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Introduction: tourism, health and wellbeing and protected environments -- The European protected areas approach to organizing ecotourism : a study of benchmark protected areas -- Tourism, wellbeing and cultural ecosystem services : a case study of Orség National Park, Hungary -- Sustainable tourism in natural protected areas : the points of view of hosts and guests in Sila National Park -- Wellness tourism as a complementary activity in saltpans regeneration -- A model for developing evidence-based health tourism : the case of alpine health region Salzburg, Austria -- Participatory location-based learning and ICT as tools to increase international reputation of a wellbeing destination in rural areas: a case study -- Exploring how medical voluntourism contributes to health and wellbeing in Haiti -- The interrelationship between place symbolism, memory and voluntary income schemes (VIS) : the "stick up for Stanage" campaign -- The visitor : connecting health, wellbeing and the natural environment -- Reinventing coastal health tourism through lifestyle sports : the complexities of kiteboarding in practice -- Revitalizing rural communities in Costa Rica through sustainable tourism -- Experiencing a watersports holiday as part of a rehabilitation trajectory : identifying the salutogenic mechanisms -- The potential role of public aquariain human health and well-being -- Health effects of recreation vehicle noise : laboratory evidence for mood and heartrate -- A dynamic view of visitors : the impact of others on recreation and restorative nature experiences -- Concluding remarks

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 The outstanding nursery manager in a nutshell -- What makes an outstanding leader? -- Essential skills needed by managers -- Leadership styles -- Theories behind effective leadership -- Time for reflection -- 2 Building an effective team -- Advertising for staff -- Recruitment -- References -- Induction -- Probationary periods -- Disciplinary and grievances -- Separating the wheat from the chaff -- Sick days -- Whistleblowing -- Remuneration -- Rewarding good staff -- 3 Communication -- Day-to-day discussions -- Staff meetings -- Supervisions -- Training -- Staff records -- Staff wellbeing -- 4 Safeguarding and welfare -- Signs, symptoms and indicators of child abuse -- Prevent duty -- British values -- Female genital mutilation -- E-safety -- Staff behaviour -- Policies and procedures -- 5 Health and safety -- Illness -- First aid -- Food hygiene -- Cleanliness of the setting -- Maintenance -- Risk assessments -- Accidents, incidents and pre- existing injuries -- 6 Observation, assessment and planning -- Knowing how to assess -- Planning for a child's development -- Self-evaluation -- 7 Sustainability -- Carrying out market research -- Calculating profitability -- Advertising vacancies -- Promoting the business -- Measuring the results of advertising -- Monitoring capacity and remaining full -- Questionnaires and feedback -- Reviewing the service you provide -- 8 Promoting health and wellbeing through physical and nutrition co-ordination (PANCO) -- Physical activity -- Diet and nutrition -- Emotional health and wellbeing -- 9 Special educational needs and disabilities -- The role of the SENCO in early years settings -- Definition of special educational needs -- Types of disabilities or learning difficulties

Leveraging the power of trade to expand formal employment opportunities, general greater value addition, assist diversification processes and develop productive capabilities is an aspiration of all Commonwealth governments. These objectives were conveyed clearly at the Commonwealth Trade Ministers Meeting convened in March 2017. There are areas of mutual interest and where enhanced co-ordination between member countries could enhance trade gains. because the ability to transmit tacit knowledge through Commonwealth trade, finance and investment networks is inherent in the trade cost advantage shared by members - which exists without formal collaboration - it suggests the sharing of already known best practice could further enhance the gains from more concerted action. In order to engage effectively with contemporary trade, which manifests as global value chains (GVCs), it is incumbent on governments to better understand corporate strategies. In this publication, as well as taking stock of past performance, we reflect on potential dynamics and future fragmentation processes. The chapters collated in this publication provide for a more careful examination of the GVCs within which our members specialize across the spectrum of manufacturing, services, commodity trade,within the oceans economy. An inductive approach is adopted which involved learning from experiences across the Commonwealth of existing GVC participation, in view of our membership comprising a majority of small states, 45 oceans states and around one-fifth Least Developed Countries

