Overcrowded

Author : Roberto Verganti
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262335832
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Overcrowded written by Roberto Verganti and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A more powerful innovation, which seeks to discover not how things work but why we need things. The standard text on innovation advises would-be innovators to conduct creative brainstorming sessions and seek input from outsiders—users or communities. This kind of innovating can be effective at improving products but not at capturing bigger opportunities in the marketplace. In this book Roberto Verganti offers a new approach—one that does not set out to solve existing problems but to find breakthrough meaningful experiences. There is no brainstorming—which produces too many ideas, unfiltered—but a vision, subject to criticism. It does not come from outsiders but from one person's unique interpretation. The alternate path to innovation mapped by Verganti aims to discover not how things work but why we need things. It gives customers something more meaningful—something they can love. Verganti describes the work of companies, including Nest Labs, Apple, Yankee Candle, and Philips Healthcare, that have created successful businesses by doing just this. Nest Labs, for example, didn't create a more advanced programmable thermostat, because people don't love to program their home appliances. Nest's thermostat learns the habits of the household and bases its temperature settings accordingly. Verganti discusses principles and practices, methods and implementation. The process begins with a vision and proceeds through developmental criticism, first from a sparring partner and then from a circle of radical thinkers, then from external experts and interpreters, and only then from users. Innovation driven by meaning is the way to create value in our current world, where ideas are abundant but novel visions are rare. If something is meaningful for both the people who create it and the people who consume it, business value follows.

Author : Ewan McLeish
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN 13 : 9781433900884
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Overcrowded World written by Ewan McLeish and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the issue of overpopulation, its causes, and its impact on people and the environment.

Author : Rainer Münz
Publisher : Haus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781906598105
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Overcrowded World? written by Rainer Münz and published by Haus Publishing. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today our planet is home to 6.8 billion people. By the year 2050, the global population will have grown to 9 billion. Yet the problems that will come with this massive expansion are not universal. Many developing nations will experience high demographic growth, while industrialized countries will have to deal with aging and eventually shrinking populations, as well as with more immigration. Overcrowded World? Global Population and International Migration offers a perspective on the causes and effects of rapid population change, and asks two vital questions: how can Earth sustain this growth? And what can we do to improve the living conditions of present and future generations?

Author : Michael Tonry
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195344456
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sentencing Reform in Overcrowded Times written by Michael Tonry and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997-04-24 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sentencing and corrections issues are much the same in every Western nation. Increasingly, countries are importing policies and practices that have succeeded elsewhere. In that spirit, this volume brings together articles on sentencing reform in the United States, other English-speaking countries, and Western Europe, all written by leading national and international authorities on sentencing and punishment policy, practices, and institutions. Timely and readable, many of these essays provide brief yet detailed sentencing policy histories for countries and states. Others offer concise overviews of research on racial disparities, public opinion, and evaluation of the effects of new policies. Together, they illustrate the radical, precipitate, and hyperpoliticized nature of American sentencing reform in the last twenty-five years. Sentencing Reform in Overcrowded Times: A Comparative Perspective fills a major gap in the academic and policy literatures on this subject, and will be essential reading for students, scholars, and practitioners.

Author : Michael Tonry
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195349679
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Penal Reform in Overcrowded Times written by Michael Tonry and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-11-15 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together a collection of articles on penal reform in the United States, Europe, Japan, and other English-speaking countries. Unique and wide-ranging, the volume provides material on penal policy development and research and presents an international, comparative focus. Written by leading national and international authorities, it offers some of the broadest efforts to characterize recent penal trends and to analyze their causes and consequences.

Author : Michael H. Tonry
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781555532215
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intermediate Sanctions in Overcrowded Times written by Michael H. Tonry and published by UPNE. This book was released on 1995 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Stimulating, informative and accessible." -- LCCJ Newsletter

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ISBN 13 : 9789241550376
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book WHO Housing and Health Guidelines written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improved housing conditions can save lives, prevent disease, increase quality of life, reduce poverty, and help mitigate climate change. Housing is becoming increasingly important to health in light of urban growth, ageing populations and climate change. The WHO Housing and health guidelines bring together the most recent evidence to provide practical recommendations to reduce the health burden due to unsafe and substandard housing. Based on newly commissioned systematic reviews, the guidelines provide recommendations relevant to inadequate living space (crowding), low and high indoor temperatures, injury hazards in the home, and accessibility of housing for people with functional impairments. In addition, the guidelines identify and summarize existing WHO guidelines and recommendations related to housing, with respect to water quality, air quality, neighbourhood noise, asbestos, lead, tobacco smoke and radon. The guidelines take a comprehensive, intersectoral perspective on the issue of housing and health and highlight co-benefits of interventions addressing several risk factors at the same time. The WHO Housing and health guidelines aim at informing housing policies and regulations at the national, regional and local level and are further relevant in the daily activities of implementing actors who are directly involved in the construction, maintenance and demolition of housing in ways that influence human health and safety. The guidelines therefore emphasize the importance of collaboration between the health and other sectors and joint efforts across all government levels to promote healthy housing. The guidelines' implementation at country-level will in particular contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals on health (SDG 3) and sustainable cities (SDG 11). WHO will support Member States in adapting the guidelines to national contexts and priorities to ensure safe and healthy housing for all.

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Home Affairs Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 0215027604
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prison Suicides and Overcrowding written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Home Affairs Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2006-02-22 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prison suicides and Overcrowding : Oral and written evidence, Tuesday 8 November 2005, Ms Frances Crook, Ms Pauline Campbell, Ms Deborah Coles, Ms Juliet Lyon and Mr Geoff Dobson; Rt Hon Baroness Scotland of Asthal QC, Ms Christine Knott, Mr Phil Wheatley

Author : Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780394722078
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Overcrowded Barracoon written by Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1984 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: V.S. Naipul describes his literary predicament as a West-Indian-born Indian writer, living in England, and reflects upon the social aspects of colonialism

Author : Hough, Mike
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1847421180
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tackling prison overcrowding written by Hough, Mike and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2008-10-22 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tackling prison overcrowding is a response to controversial proposals for prisons and sentencing set out in by Lord Patrick Carter's Review of Prisons, published in 2007. The Carter review proposed the construction of vast 'Titan' prisons to deal with the immediate problem of prison overcrowding, the establishment of a Sentencing Commission as a mechanism for keeping judicial demand for prison places in line with supply, along with further use of the private sector, including private sector management methods. Tackling prison overcrowding comprises nine chapters by leading academic experts, who expose these proposals to critical scrutiny. They take the Carter Report to task for construing the problems too narrowly, in terms of efficiency and economy, and for failing to understand the wider issues of justice that need addressing. They argue that the crisis of prison overcrowding is first and foremost a political problem - arising from penal populism - for which political solutions need to be found. This accessible report will be of interest to policy makers, probation practitioners, academics and other commentators on criminal policy.