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129 Seminar Speaking Success Tips

By: David R. Portney

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129 Seminar Speaking Success Tips

By: David R. Portney

No matter what your level of experience from rank beginner to polished professional you're going to Find in this book a practical reference guide to help you achieve smashing success with seminar speaking ... Guaranteed.Synopsis129 Seminar Speaking Success Tips is comprised of 129 tips. Each tip is based on my real-world experience doing literally thousands of seminars, classes, trainings, workshops, keynote speeches, presentations, and public speaking engagements for the last 26 years. These tips are not in any special order or sequenceand that's on purpose. You can open up to any page at random to Find a tip you can use in the real world starting right now. The first tip listed is not First because it's meant to be read First, nor is the last tip meant to be read last.You can treat this book like "a box of chocolates" and just open to any page and be surprised and delighted by what you Find. I also think of each tip as being like a potatochip: you can't eat just one. Reading one tip will make you want to read another tip. The difference between this book and potato chips or chocolate is that this book is a lot less fattening. However, if you decide to use seminar speaking as a way to further your career or promote your business or sell your products and services, you will certainly make your bank account fat!Taken altogether, the collection of tips comprises a serious body of knowledge and experience that you can put to practical use in the real world starting right away. This is not a theoretical work, nor is it a compilation of other works. You'll Find that this book stands unique as compared to other works on the topic.You'll Find tips that help you to conquer stage fright.You'll Find tips that help you to overcome fear of public speaking.You'll Find plenty of terriFic tips on how to find bookings and speaking engagements.You'll Find tips on how to handle questions, tips on how to structure a owing and awless presentation, and tips on expert presentation skills.Taken as a whole, this book allows you to conquer stage fright, know how to organize any kind of seminar or group event, and become a master of seminar speaking.

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129 More Seminar Speaking Success Tips

By: David R. Portney

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129 More Seminar Speaking Success Tips

By: David R. Portney

Some time ago I coined the term seminar speaking success as a simple yet broad way of talking about doing public speaking, seminars, workshops, client appreciation events - any kind of group event. If there are people gathered and you or someone else is speaking to that group, then that falls under the category of my term seminar speaking. Why do I add the word success to the end of that phrase? It's because the reality is that public speaking, seminars, and group events of all kinds are proving themselves to be one of the very few remaining viable and cost-effective ways to promote your business, product, service, cause, or issue. If you want to get your message in front of people inexpensively and effectively, your choices are shrinking quickly - and 129 More Seminar Speaking Success Tips will show you how to market yourself and your business easily and profitably.

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0967851483

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Get Your Money Where Your Mouth is

How to Use Seminars and Public Speaking to Market and Promote Your Business, Profession, Or Passion-- Profitably

By: David R. Portney

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Get Your Money Where Your Mouth is

How to Use Seminars and Public Speaking to Market and Promote Your Business, Profession, Or Passion-- Profitably

By: David R. Portney

Get Your Money Where Your Mouth Is is about one thing and one thing only: how to bring in a flood of new customers or interest into your business, profession, or passion so you can put a ton of money into your bank account and cash into your pocket. If money and attention are not your things, then you might want to stop reading right now because David Portney is going to show you exactly how to get both in the fastest, easiest, and most fun way possible--by delivering seminars and speaking in public.

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0976111179

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Explorations in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics

Essays in Honor of Gardner M. Brown, Jr

By: R. Halvorsen,Gardner Mallard Brown,David Layton

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Explorations in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics

Essays in Honor of Gardner M. Brown, Jr

By: R. Halvorsen,Gardner Mallard Brown,David Layton

This volume contains an excellent set of papers by top scholars in environmental and resource economics. These papers span the wide range of topics that characterized the extraordinarily broad and productive career of Gardner Brown. They bring current issues in modeling important environmental policy questions into sharp focus in a way that emphasizes Brown s seminal insights. Richard Carson, University of California, San Diego, US I am glad this book has been written. Gardner is clearly too radical to get a statue and I doubt he would have the patience to sit long enough for the sculptor to finish. Yet Gardner s ideas really deserve remembrance. The editors have managed not only to cover many of the areas and methods Gardner worked with but also to find authors who loved and/or respected him and who have honoured him by providing high quality work in his spirit. The book is imbued with those curious blends of curiosity and rigour, daring abstraction and yet painstaking attention to detail that are so characteristic of Gardner s work. It was a great pleasure to read. Thomas Sterner, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Gardner M. Brown, Jr. has been a leading innovator in the development of environmental and natural resource economics. This book comprises essays written in his honor by some of the most distinguished economists working in this field. The principal themes addressed include fundamental theoretical and empirical issues in the valuation of environmental and natural resources; the relationships between economic growth, natural resources and environmental quality; re-evaluation of some standard results in the dynamic modeling of renewable and non-renewable resources; the protection and management of biological resources; and the economics of antibiotic resistance. The original papers within this book will be of great interest to academics and practitioners in the field of environmental and natural resource economics.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1847202969