Foreword -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction: Scoping corporate elites and public education -- Part 1: Corporatised governance: system perspectives -- 1. Corporate elites and the student identity market -- 2. The corporate false promise of techno-utopia: the case of Amplify! -- 3. Fighting for the local: Americans for Prosperity and the struggle for school boards -- 4. Axis of advantage: elites in higher education -- 5. Corporate elites and higher education reform: the corporatisation of academic life in Indonesia -- 6. Becoming a 'better' elite: the proliferation and discourses of educational travel programmes for elite youth -- 7. Double standards: everyday corporate strategies at an elite school in Argentina -- 8. (Re)producing elites: meritocracy, the state and the politics of the curriculum in Singapore -- Part 2 Corporatised governance: provision perspectives -- 9. Fast-track leadership development programmes: the new micro-philanthropy of future elites -- 10. Corporate consultancy practices in education services in England -- 11. The business of governorship: corporate elitism in public education -- 12. The courtier's empire: a case study of providers and provision -- 13. Political and corporate elites and localised educational policy-making: the case of Kingswood Academy -- 14. The usual suspects? Free schools in England and the influence of corporate elites -- 15. When students 'speak back': challenging elite approaches to teaching, learning and education policy -- Conclusion. The challenge of corporate elites and public education -- References -- Index.

A playbook for the modern knowledge worker, providing a complete guide that will allow workers to take a composite, dynamic view of a life's work in the 21st century. Knowledge work - the kind of work where one thinks for a living - is fundamental in today's economy. It is the basis for long-term success in the global economy and it drives the collective brainpower through which goods and services are delivered. And today, knowledge work requires much more than a college degree: it means understanding the changing nature of work and employment, and the processes through which knowledge is generated, transferred, and applied. It means understanding new career possibilities, more dynamic work arrangements, and the growing demand for knowledge work around the globe. It means navigating work life with an authenticity that replaces any straightforward loyalty to a single employer, and instead calls for better understanding of the self, collaborators, clients, and customers. Provides clear guidance on how to take charge of your own destiny, seek continuous learning, collaborate with others, recognize and act on fresh opportunities, determine when it is time to move on, and much more. Ultimately, the goal of this book is to help knowledge workers from architects to lawyers learn to work on their own terms and to assume ownership of work and career

Introduction to Visitor Management / Julia N. Albrecht -- Destination Management and Visitor Management / Douglas Pearce -- Meeting the Challenge of Managing Visitor Experiences at Tourism Attractions / Paul Taylor, Warwick Frost and Jennifer Laing -- The Social and Political Dimensions of Visitor Management : Visitor Management Practices at Rural Home-based Accommodations / Najmeh Hassanali -- Indicators and Standards-Based Visitor Management Frameworks in Achieving Sustainability at Cultural Heritage Sites / Mohammad Alazaizeh and Jeffrey Hallo -- Managing Nature-Based Visitors' Perceived Service Quality, Satisfaction and Future Behavior Intention / Joohyun Lee and Brijesh Thapa -- The Relevance of Visitors' National Park Affinity for Effective Visitor Management in Protected Areas / Jannes Bayer, Astrid Fehringer, Günther Lehar, Florian Jurgeit and Theresa Leitner -- Park and Protected Area Visitor Use Monitoring / Robert Burns and Jasmine Moreira -- Tourist Behaviors, Vandalism and Stakeholder Responses / Abhishek Bhati and Philip Pearce -- Augmented Reality Application in Museum Visitor Experiences / Azizul Hassan and Haywantee Ramkissoon -- Strategies for Successful Interpretation Techniques in Visitor Attractions : The Operationalization of Guided Tours in Museums / Marília Durão and Maria João Carneiro -- Using Heritage Interpretation to Manage Visitors at Film-induced Tourism Heritage Attractions / Justyna Bakiewicz, Anna Leask, Paul Barron and Tijana Rakic -- Theories of Learning and their Application in Interpretation / I-Ling Kuo -- Critical Reflections on the Role of Interpretation in Visitor Management / Gianna Moscardo -- Current Knowledge and Future Research Directions in Visitor Management / Julia N. Albrecht

