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  • THE RISE AND RISE OF INDICATORS
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    THE RISE AND RISE OF INDICATORS
    STEPHEN MORSE
    This book makes indicators more accessible, in terms of what they are, who created them and how they are used. It examines the subjectivity and human frailty behind these quintessentially ‘hard’ and technical measures of the world. To achieve this goal, The Rise and Rise of Indicators presents the world in terms of a selected set of indicators. The emphasis is upon the origins ...

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  • VISIONS OF SUSTAINABILITY
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    VISIONS OF SUSTAINABILITY
    STEPHEN MORSE / NORA MCNAMARA / BENJAMIN OKWOLI
    This title was first published in 2000: Sustainable development has grown to compass cultural, socio-economic, political and environmental issues, and the use of Sustainability indicators (SIs) is seen by many as central to its implementation. After all, how can one ’do’ sustainable development unless one knows when it has been attained? The adoption of SIs in such a context is...

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  • SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
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    SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
    DONGYONG ZHANG / STEPHEN MORSE / UMA KAMBHAMPATI
    Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become an important concept in the last few decades. Although it originated in the developed countries of the West, the concept has been embraced and adapted by corporations and policy-making agencies in many developing countries. Not surprisingly, given the importance of growth and development as policy objectives in these countries, C...

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  • RICH PICTURES
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    RICH PICTURES
    SIMON BELL / TESSA BERG / STEPHEN MORSE
    Rich Pictures focuses on the value of developing visual narratives – Rich Pictures – as an important component and starting point for community participation. A key device for the community to share ideas and perspectives on current and potential future situations, Rich Pictures provide a shared space for members to set out ideas and negotiate. While Rich Pictures are widely an...

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  • PRACTICAL PARALLEL COMPUTING
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    PRACTICAL PARALLEL COMPUTING
    H. STEPHEN MORSE
    Practical Parallel Computing provides information pertinent to the fundamental aspects of high-performance parallel processing. This book discusses the development of parallel applications on a variety of equipment. Organized into three parts encompassing 12 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the technology trends that converge to favor massively parallel hardware ...

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  • MEASURING SUSTAINABILITY
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    MEASURING SUSTAINABILITY
    SIMON BELL / STEPHEN MORSE
    ' Measuring the sustainability of development is crucial to achieving it, and is one of the most actively studied issues in the area. To date, most studies of measurements or indicators have been largely theoretical. However, this book, a follow-on to Bell and Morse's highly influential Sustainability Indicators (1999), presents valuable practical advice on how to develop measu...

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  • INDICES AND INDICATORS IN DEVELOPMENT
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    INDICES AND INDICATORS IN DEVELOPMENT
    STEPHEN MORSE
    The use of numbers to condense complex systems into easily digested 'bites' of information is very much in fashion. At one level they are intended to enhance transparency, accountability and local democracy, while at another they provide a means of enhancing performance. However, all indicators suffer from the same basic problem that, ironically, is also their biggest advantage...

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  • SCIENCE AGRICULTURE AND RESEARCH
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    SCIENCE AGRICULTURE AND RESEARCH
    WILLIAM BUHLER / STEPHEN MORSE / EDDIE ARTHUR / SUSANNAH BOLTON / JUDY MANN
    Research is never free of pressures and constraints and to understand its results properly these have to be assessed and analyzed. In agriculture, research into biotechnology and GMOs, as well as pesticides and herbicides, is big business - agribusiness. This book looks at the crucial roles of funding and the political context on the research agenda and its results in agricultu...

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  • SUSTAINABILITY INDICATORS
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    SUSTAINABILITY INDICATORS
    SIMON BELL / STEPHEN MORSE
    Praise for the first edition: 'This book should be of interest to anyone interested in sustainable development, and especially sustainability indicators. Bell and Morse easily succeed in exposing the fundamental paradoxes of these concepts and, more importantly, they offer us a way forward. Readers ... will find their practical recommendations for those attempting to do sustain...

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  • PEOPLE AND ENVIRONMENT
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    PEOPLE AND ENVIRONMENT
    STEPHEN MORSE
    A text for undergraduate students which concentrates on central themes and issues concerning environment and development, including discussion of policy issues and implications. ...

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  • RESILIENT PARTICIPATION
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    RESILIENT PARTICIPATION
    SIMON BELL / STEPHEN MORSE
    Stakeholder or public participation has become something of a modern mantra employed in all sorts of contexts to give people a voice. There are many variants on this 'participation' but traditionally they all share a desire to maximise involvement and provide desired 'outputs' of a required quality as quickly and as cheaply as possible. Difference tends to be reduced and compro...

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