Statistics Knowledge And Policy Key Indicators To Inform Decision Making

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264009019
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Statistics, Knowledge and Policy Key Indicators to Inform Decision Making written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2005-10-27 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This conference proceedings compares various approaches to the development of key indicator systems which would provide reliable information spanning the social, economic and environmental domains.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264009019
Total Pages : 647 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Statistics, Knowledge and Policy Key Indicators to Inform Decision Making written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2005-10-27 with total page 647 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This conference proceedings compares various approaches to the development of key indicator systems which would provide reliable information spanning the social, economic and environmental domains.

Author : Michele Walters
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319272888
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The GEO Handbook on Biodiversity Observation Networks written by Michele Walters and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-25 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biodiversity observation systems are almost everywhere inadequate to meet local, national and international (treaty) obligations. As a result of alarmingly rapid declines in biodiversity in the modern era, there is a strong, worldwide desire to upgrade our monitoring systems, but little clarity on what is actually needed and how it can be assembled from the elements which are already present. This book intends to provide practical guidance to broadly-defined biodiversity observation networks at all scales, but predominantly the national scale and higher. This is a practical how-to book with substantial policy relevance. It will mostly be used by technical specialists with a responsibility for biodiversity monitoring to establish and refine their systems. It is written at a technical level, but one that is not discipline-bound: it should be intelligible to anyone in the broad field with a tertiary education.

Author : Judith Eleanor Innes
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781412827201
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Knowledge and Public Policy written by Judith Eleanor Innes and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the question of what it takes to develop social indicators that genuinely influence important public decisions. It looks historically at the processes of creating and using three important social indicators in the United States: unemployment rates, standard budgets, and crime rates. It then develops principles for choosing concepts, designing measures, and creating policy processes that institutionalize their use. For this second edition, Innes has provided a major new introductory essay, which reflects on social indicators research and her own and others' continuing work on the role of quantitative and other professionally generated information in policy making. She contends that in practice knowledge is influential as it becomes part of the myths that shape public life, as it empowers some policy actors over others, as it establishes the agendas and frames the problem, as it sets the terms for negotiation and public discourse. For these arguments, she draws on her research on human rights policy, environmental impact assessment, housing policy and local community development. The case studies in the original book have stood the test of time, and remain valid supports for the author's interpretations. The author contends that to understand how knowledge and policy are linked, we need to replace the "scientific" model of explicit knowledge use with a more inclusive, interactive model of knowledge influence. To do this we must rethink both the education and practice of policy professionals. Innes sees indicators as lenses on the world that help define problems and point the way to solutions. It is not surprising that the case studies show that the most influential indicators are developed jointly with policy and theories about the problem. As she says, "there are no facts without theories and the only way a statistician can keep out of politics is to collect only irrelevant data." This new edition will be of immense interest to those interested in the sociology of ideas, policy studies, and the emerging field of knowledge transfer. Judith Innes is a professor in the city and regional planning department of the University of California, Berkeley.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264060782
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Measuring Government Activity written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2009-04-14 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book summarises the available OECD and other international data on public sector inputs and processes. It also examines the existing internationally comparable data on outputs and outcomes, and recommends new approaches to measurement.

Author : Francesco Palermo
Publisher : Hotei Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9004274510
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Federalism as Decision-Making written by Francesco Palermo and published by Hotei Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accounting for participation, separation of powers and democratic accountability, federalism gains momentum in times when traditional democratic legitimacy of institutional decision-making is challenged. Its ability to include multiple interests makes federalism a means to ensure good governance. Based on a multidisciplinary analysis, the book tackles the question of whether federalism as a pragmatic governance tool provides answers to current challenges and what those answers are. Thirty-three leading experts critically examine to what extent federalism serves this purpose in compound states, looking at different countries and policies. The volume revolves around five sub-themes: ‘federalism, democracy and governance’, ‘participation mechanisms and procedures’, ‘policy areas compared’, ‘institutional innovation and participatory democracy’ and ‘federalism: from theory to governance’.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264043241
Total Pages : 595 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Statistics, Knowledge and Policy 2007 Measuring and Fostering the Progress of Societies written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2008-09-22 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: OECD's 2nd World Forum on Statistics, Knowledge and Policy held in Istanbul in June 2007 brought together a diverse group of leaders from more than 130 countries to discuss issues surrounding use of statistics in policy making. This proceedings includes 40 papers presented at that event.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264056297
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book OECD Multi-level Governance Studies Governing Regional Development Policy The Use of Performance Indicators written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-23 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report examines both the challenges and the opportunities associated with designing and using indicator systems in the context of multi-level governance.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264049479
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book OECD Journal on Development, Volume 9 Issue 2 Measuring Human Rights and Democratic Governance: Experiences and Lessons from Metagora written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2008-09-08 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the occasion of the 60 anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, this special issue of the OECD Journal on Development focuses on robust methods and tools for assessing human rights, democracy and governance.

Author : Jeremic, Veljko
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1522507159
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emerging Trends in the Development and Application of Composite Indicators written by Jeremic, Veljko and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perceiving complex multidimensional problems has proven to be a difficult task for people to overcome. However, introducing composite indicators into such problems allows the opportunity to reduce the problem's complexity. Emerging Trends in the Development and Application of Composite Indicators is an authoritative reference source for the latest scholarly research on the benefits and challenges presented by building composite indicators, and how these techniques promote optimized critical thinking. Highlighting various indicator types and quantitative methods, this book is ideally designed for developers, researchers, public officials, and upper-level students.