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Cost-Benefit Analysis

Concepts and Practice

By: Anthony E. Boardman,David H. Greenberg,Aidan R. Vining,David L. Weimer

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Cost-Benefit Analysis

Concepts and Practice

By: Anthony E. Boardman,David H. Greenberg,Aidan R. Vining,David L. Weimer

The fourth edition of Cost-Benefit Analysis is an authoritative, market-leading textbook that provides a practical introduction to cost-benefit analysis through problem solving. The text uses a consistent application of a nine-step framework for interpreting a cost-benefit analysis. This edition has been fully revised, updated and re-organized to provide the material more effectively. It presents application over abstract theory and clear discussion over mathematics to appeal to a larger, more diverse audience.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108699472

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Blueprint for a Sustainable Economy

By: David William Pearce,Edward Barbier

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Blueprint for a Sustainable Economy

By: David William Pearce,Edward Barbier

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Effective Environmental Regulation

Learning from Poland's Experience

By: David P. Angel,Halina Szejnwald Brown,Patrick G. Derr

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Effective Environmental Regulation

Learning from Poland's Experience

By: David P. Angel,Halina Szejnwald Brown,Patrick G. Derr

Challenging views prevalent among Western and Polish scholars, this book explains Poland's surprising success in developing effective environmental and occupational regulatory systems while achieving remarkable socioeconomic growth, despite the toxic legacy of the Communist era. It offers rich insights into the questions of how one can achieve both economic growth and improved environmental and safety protection, and of the extent to which regulatory systems can be transferred across national and cultural boundaries. The authors develop a theoretical framework for assessing regulatory success, then use it to analyze Poland's recent experience. Grounded in five case studies of recently privatized firms, the analysis also presents a new survey of privately owned firms, extensive policy and data analysis, and interviews with key policy leaders, entrepreneurs, and intellectuals. The book points to case-specific decision making and information richness as key dimensions of an effective regulatory system and considers in depth the extent to which information richness is culturally dependent, and hence its portability as a policy tool. Addressing regulatory issues that are specific to both the United States and the international development community, the book makes a significant contribution to advancing the theoretical and conceptual frameworks used to explain the success, or lack of success, of regulatory systems.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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031300319X

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Over the Horizon

Time, Uncertainty, and the Rise of Great Powers

By: David M. Edelstein

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Over the Horizon

Time, Uncertainty, and the Rise of Great Powers

By: David M. Edelstein

How do established powers react to growing competitors? The United States currently faces a dilemma with regard to China and others over whether to embrace competition and thus substantial present-day costs or collaborate with its rivals to garner short-term gains while letting them become more powerful. This problem lends considerable urgency to the lessons to be learned from Over the Horizon. David M. Edelstein analyzes past rising powers in his search for answers that point the way forward for the United States as it strives to maintain control over its competitors. Edelstein focuses on the time horizons of political leaders and the effects of long-term uncertainty on decision-making. He notes how state leaders tend to procrastinate when dealing with long-term threats, hoping instead to profit from short-term cooperation, and are reluctant to act precipitously in an uncertain environment. To test his novel theory, Edelstein uses lessons learned from history’s great powers: late nineteenth-century Germany, the United States at the turn of the twentieth century, interwar Germany, and the Soviet Union at the origins of the Cold War. Over the Horizon demonstrates that cooperation between declining and rising powers is more common than we might think, although declining states may later regret having given upstarts time to mature into true threats.

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Cornell University Press

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150171208X

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American Cities and the Politics of Party Conventions

By: Eric S. Heberlig,Suzanne M. Leland,David Swindell

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American Cities and the Politics of Party Conventions

By: Eric S. Heberlig,Suzanne M. Leland,David Swindell

Political party conventions have lost much of their original political nature, serving now primarily as elaborate infomercials while ratifying the decisions made by voters in state primaries and caucuses. While this activity hasn't changed significantly since the 1970s, conventions themselves have changed significantly in terms of how they are recruited, implemented, and paid for. American Cities and the Politics of Party Conventions analyzes how and why cities advance through the site selection process. Just as parties use conventions to communicate their policies, unity, and competence to the electorate, cities use the convention selection process to communicate their merits to political parties, businesses and residents. While hosting such a "mega event" provides some direct economic stimulus for host cities, the major benefit of the convention is the opportunity it provides for branding and signaling status. Combining a case studies approach as well as interviews with party and local officials, Eric S. Heberlig, Suzanne M. Leland, and David Swindell bring party convention scholarship up to date while highlighting the costs and benefits of hosting such events for tourism bureaus, city administrators, elected officials, and the citizens they represent.

