Ruth Bleasdale. Rough Work: Labourers on the Public Works of British North American and Canada, 1841–1882

The Lake Rudolf Rift Valley Expedition was designed to carry out many different lines of investigation in the Lake Rudolf Basin. One of the chief of these was a study of the geological history of that part of the East African Rift Valley. The expedition was assisted financially by The Royal Society, The Geological Society of London, The Royal Geographical Society, The Percy Sladen Trustees and the Geographical and Geological Sections of the British Association. A general description of the activities of the Expedition was given in a paper read before the Royal Geographical Society (Fuchs 1935). Owing to the tragic loss of two members of the expedition, Dr W. S. Dyson and Mr W. R. H. Martin, two fruitless months were spent searching for them. Consequently a great amount of the work planned for the east side of the lake had to be abandoned. Nevertheless, the considerable distance travelled within the 50,000 sq. miles of the Rudolf Basin has enabled me to make out the chief events of its geological history. I am very much indebted to all those who assisted us in the field and at home, in particular to the Kenya Government, the Officers of the King’s African Rifles, and Mr H. L. Sikes of the Public Works Department; I would also like to thank Mr A. M. Champion, Provincial Commissioner of Turkana, who wholeheartedly assisted us in every way possible both in the field and at home, for he has placed at my disposal his own excellent topographical maps and his extensive observations on the geology of the area. I am also deeply indebted to Professor O. T. Jones, Mr Henry Woods and Mr W. Campbell Smith for their criticisms. Mr Campbell Smith has also given me provisional identifications of the rocks.

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The British government, sir Edmund head, and British North American confederation, 1858

The Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History ◽

10.1080/03086537608582459 ◽

1976 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 206-217 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Bruce A. Knox

Keyword(s):

North American ◽

British Government ◽

British North American

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Cleaning Streams in Cook County, IL: Forest Preserves, Water Pollution, and Interwar Environmentalism in the Chicago Region

Journal of Planning History ◽

10.1177/15385132211046219 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 153851322110462

Author(s):

Natalie B. Vena

Keyword(s):

Water Pollution ◽

Sewage Treatment ◽

Cook County ◽

Public Works ◽

Metropolitan Region ◽

The Public ◽

Staff Members ◽

American Cities ◽

Forest Preserves ◽

Forest Preserve

In 1916, the Forest Preserve District of Cook County began acquiring land to create a natural retreat for Chicagoans in that booming metropolitan region. Since district officials acquired many properties along county streams, water pollution soon interfered with their mission of creating an urban wilderness for recreational pleasure. To address the problem, in 1931, county leaders appointed the Clean Streams Advisory Committee that collaborated with forest preserve staff members to pressure polluters to clean-up their operations and to persuade enforcement agencies to prosecute ongoing offenders. They also lobbied the Public Works Administration to earmark New Deal funding for sewage treatment in Cook County. Their efforts suggest that early activism against water pollution in American cities emerged not only from efforts to ensure clean drinking water, but also struggles to protect nature. The interwar campaign to clean forest preserve streams anticipated the goals of the federal Clean Water Act (1972) to make all American waterways fishable and swimmable. The movement also preceded the burst of anti-pollution activism that historians have documented in U.S. suburbs after WWII and laid the groundwork for postwar efforts to mitigate water pollution in Cook County.

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Influence of Employee Discipline, Learning and Supervision on the Service Performance of Public Works in Bina Marga Office of Ponorogo Regency

Research Horizon ◽

10.54518/rh.1.4.2021.143-149 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 1 (4) ◽

pp. 143-149

Author(s):

Noer Soetjipto ◽

Gogi Kurniawan ◽

Sulastri Sulastri ◽

Ari Riswanto

Keyword(s):

Organizational Learning ◽

Service Performance ◽

Public Works ◽

Learning Behavior ◽

Managerial Implication ◽

Service Employees ◽

The Public ◽

Employee Discipline ◽

Measuring Tool ◽

Simultaneous Influence

This study aims to the influence of employee discipline, learning and supervision on the service performance of public works in Bina Marga office of Ponorogo Regency. The results showed the simultaneous influence of discipline and organizational learning behavior on the performance. The results empirically prove that discipline and organizational learning behavior is highly relevant as a measuring tool with sufficient accuracy to determine the service performance of service employees in the Public Works and Bina Marga Office of Ponorogo Regency. The simultaneous influence of employee discipline with learning behavior of organization on employees in the licensing sector at PU in Ponorogo Regency which has an impact on the performance or performance of public services can be illustrated that Public Works Department employees as a learning organization are not far from the mindset that only senior management can and do all the thinking for the whole institution. The learning behavior of organization challenges all employees to utilize their mental resources and potential, with the hope that every employee in the PU office can build their own community based on the principles of freedom, humanity, and a collective desire to learn. As a managerial implication, it can be said that discipline in the work process at the Ponorogo District Public Works office goes hand in hand with the willingness of employees to increas discipline and organizational learning behavior which are correlated to form service performance

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Contractorâ€™s Perception of the Use of Statistical Approach in the Tender Evaluation at the Public Works Department, Malaysia

American Journal of Applied Sciences ◽

10.3844/ajassp.2007.1084.1089 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 4 (12) ◽

pp. 1084-1089 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Faridah Muhamad Halil

Keyword(s):

Statistical Approach ◽

Public Works ◽

The Public ◽

Tender Evaluation

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Captive-reared migratory monarch butterflies show natural orientation when released in the wild

10.1101/2020.01.24.919027 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Alana A. E. Wilcox ◽

Amy E. M. Newman ◽

Nigel E. Raine ◽

D. Ryan Norris

Keyword(s):

North American ◽

Danaus Plexippus ◽

Release Site ◽

Flight Simulator ◽

Monarch Butterflies ◽

The Public ◽

In The Wild ◽

Automated Telemetry ◽

Proper Orientation ◽

Captive Rearing

AbstractEastern North American migratory monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) have faced sharp declines over the last two decades. Although captive rearing has been used as an important tool for engaging the public and supplementing conservation efforts, a recent study that tested monarchs in a flight simulator suggested that captive-reared monarchs lose their capacity to orient southward during fall migration to their Mexican overwintering sites. We raised offspring of wild-caught monarchs on swamp milkweed (Asclepias incarnata) and, after eclosion, individuals were either tested in a flight simulator or radio-tracked in the wild using array of over 100 automated telemetry towers. While only 33% (7/39) of monarchs tested in the flight simulator showed strong southeast to southwest orientation, 97% (28/29) of the radio-tracked individuals were detected by automated towers south or southeast of the release site, up to 200 km away. Our results suggest that, though captive rearing of monarch butterflies may cause temporary disorientation, proper orientation is likely re-established after exposure to natural skylight cues.

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