Intro -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- 1. The current situation in Germany and the world -- 2. The ego or who am I really? -- 3. Philosophical and psychological backgrounds -- 4. Aspects of Having and Being in everyday life -- 5. The difficulty of changing the human character -- 6. Two German economic miracles - learning from the past -- 7. The German health care service -- Summary and Conclusions -- 8. Concrete Steps -- 8.1 The new human science -- 8.2 The reformation of the school system -- 8.3 A global ethic -- 8.4 The alignment of production towards healthy and sensible consumption -- 8.5 Hypnosis-like methods in commercial and political advertising -- 8.6 Basic changes in our relationship to nature -- 8.7 The persistent continuation of the energy revolution -- 8.8. Market-based instruments in climate protection -- 8.9 Ecological finance reform -- 8.10 Abolition of inequality between the rich and poor countries -- 8.11 Ending the exponential growth of mankind -- 8.12 Active participation by people through decentralisation of the economy and politics -- 8.13 Information committees for the dissemination of objective information -- 8.14 The political co-determination democracy -- 8.15 Disarmament -- 8.16 Separation of basic scientific research from military practicality -- 8.17 The necessity for female equality in every area -- 8.18 Health reforms -- 8.19 Introduction of an annual minimum wage -- 8.20 The tasks of the politicians -- 8.21 The tasks of the entrepreneur -- 8.22 The role of religion -- Bibliography.

Intro -- Chapter I: Background -- Media and Democracy -- Technology -- Chapter II: Domestic Social Policy -- Immigration -- Entry-Level Employment Prospects -- Schools -- Learning Theories -- School Entry -- Public and Private Healthcare -- Chapter III: Domestic Economic policy -- Productivity -- The Welfare State -- Pensions and the Ageing Population -- Taxation -- Chapter IV: Deprivation and Social Work -- Poverty -- Direct Payments -- Child Protection -- Therapeutic Approaches -- Task-Centred Therapy and Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy -- Cannabis and Schizophrenia -- Substance Misuse -- Chapter V: Mental Health -- Schizophrenia -- Ontological Insecurity -- The Politics of Empathy -- The Role of Genetics -- Chapter VI: Hazards in Everyday Life -- The Pharmaceutical Industry -- Genetic Engineering -- Endocrine Disruptors -- Other Hazards -- Chapter VII: Non-Renewable Energy of the Future. -- Nuclear Waste Storage -- Nuclear Fission -- Nuclear Reactors -- Reprocessing -- Reactor Risks -- Nuclear Fusion -- Cancer Risks -- Hydraulic Fracturing -- Chapter VIII: Renewable Energy -- The Case for Renewable Energy -- Managing Scarcity -- Proposals -- Chapter IX: Environmental Regulation -- International Environmental Policies -- The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership -- Chapter X: Globalisation -- Third-World Development -- African Statehood -- International Organisations -- Sectoral Shift -- The Financial Industry -- China -- Proposals -- Chapter XI: Religious, Cultural and Diplomatic Challenges -- Gender Roles -- Religious Principles -- Islam -- Arab Society -- Conflict in the Middle East -- Israel and Palestine -- Middle Eastern Security Services and the Syrian War -- The Ukraine Crisis -- Economic Sanctions Against Russia -- Chapter XII: Security -- Risk Assessment -- Nuclear Disarmament -- The Special Demonstration Squad.

1. W(h)ither the European shrinking city? / William J.V. Neill and Hans Schlappa -- 2. Carry on shrinking? The bankruptcy of urban policy in Detroit / William J.V. Neill -- 3. Governing social cohesion in shrinking cities : the cases of Ostrava, Genoa and Leipzig / Caterina Cortese ... [et al.] -- 4. Civic engagement and development strategies : learning from the experience of participatory rural redevelopment / David Houston, Stephen McKay and Michael Murray -- 5. The role of the social economy in the shrinking city / Brendan Murtagh -- 6. Doing things differently : co-producing responses to urban shrinkage / Hans Schlappa -- 7. The challenge of temporary usage in the shrinking city : a report from the "laboratory of Berlin" / Christian Porst and William J.V. Neill -- 8. Shrinking cities and food : place-making for sustainable renewal, reuse and retrofit / Susan Parham -- 9. Green open spaces and urban perforation : opportunities, concepts and challenges for shrinking cities / Cornelius Scherzer -- 10. Managing brownfield land in stagnant land markets / Uwe Ferber and Hans Schlappa -- 11. Managing service infrastructures in shrinking cities : challenges and opportunities / Jörg Walther -- 12. Coming of age : age-friendly strategies for shrinking cities / Roos Galjaard -- 13. If not growth what then? Re-thinking the strategy process for shrinking cities / Hans Schlappa -- 14. Conclusions : priorities for tackling shrinkage in Europe's cities / Hans Schlappa and William J.V. Neill

