Implementing City Sustainability examines the structures and processes that city governments employ to pursue environmental, social, and economic well-being within their communities. As American cities adopt sustainability objectives, they are faced with the need to overcome fuzzy-boundary, coordination, and collective action challenges to achieve successful implementation.Sustainability goals often do not fit neatly into traditional city government structures, which tend to be organized around specific functional responsibilities, such as planning, public works, parks and recreation, and community development. The authors advance a theory of Functional Collective Action and apply it to local sustainability to explain how cities can-and in some cases do-organize to successfully administer changes to achieve complex objectives that transcend these organizational separations. Implementing City Sustainability uses a mixed-method research design and original data to provide a national overview of cities’ sustainability arrangements, as well as eight city case studies highlighting different means of organizing to achieve functional collective action.By focusing not just on what cities are doing to further sustainability, but also on how they are doing it, the authors show how administrative structure enables-or inhibits-cities to overcome functional divides and achieve successful outcomes.
Implementing City Sustainability examines the structures and processes that city governments employ to pursue environmental, social, and economic well-being within their communities. As American cities adopt sustainability objectives, they are faced with the need to overcome fuzzy-boundary, coordination, and collective action challenges to achieve successful implementation.Sustainability goals often do not fit neatly into traditional city government structures, which tend to be organized around specific functional responsibilities, such as planning, public works, parks and recreation, and community development. The authors advance a theory of Functional Collective Action and apply it to local sustainability to explain how cities can-and in some cases do-organize to successfully administer changes to achieve complex objectives that transcend these organizational separations. Implementing City Sustainability uses a mixed-method research design and original data to provide a national overview of cities’ sustainability arrangements, as well as eight city case studies highlighting different means of organizing to achieve functional collective action.By focusing not just on what cities are doing to further sustainability, but also on how they are doing it, the authors show how administrative structure enables-or inhibits-cities to overcome functional divides and achieve successful outcomes.
The automatic filter against bad, irrelevant, outdated investing information Cocktail Investing takes a look at investing in a different, catalyst-driven light to form a more cohesive, globally relevant investing lens. With a focus on the intersection of economics, demographics, psychographics, technology, policy, and more, this book helps readers build a more profitable portfolio based on what they see everyday rather than following the herd on Wall Street. Industry experts expose the actionable, observable, and recognizable trends that surround us daily, and show readers how to recognize these trends for themselves and translate them into wiser investing decisions without getting sidetracked by media clutter and bad advice. Given today's ever-increasing deluge of information, the average investor faces the challenge of sorting through the babble to decipher what it means, and learn how, where, and why they should be investing given the current economic environment and the uncertain future. This book provides an 'off' switch, helping readers apply an automatic mental filter to the incoming cacophony, to filter out only what they can use for smarter money moves. Read the economy like a professional investorFilter out useless and misleading dataRecognize 'go' signals, and identify the beneficiariesIdentify cyclical and structural changes that have reshaped business models The economic climate has changed drastically, and traditional practices are no longer getting results. Modern investing requires a whole new approach, and Cocktail Investing is the clear, insightful guide for putting it into action.
Practising Spanish Grammar can be used independently or as the ideal companion to the sixth edition of the widely acclaimed A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish (Butt, Benjamin and Moreira Rodríguez).Thoroughly updated, this fourth edition of the workbook features an improved organization which closely mirrors that of A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish, sixth edition. The selection of exercises has been fully revised and expanded with new exercises on a variety of topics including possessives, conditional, future and past tenses, and polite requests.Designed to stimulate and engage even the most grammar-shy students, this is an ideal resource for Spanish learners at CEFR Level B2–C1, ACFTL Intermediate-High to Advanced.
Practising Spanish Grammar can be used independently or as the ideal companion to the sixth edition of the widely acclaimed A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish (Butt, Benjamin and Moreira Rodríguez).Thoroughly updated, this fourth edition of the workbook features an improved organization which closely mirrors that of A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish, sixth edition. The selection of exercises has been fully revised and expanded with new exercises on a variety of topics including possessives, conditional, future and past tenses, and polite requests.Designed to stimulate and engage even the most grammar-shy students, this is an ideal resource for Spanish learners at CEFR Level B2–C1, ACFTL Intermediate-High to Advanced.
A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish is a comprehensive, cohesive and clear guide to the forms and structures of Spanish as it is written and spoken today in Spain and Latin-America. It includes clear descriptions of all the main grammatical phenomena of Spanish, and their use, illustrated by numerous examples of contemporary Spanish, both Peninsular and Latin-American, formal and informal. Fully revised and updated, the sixth edition is even more relevant to students and teachers of Spanish.Practising Spanish Grammar is the ideal companion to the sixth edition of the widely acclaimed A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish. Thoroughly updated, this fourth edition of the workbook features an improved organization which closely mirrors that of A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish, sixth edition. The selection of exercises has been fullyrevised and expanded with new exercises on a variety of topics includingpossessives, conditional, future and past tenses, and polite requests.The combination of reference grammar and workbook is invaluable for learners at level B2–C2 of the Common European Framework for Languages, and Intermediate High–Advanced High on the ACTFL proficiency scales.
