White paper

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Reforming the police: from local service to state police?

Abstract: IN June 1993 the government published proposals for the structure of the police under the title Police Reform: A Police Service for the Twenty-first Century. I Introducing the White Paper, the then Home Secretary made reference to the need to bring police work ‘up-to-date’, by strengthening the role of local police authorities and providing greater freedom for chief officers to manage the service. He also made clear that the government wanted to play its part by setting key police priorities. This reflected aview that the police spent too little time fighting crime, which needed to be a clear priority for all police forces. Following on from the White Paper, an internal review was established to identlfy ‘core’ and ‘ancillary’ police duties. The objective was to identify those ancillary tasks which might be given to private security companies where that was appropriate. This would enable the police service to focus on core crime-fighting functions.*

Multifunctionality of Forests: A White Paper on Challenges and Opportunities in China and Germany

Abstract: Both in Germany and in China, there is strong expertise regarding the different aspects of forest management, as well as forest products management. Nevertheless, forestry in both countries is facing challenges, some of which are regional, but many of which are shared. Therefore, experts from both countries (Technical University of Munich Germany; Northwest AF Forestry Academy of Shaanxi, China; Thunen Institut, Germany; FEDRC GIZ Forest Policy Facility (Forestry Economics Development and Research Center of the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH), Germany; and Center for Natural Forest Protection in Shaanxi, China) met to share their knowledge and deduce recommendations for future multifunctional forest management for the temperate zone. The workshop, held at the Northwest A&F University in September 2018, included presentations and intensive discussions, as well as a field tour. The results of the workshop that are summarized in this white paper are meant to provide an overview of the multi-faceted nature of the topic for interested scientists and forest practitioners, describe tools that can be used to analyze various aspects of multifunctionality and, in an exemplary fashion, highlight gathered experience from long- and short-term experiments. Included are social demands, economic goals, and scientific baselines. The topics reach from economic evaluations of forest ecosystem services over forest management practices, including afforestation, restoration, and preparations to face climate change, to wood/forest products utilization and participation of local people for poverty reduction. Overall, an optimistic picture emerges, showing that by using adapted forest management practices, which try to embrace the concept of multifunctionality, various use schemes and demands can be integrated at single sites, allowing us to achieve both environmental protection and productive forests, including societal demands, as well as aspects of tradition and national identity.

Use of social media by the library: Current practices and future opportunities. A white paper from Taylor & Francis

Abstract: This document exists because ALJ publishers Taylor & Francis commissioned UK scholarly communications marketing specialists tbi Communications (www.tbicommunications.com) to ‘provide an overview of...