The Sociology of Healthcare Safety and Qualitypresents a series of research-informed readings on the sociological contributions of technologies, practices, experiences, and organizational quality and safety across a range of healthcare contexts.Represents the first collection of peer-reviewed research articles showcasing ways that sociology can contribute to the ongoing policy concern of healthcare safety and qualityFeatures original contributions from leading experts in healthcare related fields from three continentsReveals the state-of-the art in sociological analyses of contemporary healthcare safety and quality along with future directions in the fieldOffers sociological insights from the perspectives of managers, clinicians, and patients Davina Allen is a Professor of Health Care Delivery and Organization at Cardiff University, UK, a member of the Sociology of Health Illness editorial team and Editorial Board member of the Journal of Health Services Research and Policy.Jeffrey Braithwaite is Foundation Director, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Director, Centre for Healthcare Resilience and Implementation Science, and Professor of Health Systems Research, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.Jane Sandall is a Professor of Social Science and Women's Health and co-leads King's Improvement Science at King's College, London.Justin Waring is Professor of Organisational Sociology and Director of the Centre for Health Innovation, Leadership Learning at Nottingham University Business School, UK.

Front Cover -- Emotions, Technology, and Design -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Preface -- Introduction -- Volume Overview -- Experiments and Theories in Emotions, Technology, and Design -- Critical Theoretical Engagements with Emotions, Technology, and Design -- References -- Section I: Experiments and Theories in Emotions, Technology, and Design -- Chapter 1: Emotional Screen: Color and Moving Images in Digital Media -- Color as Cinematic Emotion: A Historical Summary -- From Brain to Marketing: The Attraction Effect -- Patterns of Emotion: Three Examples from Contemporary Digital Media -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter 2: Safe and Sound: Using Audio to Communicate Comfort, Safety, and Familiarity in Digital Media -- Hearing, Listening, Feeling -- (Auditory) Displays of Emotion -- Conclusion: Sounding Safety, Security, Stasis, and Status -- References -- Chapter 3: Emoticons in Business Communication: Is the :) Worth it? -- Introduction -- Nonverbal Communication -- Emoticons -- Leader-Member Exchange -- References -- Chapter 4: Empathetic Technology -- Introduction -- What is Empathy? -- Empathy and Technology -- Modeling Empathy -- Empathetic Virtual Companions -- Perceptions of Empathetic Virtual Agents -- Developing an Interaction Strategy for a Virtual Companion -- References -- Chapter 5: Spoken Dialog Agent Applications using Emotional Expressions -- Introduction -- Experiment Investigating Impressions and Behavior Change Caused by Replies from the Agent -- Experimental Method -- Results and Discussion -- Comparative Experiment on Effects of a Virtual Agent and a Robot -- Experimental Method -- Results and Discussion -- A Spoken Agent System for Learning Customer Services -- Experiment and Results.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Contributor Presentations -- Foreword -- Foreword -- Preface -- Part I Background and Introduction -- 1 The Relevance of Management Innovations for Healthcare Organizations -- 2 Healthcare Organizations and Managerial Innovations From an International Perspective -- Part II Examining Management Innovations -- 3 360-Degree Feedback in Healthcare Organizations -- 4 Accreditation and Other External Evaluations of Quality and Safety of Care and Services: Innovations for Improvement? -- 5 The Balanced Scorecard in Healthcare Organizations -- 6 Business Process Reengineering in Healthcare Organizations -- 7 Consensus as a Management Strategy for Healthcare Organizations: Culture, Involvement and Commitment -- 8 Corporate Social Responsibility for Healthcare Organizations -- 9 Decentralizing Healthcare -- 10 Empowerment in Healthcare Organizations -- 11 Kaizen in Healthcare Organizations -- 12 Knowledge Management in Healthcare Organizations -- 13 Lean Healthcare: What Is the Contribution to Quality of Care? -- 14 Learning Organizations: Panacea or Irrelevance? -- 15 Management by Objectives in Healthcare Organizations Then and Now: A Literature Overview of MBO Limitations and Perspectives in the Healthcare Sector -- 16 New Public Management in Healthcare Organizations -- 17 Servant Leadership in Healthcare Organizations -- 18 Shared Leadership in Healthcare Organizations -- 19 Six Sigma Applicability and Implementation in Healthcare -- 20 Sustainability in Healthcare Organizations -- 21 Teamwork in Healthcare Organizations -- 22 Total Quality Management in Healthcare -- 23 Transformational Leadership in Healthcare Organizations -- 24 Value-Based Healthcare: Utopian Vision or Fit for Purpose? -- Part III Conclusions and Future Research.

