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  • Risk Regulation in the United States and European Union

    Controlling Chaos

    by A. Luedtke, L. Svedin, Thad E. Hall ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Globalization and technology have altered public fears and changed expectations of how government should make people safer. This book analyzes how Europeans and Americans perceive and regulate risk. The authors show how public fears about risk are filtered through political systems to pressure governments to insure against risk. ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Ethics and Crisis Management

    Edited by Lina Svedin ...
    Series series Ethics in Practice
    The daily process of public service provision and administration is filled with value judgments and value trade-offs, and the safeguarding of just and fair processes is key to the public’s trust in governing institutions. In crises, public decision-makers face complex ethical judgments under great uncertainty, timepressure, and heightened public scrutiny. A lack of attention to the ethical ... Read more

    $67.09 CAD

  • Bioeconomy challenges and implementation: the European research organisations’ perspective

    by Pascal Bergeret, Egizio Valceschini, Uno Svedin ...
    Series series Matière à débattre et décider
    This book focuses on opportunities and challenges in implementing a bioeconomy strategy from a research and education perspective. It draws on contributions presented during the 30th EURAGRI annual conference held in Tartu (Estonia) in September 2016, as well as on other workshops organised as part of EURAGRI. EURAGRI is an informal gathering of EU research and higher education organisations and ... Read more

    Free

  • Ethics and Risk Management

    Edited by Lina Svedin ...
    Series series Ethics in Practice
    The underlying rationale for this book is to present research that a) highlights the explosively political and deeply divisive issues involved in managing risk and b) address the empirical deficit and theoretical challenges related to managing societal risk ethically. Extant risk management research borrows heavily from engineering, systems theory and business management, and is primarily focused ... Read more

    $59.39 CAD

  • Sustainability, Local Democracy and the Future: The Swedish Model

    Edited by U. Svedin, Britt Hägerhäll Aniansson ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

    $115.29 CAD

  • International Governance on Environmental Issues

    Edited by Mats Rolén, Helen Sjöberg, U. Svedin ...
    Series Book 9 - Environment & Policy
    During the last years international cooperation on environmental issues has increased, especially after UNCED in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. The efforts made by the United Nations or groups of states to solve more or less global problems through negotiation has brought up a number of questions of interest for the research community. How are inter national agreements achieved? Which roles do ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • The Collaborative Fight

    Pursuing Jointness in the US Military

    by Paul R. Birch, Lina Svedin ...
    Series series Studies in Civil-Military Relations
    The beautiful picture of brothers in arms vanquishing a tyrant. The power of a well-orchestrated army and navy winning historic battles. Overwhelming military might and ability through teamwork. This is how the US military services portray themselves to the public and to their own service members through official doctrine. However, under the veneer of jointness, deeply fraught processes are at ... Read more

    $24.79 CAD

  • Temptation 101

    The Reluctant Devils, #1

    by Wilson Svedin ...
    Series Book 1 - The Reluctant Devils
    The Reluctant Devils is a look at the existance and nature of spirits consigned to Satan's dark world. Temptation 101 is the first of three volumes and explores the idea that not all devils are the same. As they are instructed in their craft, we also get a view of humanity from their eyes. ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Diffusion and transfer of knowledge in agriculture

    by Uno Svedin, Pascal Bergeret, Christian Huyghe ...
    Series series Matière à débattre et décider
    This book focuses on innovation in the agri-food system and the new paradigm drawn by bioeconomic approaches and principles. It draws on contributions presented during the 29th EURAGRI annual conference held in Luxemburg (September 2015) as well as on other workshops organised as part of EURAGRI. EURAGRI is an informal gathering of EU research and higher education organisations and ministries ... Read more

    Free

  • Battle for Gigania

    The Chronicles of Gigania, #3

    by Wilson Svedin ...
    Series Book 3 - The Chronicles of Gigania
    Flynn struggled to hang onto his courage, but the thought of war began filling him with a sick feeling he couldn’t shake. Some of the arguments that nearly sent him back to his world began rehashing in his brain. The people of Normatan and Gigania were not his people; this was not his world. He thought he had come to grips with that, but he felt the conflict building inside of him again. Then a ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Accountability in Crises and Public Trust in Governing Institutions

    by Lina Svedin ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Governance and Public Policy
    This book examines how efforts to exert accountability in crises affect public trust in governing institutions. Using Sweden as the case study, this book provides a framework to analyse accountability in crises and looks at how this affects trust in government.Crises test the fabric of governing institutions. Threatening core societal values, they force elected officials and public servants to ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • The Noble of Normatan

    by W. T. Svedin ...
    Haan put his seventeen year old daughter, Kishi, on the back of his trusted horse and sent her away to escape the invasion of the barbarians from Luerodan. Leaving her parents was the most difficult thing she had ever done. Without looking back, she rode all the way to the high plateau overlooking the valley of Normatan. Under the enchantment of the high mountain valley she is spared the horrors ... Read more

    $6.49 CAD