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"From Meteorite Impact to Constellation City is a historical geography of the City of Greater Sudbury. The story that began billions of years ago encompasses dramatic physical and human events. Among them are volcanic eruptions, two meteorite impacts, the ebb and flow of continental glaciers, Aboriginal occupancy, exploration and mapping by Europeans, exploitation by fur traders and Canadian lumbermen and American entrepreneurs, the rise of global mining giants, unionism, pollution and re-greening, and the creation of a unique constellation city of 160,000. The title posits the book's two main themes, one physical in nature and the other human: the great meteorite impact of some 1.85 billion years ago and the development of Sudbury from its inception in 1883. Unlike other large centres in Canada that exhibit a metropolitan form of development with a core and surrounding suburbs, Sudbury developed in a pattern resembling a cluster of stars of differing sizes." "Many of Sudbury's most characteristic attributes are undergoing transformation. Its rocky terrain and the negative impact from mining companies are giving way to attractive neighbourhoods and the planting of millions of trees. Greater Sudbury's blue-collar image as a union powerhouse in a one-industry town is also changing; recent advances in the fields of health, education, retailing, and the local and international mining supply and services sector have greatly diversified its employment base. This book shows how Sudbury evolved from a village to become the regional centre for northeastern Ontario and a global model for economic diversification and environmental rehabilitation."--publisher.

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The Greater China Australia Dialogue on Public Administration has held annual workshops since 2011 on public administration themes of common interest to the Peoples Republic of China, Taiwan and Australia. This book presents and discusses a selection of papers developed from the Dialogues fifth workshop held in late 2015 hosted by the National Taiwan University in Taipei. The theme, Value for Money, focused on budget and financial management reforms, including how different nations account for the relative performance of their public sectors. All governments face the challenge of scarce resources requiring budgetary management processes for identifying the resources required by and available to government, and then for allocating them and ensuring their use or deployment represents value for money. Such budgetary and financial management processes need to inform decision making routinely and protect the integrity of the way public resources are used with some public accountability to indicate that their uses are properly authorised and reflect the policies of legitimate government leaders. The chapters in this book explore budgeting and financial management in three very different jurisdictions: Australia, the Peoples Republic of China and the Republic of China (Taiwan). These activist and at times innovative countries are keen to analyse and reflect upon each others policy achievements and patterns of public provision. They are keen to learn more about each other as their economic and social engagement continues to deepen. They are also conscious that fundamental differences exist in terms of economic development and global strategic positioning, and levels and philosophies of political development; to an extent these differences are representative of differences amongst countries around the globe.

Budget --- Finance, Public --- Budgeting --- E-books --- Expenditures, Public --- Forecasting --- public administration --- australia --- financial management --- asia --- budget management --- Accountability --- Audit --- China --- Infrastructure --- Research and development --- Taiwan --- Sudbury (Ont.) --- Politics and government. --- Metropolitan government --- Board of directors --- Business --- Census geographic units of canada --- Economy --- Employment --- Finance --- Governance --- Greater sudbury --- Inflation --- Merger (politics)