Transformational tourism is about a change in thinking and behaviour through travel and tourism. In contrast to the first volume which focuses on tourist perspectives, this second volume focuses on host community perspectives of transformational tourism. This volume shows that through the tourist-host relationships, interacting with other people and learning about other places, host communities can critically reflect on life, and shift the course of their knowledge and the meaning perspective. By experiencing tourism and tourists, host communities can generate new thoughts and ideas, create new meanings, change their social, cultural, political and environmental beliefs and, most importantly, move towards new values of openness, tolerance, sharing, empathy, compassion, justice and peace, unity and oneness, and service to others. This volume contains 14 chapters. Most of the chapters concentrate on a particular type of host experience and report on research studies conducted in various parts of the world. The volume is aimed at tourism students and academics in business and non-business schools. Studies presented in this volume are also likely to appeal to tourism businesses because they show what tourism products should be developed in order for the host communities to grow and the industry to be successful. In addition, this volume is aimed at students, academics and professionals from other disciplines that deal with human development and behavioural changes.

Front cover -- Title page -- Imprint page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Maps, Figures and Tables -- Introduction: On Becoming Visible -- Context -- On transitions -- The logic of this book -- Part I: Complexity, Sustainability and Transition -- Part II: Rethinking Development -- Part III: From Resource Wars to Sustainable Living -- Values -- Part I: Complexity, Sustainability and Transition -- Chapter 1: Complexity and Sustainability -- Introduction -- Imagining modern society -- On reductionism, and horror -- Revisiting the scientific revolution -- Learning from complexity theory -- Evolution and sustainability -- Progress versus sustainability -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2: What is so Unsustainable? -- Introduction -- The documents that changed our view of the world -- Eco-system services -- Global warming -- Oil peak -- Poverty and inequality -- Our urban futures -- Food insecurity, soils and the future of agriculture -- Material flows -- Sustainability, inequality and the limits of ecological modernisation -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3: Crisis, Transitions and Sustainability -- Introduction -- Conceptualising transitions -- Industrial transitions since 1771 -- Socio-ecological transitions since 13,000 BCE -- Understanding the crisis -- Overlapping industrial and epochal transitions -- Decoupling and the next development cycle -- Conclusion -- Part II: Rethinking Development -- Chapter 4: Greening the Developmental State -- Introduction -- Defining the developmental state -- Rethinking the developmental state -- Trends in development economics -- Trends in ecological economics -- Rethinking innovation -- Towards a synthesis -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5: Rethinking Urbanism -- Introduction -- The second urbanisation wave -- Globalisation, restructuring urban space and resource flows -- Networks, flows, urbanisms -- Conclusion

Social experiences of physical rehabilitation : the role of the family / Dikmen Bezmez and Sibel Yardimci -- Learning from Tojisha Kenkyu : mental health patients studying their difficulties with their peers / Kohji Ishihara -- The psycho-social impact of impairment : the case of motor neurone disease / Jo Ferrie and Nick Watson -- Beyond the ICF : Italian network strategies for job placement of persons with disabilities / Fabio Corbisiero -- Sites of oppression : dominant ideologies and women with disabilities in India / Nandini Ghosh -- How to understand violence against disabled people / Halvor Hanisch -- The invisibles : conceptualising the intersectional relationships between dyslexia, social exclusion and homelessness / Stephen Macdonald -- When power says no : bureaucratic governance and disability rights in Iceland / James Rice, Eirikur Smith and Kristin Björnsdóttir -- Mental capacity and the control of sexuality of people with intellectual disabilities in England and Wales / Lucy Series -- My sister wont let me : issues of control over one's own life as experienced by older women with intellectual disabilities / Iva Strnadová -- Social representations and inclusive practices for disabled students in italian higher education : a mixed-method analysis of multiple perspectives / Fabio Ferrucci and Michela Cortini -- The problem of the supercrip : representation and misrepresentation of disability / Jan Grue -- User, client or consumer? Construction of roles in video interpreting services / Hilde Haualand -- Reading other minds : ethical considerations on the representation of intellectual disability in fiction / Howard Sklar