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The Accidental Project Manager -- Why is Project Management a Good Fit for Emergency Management -- Risk Management for Emergency Management and Public Safety -- Developing Strategies and Capabilities to Manage Major Risk Events -- Developing the Project Scope -- Developing the Schedule -- Developing the Project Budget -- Developing the Human Resources Plan -- Developing the Quality Plan -- Developing the Risk Plan -- Developing the Stakeholder and Communications Plan -- Procurement, Contract Management and Reporting -- Monitoring and Control: Tracking Project Progress -- Program Management and Project Portfolio Management -- Emergency Response as a Project -- Quality Management in Emergency Management Programs and Continuous Improvement for Responses, Projects and Programs -- Project Leadership -- Next Steps.

Introduction : how to defend the right to protest and genuine democracy? -- The growth of mass protests globally -- Origins and significance of the right to protest -- Is there a legal right to protest? -- Constitutional protection of the right to protest? -- Expanding anti-protest laws -- Crimes against the state -- Use of police powers to combat protests -- What is at stake? -- How to defend and extend democracy? -- Conclusion.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is widely used in society today. The (mis)use of biased data sets in machine learning applications is well‑known, resulting in discrimination and exclusion of citizens. Another example is the use of non‑transparent algorithms that can't explain themselves to users, resulting in the AI not being trusted and therefore not being used when it might be beneficial to use it. Responsible Use of AI in Military Systems lays out what is required to develop and use AI in military systems in a responsible manner. Current developments in the emerging field of Responsible AI as applied to military systems in general (not merely weapons systems) are discussed. The book takes a broad and transdisciplinary scope by including contributions from the fields of philosophy, law, human factors, AI, systems engineering, and policy development. Divided into five sections, Section I covers various practical models and approaches to implementing military AI responsibly; Section II focuses on liability and accountability of individuals and states; Section III deals with human control in human‑AI military teams; Section IV addresses policy aspects such as multilateral security negotiations; and Section V focuses on 'autonomy' and 'meaningful human control' in weapons systems.

"This book examines deliberative democracy and its practical forms and applications in local government public policy. Author Joanna Podgórska-Rykała explores the topic of democracy, leaning in particular on the origins of its representative variant. Analyzing the elite dimension of the concept of representation, she considers what historical and political events have influenced the contemporary shape of democracy and its understanding. How were democratic ideals shaped, and why are we currently experiencing a democratic recession? Why is the debate that should be integral to the functioning of collegiate bodies disappearing? Why aren't decisions based on evidence, and why don't decision-makers take into account expert opinions and stakeholder positions? Drawing on empirical research - interviews with city-level decision-makers - the author considers whether and how deliberative innovation can support the renewal of decision-making in representative institutions. Deliberative Democracy, Public Policy, and Local Government will be of enormous interest to doctoral students and researchers as well as to practitioners of local government administration, civic leaders, representatives of non-governmental organizations, and people interested in public affairs. It can also be used as an important supplement in courses on public administration, political science, international relations, law, economics, and related studies at both the undergraduate and graduate levels"--

Listen to the scientists – hören wir auf die Wissenschafter … und zwar auf alle. Mit dieser Herangehensweise an das Thema Nr. 1, den Klimawandel, macht das Buch bereits den Unterschied zu herkömmlichen Einschätzungen aus, die die Angelegenheit auf eine einzig gültige Erzählung reduzieren wollen. Denn die wissenschaftliche Debatte wird keineswegs einheitlich geführt, wie es ihre Darstellung in den Leitmedien suggeriert. Der Autor bietet einen Überblick über die verschiedenen Forschungen, die sich mit der zu erwartenden Erderwärmung und dem Anstieg des Meeresspiegels beschäftigen. Anhand von zahlreichen Statistiken wird zudem gezeigt, dass von einer Zunahme extremer Wetterereignisse keine Rede sein kann, für Panik gibt es keinen Grund.

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Role Conceptions and International Politics: Nigeria and Beyond -- Chapter 3. Philosophical and Ideological Basis of Nigeria's Foreign Policy -- Chapter 4. Hegemonic Years: From the Founding Fathers to Soldier-Diplomats -- Chapter 5. Nigeria's Roles in Africa under Military Rule, September 1985- May 1999 -- Chapter 6. Nigeria's Roles in Africa under Civilian Rule, 1999-2022 -- Chapter 7. Hegemony in Decline: Causes and Costs -- Chapter 8. Conclusion.

