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Category : Community development, Urban
Languages : en
Pages : 226

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Author: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
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Category : Defense spending
Languages : en
Pages : 246

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Author: Intergovernmental Committee on Urban and Regional Research (Canada)
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ISBN: 9781895469844
Category : Plant shutdowns
Languages : en
Pages : 106

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Author: John E. Lynch
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429712790
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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Defense plant cutbacks and military base closures have affected hundreds of U.S. communities during the past twenty-five years. Tracing the recovery of four communities after large defense plant cutbacks and of one hundred communities after military base closures, the contributors analyze the transition from the production of military to civilian goods. The contributors examine the market potential of reusing defense industrial plants to produce civilian products within the one- to two-year period called for by economic conversion proponents, showing that the complex process needed to develop, test, and market an entirely new product requires a minimum of five years. They also review the wide range of economic development techniques available at the state and local level, conversion approaches in Western Europe, programs for displaced workers, and reasons why the economic conversion approach has failed to attract public support in the United States. The case studies are used to formulate an integrated, composite approach for coping with plant closures and major employment dislocations. Stressing the in portance of community-based economic adjustment activities, this book will be valuable to all concerned with mitigating the effects of military and civilian plant closures.

Author: John Portz
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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A paper reprint of the 1988 original. It is a political history that describes and analyzes the management of organized knowledge. Wheatley takes Flexner and the Carnegie Foundation of 1910 as the model. Portz (political science, Northeastern U.) combines a synthesis of the literature on urban politics and political economy with a close analysis of plant closings in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Louisville, Kentucky, and Waterloo, Iowa, to illuminate the complexity of, constraints upon, and range of local government efforts to control the economic damage caused by shutdowns. Paper edition (unseen), $12.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Military Installations and Facilities
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Category : Military bases
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Economic Stabilization
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Category : Diversification in industry
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Author: Lucy A. Arendt
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1040181643
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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Today, governmental efforts at long-term community recovery from a natural disaster consist primarily of rebuilding the physical artifact of the community. This entails reestablishing vital community services and infrastructure and creating housing to replace that which has been lost. While restoring the built environment of a disaster area is esse

Author: United States. Defense Secretary's Commission
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Category : Military bases
Languages : en
Pages : 92

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The Defense Secretary's Commission on Base Realignment and Closure was chartered on May 3, 1988 to recommend military installations within the United States, its commonwealths, territories, and possessions for realignment and closure. The Congress and the President subsequently endorsed this approach through legislation that removed some of the previous impediments to successful base-closure actions. This Commission's recommendations for closure and realignment affect 145 installations. Of this number, 86 are to be closed fully, five are to be closed in part, and 54 will experience a change, either an increase or a decrease, as units and activities are relocated. The Commission also makes several additional recommendations that address potential problems in implementing the Commission's closure and realignment recommendations and certain other matters that the Commission has discovered during its review of the military base structure.