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Author Thomas Fisher introduces the idea of fracture-critical design and provides many solutions for how we can design to avoid major disasters.

This book provides the most comprehensive analysis of the rural non-farm sector in India available for any developing country, and puts forward a coherent and wide-ranging strategy for promoting the sector to meet national goals of full employment, economic growth and poverty alleviation.

Architecture, defined here most broadly as human shelter, addresses basic human needs of safety, security, privacy, and protection from the elements, but it is often viewed not as a right that every person has, but as a vehicle for controlling people, stimulating investment, and a range of other social, political, and economic interests. This article looks at the ethics of this situation from various ethical perspectives and concludes that, regardless of one's point of view, every human being has a right to shelter.

Creating the public realm in an era of constrained resources demands a level of cooperation among multiple sectors rarely seen before and a recognition that the boundaries between what we have considered "public" and "private" have become porous and blurred. A number of recent projects on either side of the Mississippi River near downtown Minneapolis show what this means in terms of delivering public value much greater than any one sector could produce on its own.

The measurement of productivity has been a problem area for many
years because of the difficulties inherent in precisely defining and
quantifying all the outputs and inputs which constitute the productivity
equation. A productivity measurement technique is presented which
focuses on the business aspects of an organisation′s performance, using
standard cost accounting information, so providing an effective system
to measure the productivity of an organisation and its departments. The
technique is simple and flexible, and does not require the collection of
additional information. It is based on the standard total productivity
model where Productivity = Output divided by Input, and develops from
this model a simple formula for calculating overall organisational
productivity, as well as a differential approach which relates
departmental productivity variances to standard cost and volume
variances. Critical factors in the approach are the use of business
goals, and the determination of effective output measures. This
"business productivity" concept is considered to have many
benefits over other productivity accounting approaches because it
provides a great deal of information vital to effective management
decision making.