Book description
The climate has changed and communities across America are living with the consequences: rapid sea level rise, multi-state wildfires, heat waves, and enduring drought. Living with Climate Change: How Communities Are Surviving and Thriving in a Changing Climate details the steps cities are taking now to protect lives and businesses, to reduce their vulnerability, and to adapt and make themselves more resilient.The authors included in this book have been directly involved in the successful design and implementation of community-based adaptation and resilience programs. In this book, they apply decades of combined experience in hazard risk reduction, climate change adaptation, and environmental protection to provide timely and practical advice on how to plan for and live with a climate that is changing faster and more erratically than predicted.The book also examines obstacles to local, state, and national action on climate change, includes case studies to illustrate smart, effective policies and practices that have already been put in place, and defines how these actions benefit the economy, the environment, and public health. Living with Climate Change provides much-needed guidance for finding and enacting solutions to immediate and future risks of climate change.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- 1 Overview of Process Improvement and the 3Ms
- 2 Change Leadership
- 3 Resistance to Change and Process Improvement
- 4 Process Improvement Methodologies
- 5 Roadmap for Process Improvement
- 6 Chartering the Process Improvement Work
- 7 Stakeholder Analysis
- 8 Finding the Root Causes, Improving, and Controlling
- 9 Utilizing the 3Ms: Measure, Manage to the Measure, and Make It Easier
- 10 What to Measure
- 11 Measure Risk to Achieve High Reliability
- 12 Measurement as a System
- 13 How to Share and Communicate Measurements
- 14 3Ms: Manage to the Measure
- 15 3Ms: Make It Easier
- 16 High Reliability
- 17 Summary
- Appendix 1: Roadmap for Performance Excellence™
- Appendix 2: Process Improvement Foundational Tools
- Appendix 3: The Emancipation Proclamation
- Appendix 4: Charter Template
- Appendix 5: Stakeholder Analysis Template
- Appendix 6: Hand Hygiene Data Collection Sheet
- Appendix 7: Hand Hygiene Compliance Chart for Posting
- Appendix 8: Measure: Data Collection Tool
- Appendix 9: FMEA Severity, Occurrence, Detection Tables
- Appendix 10: The Soda Drink Challenge to Learn Attribute Agreement Analysis
- Appendix 11: Gage Repeatability and Reproducibility Measurement System Analysis
- Index
Product information
- Title: Utilizing the 3Ms of Process Improvement
- Author(s):
- Release date: July 2017
- Publisher(s): Productivity Press
- ISBN: 9781439895658
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