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State University of New York Press

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1438466404

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The Administrative Presidency and the Environment

Policy Leadership and Retrenchment from Clinton to Trump

By: David M. Shafie

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The Administrative Presidency and the Environment

Policy Leadership and Retrenchment from Clinton to Trump

By: David M. Shafie

The growth of the administrative state and legislative gridlock has placed the White House at the center of environmental policymaking. Every recent president has continued the trend of relying upon administrative tools and unilateral actions to either advance or roll back environmental protection policies. From natural resources to climate change and pollution control, presidents have more been willing to test the limits of their authority, and the role of Congress has been one of reacting to presidential initiatives. In The Administrative Presidency and the Environment: Policy Leadership and Retrenchment from Clinton to Trump, David M. Shafie draws upon staff communications, speeches and other primary sources. Key features include detailed case studies in public land management, water quality, toxics, and climate policy, with particular attention to the role of science in decisionmaking. Finally, he identifies the techniques from previous administrations that made Trump’s administrative presidency possible. Shafie’s combination of qualitative analysis and topical case studies offers advanced undergraduate students and researchers alike important insights for understanding the interactions between environmental groups and the executive branch as well as implications for future policymaking.

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Routledge

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0429947380

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9780429947384

The Full Costs and Benefits of Transportation

Contributions to Theory, Method and Measurement ; with 62 Tables

By: David L. Greene,Donald W. Jones

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The Full Costs and Benefits of Transportation

Contributions to Theory, Method and Measurement ; with 62 Tables

By: David L. Greene,Donald W. Jones

Modern transportation systems have far-reaching, and serious consequences: deaths and injuries from accidents, pollution of air, water and groundwater, noise congestion, and the greenhouse effect. As world transport systems expand and become increasingly motorised, the transportation community is searching for systems that are both efficient and sustainable. Here, leading international researchers explore the issues and concepts and define the state of knowledge concerning the full costs and benefits of transportation.

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3540631232

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Presidential Administration and the Environment

Executive Leadership in the Age of Gridlock

By: David M. Shafie

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Presidential Administration and the Environment

Executive Leadership in the Age of Gridlock

By: David M. Shafie

After sweeping environmental legislation passed in the 1970s and 1980s, the 1990s ushered in an era when new legislation and reforms to existing laws were consistently caught up in a gridlock. In response, environmental groups became more specialized and professional, learning how to effect policy change through the courts, states, and federal agencies rather than through grassroots movements. Without a significantly mobilized public and with a generally uncooperative Congress, presidents since the 1990s have been forced to step into a new role of increasing presidential dominance over environmental policies. Rather than working with Congress, presidents instead have employed unilateral actions and administrative strategies to further their environmental goals. Presidential Administration and the Environment offers a detailed examination of the strategies and tools used by U.S. presidents. Using primary sources from presidential libraries such as speeches and staff communications, David M. Shafie analyzes how presidents such as Bill Clinton and George W. Bush have used alternative executive approaches to pass environmental policies. From there, Shafie presents case studies in land management, water policy, toxics, and climate change. He analyzes the role that executive leadership has played in passing policies within these four areas, explains how this role has changed over time, and concludes by investigating how Obama’s policies compare thus far with those of his predecessors. Shafie’s combination of qualitative content analysis and topical case studies offers scholars and researchers alike important insights for understanding the interactions between environmental groups and the executive branch and the implications for future policymaking in the United States.

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1136240519

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Breaking the Logjam

Environmental Protection That Will Work

By: David Schoenbrod,Richard B. Stewart,Katrina M. Wyman

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Breaking the Logjam

Environmental Protection That Will Work

By: David Schoenbrod,Richard B. Stewart,Katrina M. Wyman

After several decades of significant but incomplete successes, environmental protection in the United States is stuck. Administrations under presidents of both parties have fallen well short of the goals of their environmental statutes. Schoenbrod, Stewart, and Wyman, distinguished scholars in the field of environmental law, identify the core problems with existing environmental statutes and programs and explain how Congress can fix them. Based on a project the authors led that incorporated the work of more than fifty leading environmental experts, this book is a call to action through public understanding based on a nonpartisan argument for smarter, more flexible regulatory programs to stimulate the economy and encourage green technology.

