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1. Human Factors Methods and Sports Science

   A Practical Guide

   By Paul Salmon, Neville Anthony Stanton, Adam Gibbon, Daniel Jenkins, Guy H. Walker

   During the course of any sporting event, critical cognitive and physical tasks are performed within a dynamic, complex, collaborative system comprising multiple humans and artifacts, under pressurized, complex, and rapidly changing conditions. Highly skilled, well-trained individuals walk a fine...

   Published December 8th 2009 by CRC Press
2. Human Factors in the Design and Evaluation of Central Control Room Operations

   By Neville A. Stanton, Paul Salmon, Daniel Jenkins, Guy Walker

   Whether used for aviation, manufacturing, oil and gas extraction, energy distribution, nuclear or fossil fuel power generation, surveillance or security, all control rooms share two common features. The people operating them are often remote from the processes that they are monitoring and...

   Published November 17th 2009 by CRC Press
3. Architecture, Participation and Society

   Edited by Paul Jenkins, Leslie Forsyth

   How can architects best increase their engagement with building users and wider society to provide better architecture? Since the mid 1990s government policy has promoted the idea of greater social participation in the production and management of the built environment but there has...

   Published September 3rd 2009 by Routledge
4. Aviation Terrorism and Security

   2nd Edition

   By Paul Wilkinson, Brian Jenkins

   An acclaimed assessment of the shifting threats to aviation security. The contributors examine threats and vulnerabilities in the light of new developments and consider the prospects for strengthening the response at both national and international levels....

   Published April 30th 2007 by Routledge
5. Planning and Housing in the Rapidly Urbanising World

   By Paul Jenkins, Harry Smith, Ya Ping Wang

   Series: Housing, Planning and Design Series

   Written specifically as a teaching text and authored by a team of leading academics in the field, this is the first book to bring together the key issues of rapid urbanisation with approaches to planning and housing. Outlining and explaining core concepts from ‘informal settlements’ to ‘...

   Published November 21st 2006 by Routledge
6. Place Identity, Participation and Planning

   Edited by Cliff Hague, Paul Jenkins

   Series: RTPI Library Series

   The central concern of this book is place identity, and its representation and manipulation through planning. Place identity is of growing international concern, both in planning practice and in academic work. The issue is important to practitioners because of the impact of globalisation on notions...

   Published November 24th 2004 by Routledge
7. Urban Development and Civil Society

   The Role of Communities in Sustainable Cities

   By Michael Carley, Harry Smith

   Edited by Paul Jenkins

   The world's population is rapidly urbanizing but the affluence and development often associated with cities are far from equitably or sustainably distributed. Where it was once taken for granted that responsibility for urban development lay with the state, increasingly the emphasis has shifted to...

   Published September 30th 2000 by Routledge
8. Aviation Terrorism and Security

   By Paul Wilkinson, Brian Jenkins

   Series: Political Violence

   Published February 28th 1999 by Routledge