Economics of specific sectors

In the 1980s and 1990s successive United Kingdom governments enacted a series of reforms to establish a more market-oriented economy, closer to the American model and further away from its Western European competitors.

This two-volume set presents the conference papers from the 2023 iteration of the International Conference on Economics, Development and Sustainability (EDESUS 2023), organized by the VNU University of Economics and Business, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.

This book discusses human factors research directed towards realizing and assessing sustainability in the built environment.

The solutions and tools generally offered to policymakers on environmental issues - such as carbon pricing and environmental taxation - most often emanate from neoclassical economists.

Household vulnerability to weather shocks and changing climatic conditions has become a major concern in developing countries.

This book provides an innovative approach to understanding the governance of resource communities, by showcasing how the past and present informs the future.

In this compilation of David Suzuki's latest thoughts and writings, the renowned scientist, author, and broadcaster explores the myriad environmental challenges the world faces and their interconnected causes.

Eco-innovations are crucial for reducing the environmental damages arising from economic activities, and are one of the main drivers of a successful transition towards sustainable development and remedying essential climate change problems.

The multidisciplinary edited book Visions and Strategies for a Sustainable Economy: Theoretical and Policy Alternatives provides a thorough examination - at the theoretical and, especially, policy levels - of a number of key topics related to a sustainable economy and a better society.

"e;This Handbook offers a timely 'snapshot' of the fast-moving global debates on Basic Income.

Managing Resource Abundance and Wealth: The Norwegian Experience describes the sundry and significant challenges, both economic and political, facing petroleum-producing countries.

Originally published in 1985, this volume of essays was compiled in honour of Gordon Manley, a major and distinctive twentieth-century figure in climatology.

Environment, Social, Governance (ESG) has become the noun, verb, and adjective of the modern business era.

Economic archaeology and ancient economic history have boomed the past decades.

This book highlights recent findings in civil and environmental engineering and urban planning, and provides an overview of the state of the art in these fields, mainly in Russia and Eastern Europe.

This book is the result of over ten years of field research across Zambia.

Natural Resource Economics: The Essentials offers a policy-oriented approach to the increasingly influential field of natural resource economics that is based upon a solid foundation of economic theory and empirical research.

Fostering inclusive green growth in Africa means addressing existing and emerging development challenges, while efficiently managing Africa's natural capital and building resilience to environmental, social and economic risks.

This book asks, how would a stable, prosperous economy of the future look if one started with a blank sheet of paper?

Growth, Employment, Inequality, and the Environment deals with the fundamental economic problems of our time: employment, inequality, the environment, and quality of life.

Feeding the world's growing human population is increasingly challenging, especially as more people adopt a western diet and lifestyle.

The four decades of neoliberalism, globalisation and financialisation have produced crises - financial and pandemic - and rising inequality.

Die Veränderung des Weltklimas infolge des anthropogen verstärkten Treibhauseffekts und die prognostizierten Finanzierungsnöte der Pensionsversicherungen geben Anlaß zu großer Sorge.

Due to new production areas and persistent productivity gains, Brazil has consolidated its position as a global leader and even as a 'model' of commercial, integrated crop production.

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This comprehensive volume provides the first book-length account on the politics of fossil fuel subsidies.

Change and development are going on all around us.

An international and historical look at how parenting choices change in the face of economic inequalityParents everywhere want their children to be happy and do well.

One of the major considerations of any environmental resource project must be the effect on human well-being; originally published in 1979, this study aims to deal specifically with the transmission of Schistosomiasis as a human environmental impact.

In 2001 Germany and Austria became the last EU states to lift transnational controls restricting access to their labour markets for citizens of ex-communist countries.

This collection brings together leading economists from around the world to explore key issues in economic analysis and the history of economic thought.

The Millennium Development Goals, adopted at the UN Millennium Summit in 2000, are the world's targets for dramatically reducing extreme poverty in its many dimensions by 2015 income poverty, hunger, disease, exclusion, lack of infrastructure and shelter while promoting gender equality, education, health and environmental sustainability.

Biological invasions are one of the strongest drivers of global environmental change, and invasive species are now often in the public discourse.

Das Buch stellt die Anforderungen der ISO 50001 als Grundlage für eine Zertifizierung dar.

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Fair and efficient pricing has become increasingly important in international environmental and transport policy.

Aquaculture technology has been evolving rapidly over the last two decades, led by an increasingly skilled cadre of researchers in developing countries.

Environmental finance and green banking are central drivers of the transition to a sustainable economy and essential components in solutions to climate change.

This book provides a hands-on introduction to Machine Learning (ML) from a multidisciplinary perspective that does not require a background in data science or computer science.

There is a lack of international comparative housing studies, possibly because it requires thorough knowledge of the real estate market in question.

Originally published in 1980, Urbanization in Socialist Countries addresses the complex situation in urban policy development in European Socialist countries.

This book examines the power relations that emerge from the convergence of the universe in which the sporting spectacle is produced and the universe in which a city is produced.

This book provides an introduction to the relationship between economics and ethics, explaining why ethics enters economics, how ethics affects individual economic behaviour and the interactions of individuals, and how ethics is important in evaluating the performance of economies and of economic policies.

The world has become increasingly separated into the haves and have-nots.

As a forester interested in economics and policy, Daowei Zhang followed the softwood lumber dispute between the U.

For some, recycling is a big business; for others a moralised way of engaging with the world.