Economics of specific sectors

The book reflects on how intelligent urban regeneration can be an extraordinary driver of sustainable social and economic progress.

An authoritative and comprehensive volume of knowledge and green technologies wholly focused on the future of the bioeconomy.

Why Enlightenment culture sparked the Industrial RevolutionDuring the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Revolution and the sustained economic progress that spread across the globe.

This book examines the inclusiveness of city planning and design to address gaps in policies, strategies and design guidelines for developing trans-generational urban communities in India.

The first edition of this important work was the winner of the 2002 Publication of Enduring Quality award by the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.

Dieser Herausgeberband schafft einen Überblick darüber, wie Betriebliches Gesundheitsmanagement neue Trends aus der Unternehmenspraxis und Forschung aufgreifen und erfolgreich umsetzen kann.

This book compiles examples of the most widely used tools  in agricultural economics that have been developed and used to analyze the impact of global change in agricultural activity.

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

The Green City and Social Injustice examines the recent urban environmental trajectory of 21 cities in Europe and North America over a 20-year period.

During the past three decades of rapid industrial growth, China has suffered from devastating environmental degradation.

This book examines the unexpected convergence between the higher education systems of India and France.

This book deals with the basic question of what money can and cannot buy and offers an analysis of the limitations of the market mechanism.

Today, universities serve as the economic engines and cultural centers of many U.

Science, Technology and Society: Needs, Challenges and Limitations focuses on the role of science and technology in promoting development as well as its limitation in shaping the society.

Originally published in 1994, this book links the distant past with the urgent problems of today, taking the reader on a literary and scientific tour of global pollution from pre-history to the post-industrial age.

Cultures of Sustainability and Wellbeing: Theories, Histories and Policies examines and assesses the interdependence between sustainability and wellbeing by drawing attention to humans as producers and consumers in a post-human age.

Based on a variety of interviews with residents, farmers, scientists, journalists, and activists who have been affected by the Fukushima catastrophe, the authors underscore the personal, political, and humanitarian impacts in testimonies, science, and photos.

This textbook provides an introduction to the concept of sustainability in the context of transportation planning, management, and decision-making.

By making available the almost unlimited energy stored in prehistoric plant matter, coal enabled the industrial age and it still does.

Homeopathy is over 200 years old and is still experiencing an uninterrupted influx of new practitioners and patients.

The Western powers established the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank after World War II as "e;permanent machinery"e; to anchor the Bretton Woods system.

This book explores the significance of the peach as a cultural icon and viable commodity in the American South.

The main aim of this book is to provide a state of the art of the Levelized Cost of Energy calculation for energy communities from both a theoretical, defining a systematic analysis approach, and a practical point of view, providing results for three representative real case studies.

This title was first published in 2003.

The Uses of Social Investment provides the first study of the welfare state, under the new post-crisis austerity context and associated crisis management politics, to take stock of the limits and potential of social investment.

This book is an unusual attempt to study urban regeneration.

This book addresses the relationship between high school students' HIV and AIDS knowledge and their stigma-related attitudes/perceptions of people living with HIV (PLHIV) in the Caribbean and South Pacific, with a view to designing effective stigma-reduction combined intervention programs.

How does public transport work in an African city under neoliberalism?

The author examines the two most advanced eco-city projects: the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City in China, and Masdar City in Abu Dhabi.

This book provides a broad overview of how sustainability reporting has grown, how it is used now and where it is heading.

First published in 1989, The Undeserving Poor was a critically acclaimed and enormously influential account of America's enduring debate about poverty.

The capacity of mixed forests to mitigate climate change effects by increasing resilience and lowering risks is pinpointed as an opportunity to highlight the role of tree species rich forests as part of complex socio-ecological systems.

This volume is the first to address multilingual healthcare communication around the globe and focuses on institutional, social and linguistic challenges and resources of the healthcare industry.

Energy costs in the economy amount to only a few percent of gross domestic product, but their importance to economic growth is much greater than their apparent number.

'Marshall has re-grafted economics to the philosophical roots of collaborative environmental management, given stakeholders a pragmatic economics for 'bottom-up' conflict resolution and eliminated the need for 'top-down' economic experts.

This book describes the Sustainable High Quality Healthcare (SustHealth) project, which had the goal of developing an original multidisciplinary evaluation tool that can be applied to assess and improve hospitals' overall sustainability.

This book addresses current practices related to sustainable development, its challenges and the future.

With rapidly declining costs and seemingly unlimited sunshine, the choice of solar in Australia seems obvious.

First Published in 2011.

This book fills a major gap in research into smoking and tobacco control in China.

A novel, interdisciplinary account of the global politics of producing, financing, governing and mobilising energy system transformation.

Transportation contributes to roughly a fifth of greenhouse gas emissions, and as a growing sector of the economy, its contribution to climate change, if remained unchanged, could even grow.

Originally published in 1996.