SAN GABRIEL BASIN DEMONSTRATION PROJECT FUNDING INCREASE... REPORT 108-331... SENATE... 108TH CONGRESS, 2D SESSION.
Title | SAN GABRIEL BASIN DEMONSTRATION PROJECT FUNDING INCREASE... REPORT 108-331... SENATE... 108TH CONGRESS, 2D SESSION. PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. Senate |
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Release | 2005* |
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INCREASE IN FEDERAL SHARE OF SAN GABRIEL BASIN DEMONSTRATION PROJECT... REPORT 108-204... HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES... 108TH CONGRESS, 1ST SESSION.
Title | INCREASE IN FEDERAL SHARE OF SAN GABRIEL BASIN DEMONSTRATION PROJECT... REPORT 108-204... HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES... 108TH CONGRESS, 1ST SESSION. PDF eBook |
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Release | 2003 |
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San Gabriel Basin demonstration project funding increase
Title | San Gabriel Basin demonstration project funding increase PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources |
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Pages | 8 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Water resources development |
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United States Congressional Serial Set, Serial No. 14877, Senate Reports Nos. 302-342
Title | United States Congressional Serial Set, Serial No. 14877, Senate Reports Nos. 302-342 PDF eBook |
Author | United States Congress. House of Representatives |
Publisher | Government Printing Office |
Pages | 1348 |
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Defending Air Bases in an Age of Insurgency
Title | Defending Air Bases in an Age of Insurgency PDF eBook |
Author | Shannon Caudill |
Publisher | Military Bookshop |
Pages | 444 |
Release | 2014-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781782666851 |
This anthology discusses the converging operational issues of air base defense and counterinsurgency. It explores the diverse challenges associated with defending air assets and joint personnel in a counterinsurgency environment. The authors are primarily Air Force officers from security forces, intelligence, and the office of special investigations, but works are included from a US Air Force pilot and a Canadian air force officer. The authors examine lessons from Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and other conflicts as they relate to securing air bases and sustaining air operations in a high-threat counterinsurgency environment. The essays review the capabilities, doctrine, tactics, and training needed in base defense operations and recommend ways in which to build a strong, synchronized ground defense partnership with joint and combined forces. The authors offer recommendations on the development of combat leaders with the depth of knowledge, tactical and operational skill sets, and counterinsurgency mind set necessary to be effective in the modern asymmetric battlefield.
Anticipatory Policymaking
Title | Anticipatory Policymaking PDF eBook |
Author | Rob A. DeLeo |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 259 |
Release | 2015-09-16 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1317604962 |
Public policy analysts and political pundits alike tend to describe the policymaking process as a reactive sequence in which government develops solutions for clearly evident and identifiable problems. While this depiction holds true in many cases, it fails to account for instances in which public policy is enacted in anticipation of a potential future problem. Whereas traditional policy concerns manifest themselves through ongoing harms, "anticipatory problems" are projected to occur sometime in the future, and it is the prospect of their potentially catastrophic impact that generates intense speculation and concern in the present. Anticipatory Policymaking: When Government Acts to Prevent Problems and Why It Is So Difficult provides an in depth examination of the complex process through which United States government institutions anticipate emerging threats. Using contemporary debates over the risks associated with nanotechnology, pandemic influenza, and global warming as case study material, Rob A. DeLeo highlights the distinctive features of proactive governance. By challenging the pervasive assumption of reactive policymaking, DeLeo provides a dynamic approach for conceptualizing the political dimensions of anticipatory policy change.
Golden Gulag
Title | Golden Gulag PDF eBook |
Author | Ruth Wilson Gilmore |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 413 |
Release | 2007-01-08 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0520938038 |
Since 1980, the number of people in U.S. prisons has increased more than 450%. Despite a crime rate that has been falling steadily for decades, California has led the way in this explosion, with what a state analyst called "the biggest prison building project in the history of the world." Golden Gulag provides the first detailed explanation for that buildup by looking at how political and economic forces, ranging from global to local, conjoined to produce the prison boom. In an informed and impassioned account, Ruth Wilson Gilmore examines this issue through statewide, rural, and urban perspectives to explain how the expansion developed from surpluses of finance capital, labor, land, and state capacity. Detailing crises that hit California’s economy with particular ferocity, she argues that defeats of radical struggles, weakening of labor, and shifting patterns of capital investment have been key conditions for prison growth. The results—a vast and expensive prison system, a huge number of incarcerated young people of color, and the increase in punitive justice such as the "three strikes" law—pose profound and troubling questions for the future of California, the United States, and the world. Golden Gulag provides a rich context for this complex dilemma, and at the same time challenges many cherished assumptions about who benefits and who suffers from the state’s commitment to prison expansion.