Eto istorija o kosmicheskikh prikljuchenijakh, v kotorye otpravljajutsja druzja, chtoby bolshe uznat o mire, v kotorom my zhivem. Eto takzhe istorija o zakonakh fiziki, kotorye upravljajut etim mirom. No, krome vsego prochego, eto istorija ob odinokom malchike po imeni Dzhordzh i o tom, kak izmenilas ego zhizn s togo dnja, kogda on poznakomilsja so svoimi novymi sosedjami - Anni i Erikom. Anni bolshe vsego na svete ljubit balet, a ee otets Erik, uchenyj-kosmolog, bolshe vsego na svete ljubit kosmos. Eriku pomogaet superkompjuter po imeni... "Kosmos". Etot kompjuter nastolko moschnyj i nastolko umnyj, chto umeet risovat dveri, cherez kotorye mozhno popast v ljubuju tochku Vselennoj (konechno, nadev pri etom skafandr - ved tam, v otkrytom kosmose, strashno kholodno!). A poka Dzhordzh i ego druzja issledujut kosmicheskoe prostranstvo, "Kosmos" upravljaet poletom... esli on na meste, konechno. No v ljuboj knizhke, dazhe v nauchno-prikljuchencheskoj, est zlye sily, kotorye... Dlja srednego shkolnogo vozrasta.
Po Vselennoj na asteroide - ne mozhet byt! Mozhet! - ne somnevajutsja znamenityj astrofizik Stiven Khoking, ego doch Ljusi i byvshij aspirant, a nyne populjarizator nauki Kristof Galfar, kotorye v sentjabre 2007 goda predstavili svoju pervuju knigu dlja detej o prikljuchenijakh Dzhordzha i ego druzej vo Vselennoj. V etoj zhivoj i vesjoloj knige oni rasskazali o fantasticheski interesnykh predmetakh - chernykh dyrakh, kvazarakh, asteroidakh, galaktikakh i parallelnykh vselennykh - detjam. Avtory osobo podcherkivajut, chto khoteli "predstavit sovremennyj vzgljad na kosmologiju ot Bolshogo vzryva do nastojaschego vremeni bez kakoj by to ni bylo magii". Edinstvennyj volshebnyj geroj v knige - eto superkompjuter, kotoryj otkryvaet dver Dzhordzhu i ego druzjam vo Vselennuju.Eto istorija o kosmicheskikh prikljuchenijakh, v kotorye otpravljajutsja druzja, chtoby bolshe uznat o mire, v kotorom my zhivjom. Eto takzhe istorija o zakonakh fiziki, kotorye upravljajut etim mirom. No, krome vsego prochego, eto istorija ob odinokom malchike po imeni Dzhordzh i o tom, kak izmenilas ego zhizn s togo dnja, kogda on poznakomilsja so svoimi novymi sosedjami - Anni i Erikom. Anni bolshe vsego na svete ljubit balet, a ejo otets Erik, uchjonyj-kosmolog, bolshe vsego na svete ljubit kosmos. Eriku pomogaet superkompjuter po imeni... "Kosmos". Etot kompjuter nastolko moschnyj i nastolko umnyj, chto umeet risovat dveri, cherez kotorye mozhno popast v ljubuju tochku Vselennoj (konechno, nadev pri etom skafandr - ved tam, v otkrytom kosmose, strashno kholodno!). A poka Dzhordzh i ego druzja issledujut kosmicheskoe prostranstvo, "Kosmos" upravljaet poljotom... esli on na meste, konechno. No v ljuboj knizhke, dazhe v nauchno-prikljuchencheskoj, est zlye sily, kotorye... Vprochem, ne budem rasskazyvat sjuzhet zaranee, ved ochen skoro vy ego uznaete sami.Evropejskaja premera knigi sostojalas v sentjabre 2007 goda vo Frantsii i Velikobritanii. V blizhajshee vremja kniga budet perevedena na mnozhestvo jazykov i budet prodavatsja v 29 stranakh. Dlja srednego shkolnogo vozrasta.Perevodchik: Kanischeva E. D.Redaktor: Surdin Vladimir GeorgievichKhudozhnik: Parsons Garri
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Chris Neil--or Christopher, as his mother, Bonnie, called him--grew up with the ambition and desire to be an NHL hockey player. Through grit and determination, he achieved his goal and left an indelible mark on the Ottawa Senators franchise. Christopher spent many hours as a youngster in Ron and Cathy Pegg's home, providing the author with personal, first-hand knowledge of Neil the hockey player and the man. That friendship continues to this day. In this engaging biography, you'll meet the Neil family and the personalities from the world of hockey that guided and formed Chris Neil throughout his life--a life of athletics, community involvement, and faith. Christopher played over a thousand games in the NHL, all as a member of the Ottawa Senators. He became one of just over fifty players in the history of the league to play a thousand games with one team. The one thousandth game was played in Los Angeles, with his wife, Cait, and all the members of the Pegg family present. Christopher is not the final word on Neil's career, as he continues to serve the hockey community off the ice, but it does tell the tale of a life well lived so far and will inspire hockey fans and people of faith alike.
How long can you hide from your mate?Chris is a newcomer to Green Hill. His family has settled in, even his brother, who made the mistake of trying to take the alpha position from the Green Hill pride alpha, but not Chris. He feels like he doesn't belong, and he doesn't know how to fix it.Meeting his mate might help.Drake is in love with love, but love doesn't work for him. Every time he's in a relationship, he gets dumped because of his personality-he's too needy, he talks too much or expects too much from his boyfriend. He hasn't given up, but when he meets his mate, he decides that something needs to change before he sends Chris running, too.That something is him.While Chris does his best to get to know the real Drake, Drake does his best to hide his personality from Chris. The push and pull is maddening for both of them and can't continue forever, but who will win?
