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"This book argues that the Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) model of education can inspire reform across higher education to help students acquire crucial civic virtues. Based on interviews with 59 students from LAS programmes across Europe, the book posits that LAS education can develop a range of citizenship skills that are central to the democratic process. The interviews provide insight into how studying LAS prepares students for citizenship by asking them to reflect on their education, what it taught them, and how it did so. Building on these insights, seven key democratic competencies are identified and linked to concrete educational practices that foster them, leading to an agenda for higher education reform. Ultimately arguing for making the teaching of civic virtue a more central part of university education in Europe, this book will appeal to researchers, educators, and politicians with an interest in education policy, philosophy of education, and democratic theory, as well as concerned citizens"--

"Economists are, in our day and age, best known as policy experts. This book is about one of them, Jan Tinbergen. He paved the way for this new type of economist. The economic expert is a government functionary, who works in service of the economic and social goals of government. The rise of the economic expert was intimately connected with a change in what was considered the most valuable sort of economic knowledge. For the expert an economy is not a natural system he studies like a physicist would, but a system which he can steer. and improve. The rise of expertise also gave birth to new types of institutions: business-cycle institutes, planning offices, forecasting bureaus, and international organizations of economic expertise.. Economists have, of course, always been concerned with policy. From (free) trade regimes, the best way to manage the currency, and the role of the state in the provision of public goods, policy questions have never been far from the mind of economists. But they typically did so in their role as professor and public intellectual. Economists since Adam Smith., and undoubtedly before him, have played an important role in shaping the thought of both politicians and the public about markets and trade, and the proper functions of the state. They often also had the ear of those in charge. The most famous economist of the past century, John Maynard Keynes., had the ear of the politicians in Britain of his age, and his ideas had influence across the world."

Cities leading on climate action -- Governance structures for adaptive and collaborative climate change action -- Responding to climate change : formal to informal -- Lessons for collaborative planning from practice -- Dublin -- Dublin : theory to practice and back

The 1900s and Onward: Beginnings. The 1910s and Onward: Taylor and Proceduralization. The 1920s and Onward: Accident-Prone. The 1930s and Onward: Heinrich and Behavior-Based Safety. The 1940s and Onward: Human Factors and Cognitive Systems Engineering. The 1950s, 1960s and Onward: System Safety. The 1970s and Onward: Man-Made Disasters. The 1980s and Onward: Normal Accidents and High Reliability Organizations. The 1990s and Onward: Swiss Cheese and Safety Management Systems. The 2000s and Onward: Safety Culture. The 2010s and Onward: Resilience Engineering. Postscript.

This book provides local governments and interested stakeholders with insights into the challenges and opportunities inherent in addressing climate change. Drawing on in-depth case study research on Vancouver, Portland, Glasgow and Dublin, Dekker examines the policy development processes employed by urban policy makers to respond to climate change, looking specifically at the utilisation of collaborative planning. Emerging from the case studies are lessons for local governments in relation to the role of organisational structure in supporting climate leadership; the importance of leadership, trust, relationship building and narratives for supporting ownership of the responses to climate change by stakeholders; and the need for creative and innovative public engagement to expand the reach of traditional methods such as social media and other technology-based solutions. Finally, Dekker reflects on her experience in the development of climate change action plans for the Dublin Local Authorities. This book will be of great relevance to students, scholars and policy makers with an interest in climate change resilience, environmental policy and urban planning

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Author -- Case Study: Under the Gun -- Case Study: When Does a Mistake Stop Being Honest? -- Chapter 1: Retributive and Restorative Just Cultures -- Retributive Just Cultures -- Shades of Retribution -- Difficulties and Fairness in Retribution -- Substantive Justice -- Breaking The Rules to Get More Recruits: Some Say Cheating Needed to Fill Ranks -- Procedural Justice -- Summarizing and Managing the Difficulties with Retributive Justice -- Restorative Just Culture -- Restorative Justice Steps -- Who Was Hurt, and What Are His or Her Needs? -- Identifying the Obligations to Meet Needs -- Restoration and Forgiveness -- Comparing and Contrasting Retributive and Restorative Approaches -- Neither Retributive nor Restorative Justice "Lets People Off the Hook" -- Retributive and Restorative Forms of Justice Deal Differently with Trust -- Can Someone or Something Be Beyond Restorative Justice? -- Case Study -- Are All Mistakes Equal? -- Technical Errors: Errors in a Role -- Normative Errors: Errors of a Role -- Chapter 2: Why Do Your People Break the Rules? -- Labeling Theory -- Violations Seen from This Bench Are Just Your Imagination -- Control Theory -- Learning Theory -- The Bad Apple Theory -- Stupid Rules and Subculture Theory -- Resilience Theory -- Case Study -- Hindsight and Shooting Down an Airliner -- The Hindsight Bias -- A Normal, Technical Professional Error -- A Normative, Culpability Mistake -- Hindsight and Culpability -- The Worse the Outcome, the More to Account For -- Chapter 3: Safety Reporting and Honest Disclosure -- A Few Bad Apples? -- Getting People to Report -- What to Report? -- Keeping the Reports Coming In -- Reporting to Managers or to Safety Staff?

"Cover" -- "Half Title" -- "Dedication" -- "Title" -- "Copyright" -- "Contents" -- "List of Figures and Tables" -- "Preface" -- "Prologue: A Nurse's Error Became a Crime" -- "1 What is the Right Thing to Do?" -- "2 "You Have Nothing to Fear if You've Done Nothing Wrong"" -- "3 Between Culpable and Blameless" -- "4 Are All Mistakes Equal?" -- "5 Report, Disclose, Protect, Learn" -- "6 A Just Culture in Your Organization" -- "7 The Criminalization of Human Error" -- "8 Is Criminalization Bad For Safety?" -- "9 Without Prosecutors, There Would Be No Crime" -- "10 Three Questions For Your Just Culture" -- "11 Why Do We Blame?" -- "Epilogue

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"This latest edition of The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error ' will help you understand how to move beyond 'human error'; how to understand accidents; how to do better investigations; how to understand and improve your safety work. You will be invited to think creatively and differently about the safety issues you and your organization face. In each, you will find possibilities for a new language, for different concepts, and for new leverage points to influence your own thinking and practice, as well as that of your colleagues and organization"--Provided by publisher

International climate negotiations take place in a setting where uncertainties regarding the impacts of climate change are very large. In this paper, we examine the influence of increasing the probability and impact of large climate change damages, also known as the 'fat tail', on the formation of an international mitigation agreement. We systematically vary the shape and location of the distribution of climate change damages using the stochastic version of the applied game-theoretical STACO model. Our aim is to identify how changes to the distributional form affect the stability of coalitions and their performance. We find that fatter upper tails increase the likelihood that more ambitious coalitions are stable as well as the performance of these stable coalitions. Fatter tails thus imply more successful, or 'fatter', international climate agreements.