1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910779251303321

Autore

Creed Pamela <1969-, >

Titolo

Ethics, norms and the narratives of war : creating and encountering the enemy other / / Pamela Creed

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-25206-1

1-280-87432-5

9786613715630

1-136-25207-X

0-203-10502-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (177 p.)

Collana

War, Conflict and Ethics

Disciplina

355.0201

Soggetti

Iraq War, 2003-2011 - Moral and ethical aspects - United States

Soldiers - United States - Attitudes

Discourse analysis, Narrative

United States Armed Forces Iraq Attitudes

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of figures and tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: The making of an American war narrative; 1 From crisis to consensus; 2 Shifting storylines: enter Iraq; 3 The push toward preemptive war: from rhetoric to reality; Part II: Narrating ourselves into war; 4 Receiving the narrative; 5 Myth, memory and humiliation; Part III: Living the narrative; 6 Embracing uncertainty; 7 Between spaces: confusion and courage; 8 Conclusion; List of interviews; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines the ethics and values that render a war discourse normative, and features the stories of American soldiers who fought in the Iraq War to show how this narrative can change. The invasion of Iraq, launched in March 2003, was led by the United States under the now discredited claim that Iraq was developing weapons of mass destruction (WMD). However, critical questions concerning what we may be able to learn from this experience remain largely unexplored. The focus of this book, therefore, is on soldiers as systems of war - and the



internal battle many of them wage as

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910438088603321

Titolo

Employment Location in Cities and Regions : Models and Applications / / edited by Francesca Pagliara, Michiel de Bok, David Simmonds, Alan Wilson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2013

ISBN

1-283-84953-4

3-642-31779-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2013.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (293 p.)

Collana

Advances in Spatial Science, The Regional Science Series, , 2197-9375

Altri autori (Persone)

PagliaraFrancesca

Disciplina

331.1377

Soggetti

Regional economics

Spatial economics

Economic geography

Engineering design

Image processing - Digital techniques

Computer vision

Regional and Spatial Economics

Economic Geography

Engineering Design

Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- 1 Employment Location Models: An Overview -- Part I: Macro-Scale Approaches -- 2 Employment and Labour in Urban Markets: The IRPUD Model -- 3 Modelling the Economic Impacts of Transport Changes Experiences and Issues.- 4 A Population-Employment Interaction Model as Labour Module in TIGRIS XL.- 5 Simulating the Spatial Distribution of Employment in Large Cities: with Applications to Greater London.- 6 Complex Urban Systems



Integration: The LEAM Experiences in Coupling Economic, Land Use, and Transportation Models in Chicago, IL.- 7 Employment Location Modelling Within an Integrated Land Use and Transport Framework: Taking Cue from Policy Perspectives.- 8 Integrating SCGE and I-O in Multiregional Modelling.-  9 Interjurisdictional Competition and Land Development: A Micro-Level Analysis.- Part II: Micro-Scale Approaches -- 10 Occupation, Education and Social Inequalities: a Case Study Linking Survey Data Sources to an Urban Microsimulation Analysis -- 11 Firm location choice vs. job location choice in microscopic simulation models.- 12 Modelling Firm Failure: Towards Building a Firmographic Microsimulation Model -- 13 Choice set formation in microscopic firm location models.- 14 Employment Location Models: Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

The focus of this book is the modeling of the location of economic activities, measured in terms of employment, in land-use and transportation systems. These measures are key inputs to models at intra-urban scales of the flows of persons and goods for both urban and transport planning. The models described here are either components of comprehensive models or specialist studies. Economic activities can be defined in terms of jobs or private-sector firms and public service organisations. Different levels of aggregation are used both in terms of organisational and geographical dimensions. In the case of firms and public organizations, a distinction can be made between the organizations themselves and corresponding establishments. For urban simulation models, it is the location of establishments that is important. At the more coarse levels of aggregation that are usually used in comprehensive models, firms and organizations are aggregated into sectors.