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Yale University Press

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0300149611

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Energy, the Environment, and Public Policy

Issues for the 1990s

By: David L. McKee

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Energy, the Environment, and Public Policy

Issues for the 1990s

By: David L. McKee

With contributions by experts in economics, geography, marketing, agriculture, business, international affairs and more, this book addresses the extent and gravity of the current environmental situation. From toxic industrial and medical waste to acid rain and radioactive waste, from the Alaskan oil spill to the continuing destruction of the rain forests, McKee's focus is on economic welfare. He points out that public and private issues regarding environmental problems have been limited to crisis response. The contributions he has chosen for this volume clarify key issues for formulating policy options toward long-range economic welfare. The book includes an assessment of environmental policy during the Reagan administration and position statements by a prominent oil executive and a leading environmental conservationist. Other topics covered include: ethics and environmental restraint; financing the clean-up of hazardous waste; the impact of environmental regulation on plant location; solid waste disposal; environmental damage and national security; the decomissioning of nuclear facilities; the greenhouse effect; environmental constraints on economic diversification in small economies; and transboundary issues facing Canada and the United States. This work provides a valuable overview for those concerned with the economic aspects of energy, and the environment, including policy-makers in business, government, and academia.

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Praeger

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0275937194

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Productivity in Natural Resource Industries

Improvement through Innovation

By: R. David Simpson

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Productivity in Natural Resource Industries

Improvement through Innovation

By: R. David Simpson

Several senior natural resource analysts study the role played by innovation, particularly technological innovation, in the pursuit of heightened productivity. Increasing the output of a given input improves a firm‘s bottom line, makes it more competitive internationally, and reduces the potential for resource depletion and shortages. Thus, high productivity is a necessary ingredient of economic prosperity. This book illustrates the importance of technological innovation in achieving an acceptable level of output and efficiency. In this important new offering, a team of resource scholars describes and chronicles the development of recent innovations in selected natural resource industries. The authors also reveal the causes, sources, and net effect of such innovation on productivity. In all of these sectors productivity has increased considerably since the early 1980s, although the level of improvement varies across industries. To what degree did technological innovation contribute to that increase? Individual detailed case studies detail important innovations in America‘s coal, petroleum, copper, and forest industries. The primary focus is on extraction and production technologies, although the existence and importance of innovation in other areas such as management technique also enter the picture. For example, the combination of new technology with restructuring seems to have breathed new life into a floundering U.S. copper industry. The authors describe the origin and diffusion of important innovation, and the concluding chapter quantifies the net effect of such innovation on productivity.

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Routledge

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1135893691

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Policy Analysis

Concepts and Practice

By: David L. Weimer,Aidan R. Vining

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Policy Analysis

Concepts and Practice

By: David L. Weimer,Aidan R. Vining

Updated in a new 5th edition, this book lays a strong conceptual foundation to understanding the rationales of and limitations to public policy. It gives practical advice about how to do policy analysis while demonstrating the application of advanced analytical techniques through case study examples. Policy Analysis: Concepts and Practices is a comprehensive, accessible, and rich introduction to policy analysis for readers in public policy, public administration, and business programs.

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1317345649

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Restoring the Shining Waters

Superfund Success at Milltown, Montana

By: David Brooks

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Restoring the Shining Waters

Superfund Success at Milltown, Montana

By: David Brooks

No sooner had the EPA established the Superfund program in 1980 to clean up the nation’s toxic waste dumps and other abandoned hazardous waste sites, than a little Montana town found itself topping the new program’s National Priority List. Milltown, a place too small to warrant a listing in the U.S. Census, sat alongside a modest hydroelectric dam at the confluence of the Clark Fork and Blackfoot Rivers. For three-quarters of a century, arsenic-laced waste from some of the world’s largest copper-mining operations had accumulated behind the dam. Soon, Milltown became the site of Superfund’s first dam removal and watershed restoration, marking a turning point in U.S. environmental history. The story of this dramatic shift is the tale of individuals rallying to reclaim a place they valued beyond its utility. In Restoring the Shining Waters, David Brooks gives an intimate account of how local citizens—homeowners, university scientists, county health officials, grassroots environmentalists, business leaders, and thousands of engaged residents—brought about the removal of Milltown Dam. Interviews with townspeople, outside environmentalists, mining executives, and federal officials reveal how the everyday actions of individuals got the dam removed and, in the process, pushed Superfund to allow more public participation in decision making and to emphasize restoration over containment of polluted environments. A federal program designed to deal with the toxic legacies of industrialization thus became a starting point for restoring America’s most damaged environments, largely through the efforts of local communities. With curiosity, conviction, and a strong sense of place, the small town of Milltown helped restore an iconic western river valley—and in doing so, shaped the history of Superfund and modern environmentalism.

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0806152494

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