Chapter 1. Migration and Cities: An Introduction -- Part I: Emerging and Established Global Cities: Managing Diversity from Above and from Below -- Chapter 2. Governing Diversity Beyond City and State: Epistemic and Ethical Challenges of African Urbanisation -- Chapter 3. Urban Policy Modelling and Diversity Governance in Doha and Singapore -- Chapter 4. Urban Diversity and Spatial Justice: A Critical Overview -- Part II: Migration and Diversity Outside the Urban Core: Small and Mid-sized Cities -- Chapter 5 -- Multi-level Migration and Multiculturalism Governance Meets Migrant and Refugee Agency in Regional Australian Towns -- Chapter 6. Immigration Policy and Less-Favoured Regions and Cities: Comparing Urban Atlantic Canada and the US Rust Belt -- Chapter 7. New Zealand's Small-Town Disruptions and the Role of Immigrant Mobilities -- Chapter 8 -- Reflections on 'Welcoming' Second- and Third-tier Cities in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States -- Part III: Migration and Diversity Dynamics in the Suburbs -- Chapter 9. Suburbanisation and Migrant Entrepreneurship in the United States -- Chapter 10. Stuck in the Suburbs? Socio-Spatial Exclusion of Migrants in Shanghai -- Chapter 11. Settlement and Rental Housing Experiences Among Recent Immigrants in the Suburbs of Vancouver: Burnaby, Richmond, and Surrey -- Chapter 12. Suburban Migration: Interrogating the Intersections of Global Migration and Suburban Transformation -- Part IV: Bordering Migration in Cities -- Chapter 13. The Urbanisation of Asylum -- Chapter 14. 'Urban-itarian' Ecologies in Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan After Displacement from Syria -- Chapter 15. Sheltering Extraction: the Politics of Knowledges Transitions in the Context of Shelter Organisations in Mexico and the Netherlands -- Chapter 16. Temporality and Permanency in the Study of Border Cities and Migration.

Introduction -- Queer Museology: Building a LGBTQ+ Museum Theory -- What's in a Name? Queer British Art 1861-1967 at Tate Britain -- Politically and Personally Queer: Coming Out: Sexuality, Gender & Identity at the Walker Art Gallery -- Never Queer Enough: A Queer Utopia at the Van Abbemuseum -- 'We have to do it ourselves. No one else will do that': Queer Feminism & Activism in the Schwules Museum -- The Queer Utopic Museum and its Limits -- Conclusion.

1.Introduction: The War against Ukraine: the EU Facing New Realities (Michèle Knodt and Claudia Wiesner) -- 2. Back to the roots? The war in Ukraine and Grand Theories in International Relations (Oriol Costa and Carme Martínez Blanc) -- 3. War and Peace in European Studies: A Zeitwende? (Knud Erik Jørgensen) -- 4. Re-ordering the EU and Europe: old boundaries and new challenges (Michael Smith) -- 5. The War against Ukraine, the Changing World Order, and the Conflict between Democracy and Autocracy (Claudia Wiesner) -- 6. Hungary, the EU and Russia´s War against Ukraine: the Changing Dynamics of EU Foreign Policymaking (Partick Müller and Peter Slominski) -- 7. Secure and Sustainable? Unveiling the Impact of the Russian War on EU energy governance (Michèle Knodt, Marc Ringel and Nils Bruch) -- 8. Conditions and Contestation: Ukraine on its way to EU-membership (Andrea Gawrich and Doris Wydra) -- 9. Still Normative Power Europe? The Perception of the EU in the Ukraine amidst the Russian War of Aggression (Kateryna Zarembo) -- 10. Narratives of Ukraine on the information battlefields of global media (Natalia Chaban and Svitlana Zhabotynska).

Chapter 1: Why researching climate change discourses in China? -- Chapter 2: Climate change politics, journalism and coverage of China -- Chapter 3: Social constructionism and environmental discourses -- Chapter 4: Mapping climate discourse networks in the coverage of China -- Chapter 5: Dynamic climate change discourses in China -- Chapter 6: Various actors of making climate change discourses -- Chapter 7: Climate change discourse networks in China in 2007, 2009 and 2015 -- Chapter 8: Communicating climate change discourses in China -- Chapter 9: Researching the coming of low carbon discourse.

1. The value of economic history of the creative economy -- 2. Understanding the dynamics of creation and regulation of the music market in seventeenth-century Naples -- 3. The transformation of orphanages in music conservatory as a production place to share knowledge, professional development and invest in human capital -- 4. The experience of the Pietà dei Turchini Conservatory (1584-1807) -- 5. The entrepreneurial adventure of music in the 19th century: the places, the protagonists, the system of production and use, and the publishing sector.

"The new edition of Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy offers an updated overview and critical discussion of contemporary discourses around truth, misinformation, and democracy, while also mapping cutting-edge scholarship. Through in-depth analyses of news articles, commentaries, academic publications, policy briefs, and political speeches, the book engages with the underlying normative ideas that shape how fake news is being addressed across the globe. Doing so, it provides an innovative, critical contribution to contemporary debates on democracy, post-truth, and politics. New to the 2nd edition - Three new chapters: Chapter 2 provides an outline of the scholarly field of research into fake news; Chapter 5 examines how issues of fake news and (mis)information have become intertwined with contemporary crisis events; and Chapter 9 presents democratic alternatives to post-truth solutionism. - A new foreword by Professor Sarah Banet-Weiser. - Fully updated examples and studies from contemporary events, including the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States Capitol attack, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. - Extended discussions on the causes of democratic decline, currently proposed solutions to fake news, and democratic alternatives to our current predicament. Interesting, informative, and well documented, Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy continues its commitment to understand and engage with current state and future of democracy"