exploring its gradual evolution into a consolidated democracy, an …

Drawing upon systematic research using Q Methodology in seven countries – Denmark, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy, Netherlands and Sweden – this volume presents the results of the most …

From the Third Reich to Bosnia, nationalism – a sense of a nation”s place in the world – has been responsible for much bloodshed. Nationalism may be manipulated by political leaders or governments …