Economics of specific sectors

This book discusses the regulatory and trade challenges facing the global adoption of biotechnological products and offers strategies for overcoming these obstacles and moving towards greater global food security.

This book discusses and explains the economics of each stage of the natural gas value chain, including the economic impact of restrictions, rules and decisions that are ostensibly technical in nature, as well as commercially relevant contractual stipulations.

This books focuses on co-design, and more specifically, on the various forms co-design might take to tackle the most pressing societal challenges, introducing public-interest services as the main application field.

This book is an analysis of energy and food subsidies in the MENA region between 2010 and 2014.

This collection gathers some of the greatest minds in economics to discuss their experiences of collaborative research and publication.

This book explores the parallels between the Renaissance during the 14th to 16th centuries and the upheavals in human and physical sciences in the 21st Century that herald an insurgent entrepreneurial renaissance.

This book challenges the idea that a sharp boundary should be drawn between the state and civil society.

This book discusses globalization and its impact on human health.

This book addresses the livelihood impacts of climate change, vulnerability and adaptation measures on the forest dependent communities of India.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of energy sectors in emerging African and Latin American nations, providing a one-stop source of information and analysis of energy sectors that differ radically from those of developed countries.

This is the first study to draw on international research carried out across four EU member states to add to the neglected area of the creative economy of peripheral regions.

This book identifies the main challenges to confronting global health (in)securities at three levels.

This book provides an overview of urban transformations taking place in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in the last three decades.

This book examines Warren, a suburb of Detroit, Michigan, as a shrinking city facing a crisis of economic downturn, automotive restructuring, high unemployment, and real estate foreclosures.

This book examines the water-related impacts of climate change in the UNESCO Intercontinental Biosphere Reserve of the Mediterranean (IBRM) straddling Spain and Morocco.

This book introduces the Eora, Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) and World Input-Output (WIOD) databases and provides detailed metadata on the data sources, database structures and construction techniques used to build each system.

This book explores statistical models in regional specialization, presenting a brand new measure.

This book shows how the systems approach is employed by scientists in various countries to solve specific problems concerning railway transport.

This proceedings volume presents current research on transport sector development, with particular emphasis on sustainable transport development, innovation and transport enterprise growth and survival.

This book argues that economists need to reengage with societal issues, such as justice and fairness in distribution, that inevitably arise when discussing the basic economic problem of unlimited human wants and finite resources.

This book investigates the powerful role of online intermediaries, which connect companies with their end customers, to facilitate joint product innovation.

This book provides an evaluation of 18 voting procedures in terms of the most important monotonicity-related criteria in fixed and variable electorates.

This book provides a robust set of health economic principles and methods to inform societal decisions in relation to research, reimbursement and regulation (pricing and monitoring of performance in practice).

This volume deals with the construction of categorizations of health at work on the basis of individuals' perceptions and analyses of the psychosocial health effects at their work.

Taking eleven countries in Europe, Canada, South Africa, America, Latin America and Australia, this book discusses recurring barriers to cluster development in the renewable energy sector.

This important textbook has been revised and updated to continue its focus on the link between ethics and economic policy analysis, whilst ensuring that perspectives addressing the moral limits of the market, latest behavioural economics literature, and the changes in inequality over the years are included.

This book focuses on the relationship between the state and economy in the development of cities.

This book showcases vital lessons learned from research, field projects and best practice examples with regard to climate change adaptation in countries throughout the Pacific region, a part of the planet that is particularly vulnerable to and affected by climate change.

This book describes and analyses necessities for a more resource-efficient world.

This state-of-the art collection of papers analyses various aspects of the theory of externalities and public goods.

This book, comprised of entirely original research, collects data on the socioeconomic situation of China's 56 ethnic groups.

This book examines ways of assessing the rational management of nonrenewable resources.

This book brings together research relating to the economics of higher education in Ireland and presents evidence that will help support policy decision making.

This proceedings volume aims to provide new research methods, theories and applications from various areas of applied economic research.

This book addresses the potential of the transformation of biomass into a wide range of marketable products, and examines the biological, biochemical, physical and thermal processing of biomass into products such as fuels, power, heat, feeds, chemicals and materials.

This edited volume proposes that the phenomenon of private sector, financialized higher education expansion in the United States benefits from a range of theoretical and methodological treatments.

This title discusses the phenomenon of smoking as a behavioural disease and the associated costs.

This book examines the design of two care pathways to establish how key principles associated with systems thinking, quality improvement, and supply chain management can improve the design of these services.

This book describes how the creation of new digital services-through vertical and horizontal integration of data coming from sensors on top of existing legacy systems-that has already had a major impact on industry is now extending to healthcare.

This book provides research that shows tropical cyclones are more powerful than in the past with the most dramatic increases occurring over the North Atlantic and with the strongest hurricanes.

This book describes structural analysis methods for examining energy demand and energy efficiency that are important in formulating regional economic and environmental policies.

This volume explores the links between the rapidly growing phenomenon of social entrepreneurship (SE) and the international tourism and hospitality industry.

This book demonstrates how to successfully manage and lead healthcare institutions by employing the logic of business model innovation to gain competitive advantages.

This book addresses some of the major issues facing postal and delivery services throughout the world.

In a series of essays, this book describes and analyzes the concept and theory of the recent smart city phenomenon from a global perspective, with a focus on its implementation around the world.

This book is a social-ecological system description and feedback analysis of the Lake Tana Basin, the headwater catchment of the Upper Blue Nile River.

This book studies the impact of cleavages on electoral choices.

This volume collects papers presented at the International 100% Renewable Energy Conferences (IRENEC) from 2011 to 2015.

These lectures aim to help readers understand the logics and nature of the main indicators of inequality and poverty, with special attention to their social welfare underpinnings.

This book describes the importance of integration and clustering in creating sustainable economic growth.