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The complexity of the modern world has led to increasing professional specialization. Experts in a variety of fields, including ethics, offer advice and solutions. But where professional expertise often involves mastering certain facts, ethics expertise is distinct. It is not clear, for example, whether moral expertise consists of knowledge of right and wrong, the ability to articulate implications of moral premises, or the display of an outstanding character oneself. This volume examines philosophical conceptions of ethics expertise from both historical and contemporary perspectives, including applications of ethics expertise in such areas as bioethics consultation, expert witnessing and policy making. It will be of interest to scholars of moral philosophy as well as contemporary practitioners in many areas of bioethics.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-263) and index. ; Public-private partnerships : trends and issues -- The providers of welfare-to-work services -- The services provided -- The government-provider relationship -- Public-private partnerships : public policy issues. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Settling the landscape of the present and future: Jewish migration to small-town New England, 1900/2000 -- I remember being in the barn: the story of Jewish agriculture in New England -- A good place for Jews to live: economic, civic, and community life in small-town New England -- Just enough to make a minyan: religious practice among small-town New England Jews -- The rewards of hard work: how small-town New England Jews might be helping to reverse a national decline

Includes bibliographical references and index

Since independence, governmental leaders in Africa have not pursued the policy option of making towns, represented as incorporated units, borrowers of commercial credit. To improve the quality of life among rural populations, governments in Africa should pursue the development strategy of making financial credit available to the towns located in those communities, because there is a high distribution of managerial expertise & material resources among the population. This article considers how African governments may adopt a development strategy that will encourage towns to borrow financial credit to engage in various economic & social activities, just like private companies. If these activities become viable, they may be a useful start in reversing the deterioration in economic & social well-being that several rural communities in Africa have suffered. 20 References. Adapted from the source document.

"Looking beyond the events of the second intifada and 9/11, this book reveals how targeted killing is intimately embedded in both Israeli and US statecraft and in the problematic relationship between sovereign authority and lawful violence underpinning the modern state system. It details the legal and political issues raised in targeted killing as it has emerged in practice, including questions of domestic constitutional authority, the use of force in international law, the law of belligerent occupation, the law of targeting and human rights law. The distinctive nature of Israeli and US targeted killing is analysed in terms of the compulsion of legality characteristic of liberal constitutionalism, a compulsion that demands the ability to distinguish between legal 'targeted killing' and extra-legal 'political assassination'. The effect is a highly legalized framework for the extraterritorial killing of designated terrorists that may significantly affect the international law of force"--

One of the ways to increase the country's foreign exchange earnings is encouraging tourism. As one of the countries that is rich in culinary taste of the archipelago, Indonesia has the potential to develop cultural gastronomy as one of the determining factors for tourists to choose tourist destinations. This study aims to determine the symbolic meaning of gastronomy in the culture of ethnic Chinese in Indonesia. The theory used in this study is the symbolic interactionism theory and cultural gastronomy. This study employs a case study method by selecting the Kota Tua (Old Town) area as the research site. Data were collected by means of observation and interviews with informants related to the purpose of the research. The conclusion shows that the Chinese gastronomic culture in Indonesia is the assimilation and acculturation of Chinese and Indonesian gastronomic culture. Thus, it presents culinary tastes that are different from the original, namely Ethno Gastronomy of Ethnic Chinese in Indonesia.

This case study addresses the foundation and evolution of Drogheda?s civic government as revealed by forty-five charters and other ancillary grants bestowed on the town from 1194 to 1412. This source material will throw light on the pattern of transmission of Anglo-Norman municipal law to Ireland and on customary law of the Irish borough/town. Charters hold the key to a better understanding of Drogheda?s internal administration, relationship with the central and local government and commercial functions. Charters are evaluated as a manifestation of institutional and cultural dissemination in a colonial context as well as products of contextual politics. By the same token, their chronologies and list of witnesses and political backgrounds are exploited as a source for a interpretation of Anglo-Irish relations from the late-twelfth to the early-fifteenth centuries. ; TARA (Trinity?s Access to Research Archive) has a robust takedown policy. Please contact us if you have any concerns: rssadmin@tcd.ie

AbstractAcross the US, coastal cities are threatened by many different man-made and natural hazards. From oil spill to hurricanes, tsunamis or coastal flooding, these cities should be prepared for emergency situations and should have well-organized emergency plans for their citizens. As a department that has contact with local government employees, human resource (HR) professionals understand the concepts that are important in times of crisis, including benefits management, training and development, and compensation. From mitigation to recovery, employees are vital to planning and responding to an emergency, and in a time when local government is focused on serving its citizens, local government human resource professionals serve those protecting those citizens – local government employees. The objective of this paper is to assess the roles and involvement of local government human resource professionals in emergency planning in coastal cities nationwide. Using responses collected from HR professionals in coastal cities with populations of 50,000 – 249,999, this paper investigates common HR issues included in emergency plans. Based on the analysis of their responses, gaps are identified and recommendations are made of ways in which human resources can contribute more effectively towards emergency planning for coastal cities.

Historic preservation is the child of the city. In North America, the United States Conference of Mayors served as midwife to the birth of the modern historic preservation movement, when in January 1966, it issued the report With a Heritage So Rich. The report's authors argued that in losing historic buildings and districts to urban renewal America was severing a vital link to the past. "Connections between successive generations of Americans—concretely linking their ways of life—are broken by demolition. Sources of memory cease to exist." Part coffee-table book and part policy proposal, the volume laid the foundation for the 1966 National Historic Preservation Act, whose fiftieth anniversary was recently celebrated. Even before these decisive actions, Jane Jacobs made the need to preserve the historic fabric of the city, a key element in her critique The Death and Life of Great American Cities. For Jacobs, old buildings, historic and otherwise, were also a key to maintaining the low rent commercial real estate base that was vital to growth of new businesses. "Cities need old buildings," she wrote, "so badly it is probably impossible for vigorous streets and districts to grow without them." Together Jacobs and the United States Conference of Mayors laid the foundation for historic preservation in North America, but they also laid bare a conflict that emerges at some point in every urban preservation enterprise. Is historic preservation a piece in a complex urban redevelopment strategy or is historic preservation an end unto itself?1

English This article calls for open-minded, critical research into the history of social work and a recognition of the discontinuities and diversity that are evident in its development and current forms. Social work as historical practice is about applying hermeneutic skills in order to create shared understandings that engage with issues of identity and culture. French Cet article plaide en faveur d'une recherche critique et ouverte à l'égard de l'histoire du travail social et d'une reconnaissance des ruptures et de la diversité qui sont manifestes dans son cours et aujourd'hui. La pratique historique du travail social consiste en l'application de l'herméneutique afin de créer une compréhension partagée sous-tendue par les enjeux d'identité et de culture. Spanish Este artículo convoca a una mentalidad abierta, a la investigació n crítica sobre la historia del trabajo social y al reconocimiento de las discontinuidades y diversidad que son evidentes en su desarrollo y formas actuales. El trabajo social, como prá ctica histó rica, está llamado a aplicar las herramientas hermenéuticas, a fin de crear comprensiones compartidas que se vinculen con los temas de identidad y cultura.