First Published in 2011. The purposes of this book are to analyze and describe the National Resources Planning Board (NRPB) and its direct predecessor agencies in the setting of their times, and to draw any lessons their experience offers us today. Resources for the Future (RFF) has a long tradition of conducting studies of government agencies that administer natural resource programs and policies. This book is in the RFF tradition of institutional studies with exhaustive coverage of an agency no longer in existence to anticipate emerging problems and provide a comprehensive viewpoint of its successes and failures. The audience for this book are all persons interested in government, natural resources, economic and social studies, and in planning generally.
Autorentext
Marion Clawson
Zusammenfassung
Policing and the Media provides an up-to-date overview of the changing dynamics and dimensions of the relationships that exist on the British police-media nexus. Factual, fictional and factional representations of policing in the media are the major - and for a great many citizens probably the sole - influence in shaping their perceptions and opinions about crime, law and order, community safety, police efficiency and integrity, not to mention the efficacy of criminal justice and penal policy. This book deals with all three representations, noting the lines between such clear divisions are increasingly blurred and the concepts of reality, realism and representation, slippery and complex.
Inhalt
Chapter 1 An Overview; Part 1 Origin and Setting; Chapter 2 The Situation From Which the Board Arose; Chapter 3 Predecessors of the Board; Part 2 History, Organization, Operation; Chapter 4 The Evolution of the Board and Its Predecessor Agencies; Chapter 5 Actors in the Board's Operations; Chapter 6 Organization, Structure, and Functioning; Chapter 7 The Roles Played by the Board; Part 3 Substantive Fields and Activities; Chapter 8 NRPB Reports Concerning Natural Resources; Chapter 9 NRPB Reports Concerning People and Their Lives; Chapter 10 NRPB Economic Inquiries and Reports; Chapter 11 NRPB Concerns With Transportation and Urban Structure; Chapter 12 NRPB Reports on Planning; Chapter 13 The NRPB as War and Postwar Planner; Part 4 The NRPB in the Structure of American Government; Chapter 14 The NRPB in Relation to State and Regional Planning Organizations; Chapter 15 The NRPB and Other Executive Branch Agencies; Chapter 16 The NRPB and FDR; Chapter 17 The NRPB and Congress; Part 5 Demise and Legacy; Chapter 18 Why and How Congress Killed the NRPB; Chapter 19 How Hard Did FDR Fight to Save the NRPB?; Chapter 20 The Legacy; Chapter 21 An Appraisal; Chapter 22 Does the United States Need a Reconstituted NRPB Today?;