Economics of specific sectors

This book provides a comprehensive overview of current renewable energy technologies and their basic principles.

This book explores the perilous situation that faced the Detroit Institute of Arts during the city's bankruptcy, when creditors considered it a "e;nonessential asset"e; that might be sold to settle Detroit's debts.

This book demonstrates how GIS techniques and statistical methods can be used to emphasise the characteristics of population and its related variables, vis-a-vis care facilities and the status of vector borne diseases, as well as for malaria modeling.

This book presents a set of original and innovative contributions on state, institutions and democracy in the field of political economy.

This book examines the phenomenon of urban fear - the increasing anxiety over crime and violence in Western cities despite their high safety - with a view to developing a comprehensive, critical, exploratory theory of fear, space, and urban planning that unravels the paradoxes of their mutual relations.

This informative volume synthesizes the literatures on health economics, risk management, and health services into a concise guide to the financial and social basics of health insurance with an eye to its wide-scale upgrade.

This ambitious volume sets out to understand how every company impacts public health and introduces a robust model, rooted in organizational and scientific knowledge, for companies committed to making positive contributions to health and wellness.

This book traces the genesis, principles and practice of homeopathy, and discusses the reasons for its enduring popularity.

This book engages theoretically and empirically with the unprecedented wave of public management reforms in public hospitals in Europe in the past 25 years.

This book describes how assistive technology can help handicapped, elderly and acutely sick people to manage their daily lives better and stay safe in the home.

This book provides an insightful and critical assessment of the state of Canadian water governance and policy.

This book focuses on novel reduced cell and stack models for proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) and planar solid oxide fuel cells (P-SOFCs) that serve to reduce the computational cost by two orders of magnitude or more with desired numerical accuracy, while capturing both the average properties and the variability of the dependent variables in the 3D counterparts.

The first volume of the International Yearbook of Soil Law and Policy includes an important discussion on the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals that are the basis for the post-2015 development agenda up to the year 2030; the Yearbook focuses in particular on Goal 15, which includes achieving a "e;land degradation-neutral world.

This book was written for anyone wishing to understand how sustainable scenarios emerge from current innovations.

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

This book introduces readers to neo-mercantile planning theory in the context of spatial regional integration in Africa.

This volume provides the most current research on smart cities.

This book explores the impact on EU member states of intensified European cooperation in the field of vocational education and training.

Why aren't we investing more in disaster resilience, despite the rising costs of disaster events?

This book presents a collection of papers illustrating the variety of "e;experimental"e; methodologies used to study voting.

This Brief proposes a new theory of public economics which deemphasizes reliance on the free market and affirms the importance of public goods and services within the context of the democratic process and constitutional governance.

This book shows the capabilities of Microsoft Excel in teaching health services management statistics effectively.

This book analyses the links between climate change adaptation, resilience and the impacts of hazards.

Focused on renewable energy systems and the development of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for their integration in smart grids, this book presents recent advances and methods that help to ensure that power generation from renewable sources remains stable, that power losses are minimized, and that the reliable functioning of these power generation units is maintained.

This book explores recent developments in the theory, strategic perspective and international practice of corporate social responsibility.

State of the art in sustainability thinking, inspired by interdisciplinary ideas of ecological economics.

This book investigates the role that interest groups have played over the years in influencing the government of Namibia, the World Bank, the European Union and project implementation authorities to not construct the proposed Epupa Hydroelectric Power Station on the Kunene River in the Baynes mountains, a region on the border between Namibia and Angola.

In this volume, scientists and practitioners write about new methods and technologies for improving the operation of health care organizations.

This book investigates the current status and future prospects of energy relationships in the Euro-Mediterranean region.

This volume explores why Americans are among the least likely in the world to speak another language and how this U.

Employing a practice theoretical approach, this study centers on how German multinational enterprises transfer three selected production-related training practices to their subsidiaries in emerging economies: onboarding of new employees, shop floor inducting of machine operators, and German-style dual apprenticeship training for specialized technicians.

This book introduces the readers to the new concept of cognitive cities.

This timely reference analyzes the rationale, impact, and feasibility of taxation of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) as a public health measure to contribute curbing obesity and diabetes rates, specifically in Canada.

This book presents cutting edge research on the new ethical challenges posed by biomedical Big Data technologies and practices.

This book provides a comprehensive, updated summary of research evidence on the effects of stressful working and employment conditions on workers' health, as based on one of the worldwide leading theoretical models, effort-reward imbalance.

This book aims at exploring the link between corporate and organizational culture, public and private policies, leadership and managerial skills or attitudes, and the successful implementation of work-related healthcare in Europe.

This fourth revised edition sets out to analyze and compare the operational mechanisms of the Chinese economy between the pre- and post-reform periods and through national, regional and local dimensions.

This book examines how privatization has transformed cities, particularly through the role of Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) in the revitalization of America's downtown.

This book analyses how socially responsible investments as well as the rising importance of Islamic finance are linked to the shift towards renewable energy.

This book discusses the economic, political, and environmental issues surrounding the international exploration and exploitation of conventional and unconventional natural gas.

This book documents the advantages and limitations of various electricity generation methods.

This book presents an economic cost-benefit assessment of the penetration of renewable power generation in Cyprus up to 2030.

This collection challenges the popular but abstract concept of nudging, demonstrating the real-world application of behavioral economics in policy-making and technology.

Given the rapid spread of ETSs in an increasing number of countries and the important role that they are likely to play for the success or failure of the environmental policy in the years to come, this book provides an interdisciplinary analysis of the EU ETS from both the legal and economic perspectives comparing it with the other main ETSs existing worldwide, in order to assess whether the EU ETS has truly represented a prototype for the other ETSs established around the world and to investigate the current perspectives for linking them in the future.

This book provides an in-depth economic analysis of the challenges associated with bioenergy use and production.

This book focuses on how to lead transformative and strategic change in the healthcare industry in times of great uncertainty.

This book analyzes how climate change adaptation can be implemented at the community, regional and national level.

This Brief presents a benefit-cost analysis of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) as well as an evaluation of its cumulative socioeconomic effects.

Thisbook shows how Microsoft Excel is able to teach healthservices management statistics effectively.

Presenting a comprehensive analysis of the use of alternative sources of energy and technologies to produce fuels and power, this book describes the energy value chain from harvesting the raw material, (i.