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Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 - Basic Responsibilities of a Board and Its Members -- Chapter 2 - How to Operate Your Board -- Chapter 3 - How to Build Your Board -- Chapter 4 - How to Work with the CEO -- Chapter 5 - How to Ensure Quality Care -- Chapter 6 - How to Provide Fiscal Oversight -- Chapter 7 - How to Work with the Community -- Chapter 8 - The Board and Nonconventional Medicine -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1 - Sample Conflict of Interest Policy -- Appendix 2 - Sample Conflict of Interest Disclosure Statement -- Appendix 3 - Sample Board Member Performance Appraisal, Short Version -- Appendix 4 -Sample Board Member Performance Appraisal, Long Version -- Appendix 5 - Sample CEO Employment Contract -- Appendix 6 - CEO Separation Agreement -- Appendix 7 - Common Healthcare Abbreviations and Definitions -- Index -- About the Author.

Climate change is prompting an unprecedented questioning of the fundamental bases upon which society is founded. Businesses claim that technology can save the environment, while politicians champion the role of international environmental agreements to secure global action. Economists suggest that we should pay developing countries not to destroy their forests, while environmentalists question whether we can solve ecological problems with the same thinking that created them. As the process of steering society, governance has a critical role to play in coordinating these disparate voices and se

Ocean-a source of life, has been overused and heavily polluted. While the traditional approaches might not be able to solve the complexity of the ocean governance issues, there is a need to adopt a new way of thinking in order to deal with the current problems. This book emphasises the importance of law and policy while generating ocean governance initiatives. ""Good Ocean Governance"" as a new way of thinking, needs to be supported by legislation and decision makers. It is, therefore, necessary to examine whether the idea of good ocean governance exists within the international legal system a

In the wake of the recent global financial collapse the timely new edition of this successful text provides students and business professionals with a welcome update of the key issues facing managers, boards of directors, investors, and shareholders. In addition to its authoritative overview of the history, the myth and the reality of corporate governance, this new edition has been updated to include:analysis of the financial crisis;the reasons for the global scale of the recessionthe failure of international risk managementAn overview of corporate governance guidelines and codes of practice;n.

Democratic Governance examines the changing nature of the modern state and reveals the dangers these changes pose to democracy. Mark Bevir shows how new ideas about governance have gradually displaced old-style notions of government in Britain and around the world. Policymakers cling to outdated concepts of representative government while at the same time placing ever more faith in expertise, markets, and networks. Democracy exhibits blurred lines of accountability and declining legitimacy. Bevir explores how new theories of governance undermined traditional government in the twentieth century.

The role of governance has only recently begun to be researched in order to understand tourism policy making and planning, and tourism development. This book brings together leading researchers who assess the interactions of multiple actors associated with tourism governance, and examine new critical perspectives on tourism's governance in the context of sustainable development. This book was originally published as a special issue of Journal of Sustainable Tourism.