Economics of specific sectors

Practical Finance for Property Investment provides readers with an introduction to the most fundamental concepts, principles, analytical methods, and tools useful for making investing and financing decisions regarding income-producing property.

This book explores a platform for insightful discussions and scientific discourse on various aspects of landslides and their risk management, with insights focused on the Himalayan states at a sub-regional level.

The author draws on his experience and expertise as a Senior Global Executive, CIO, Strategist, Scientist, and Inventor, to provide an in-depth look at the 'learning layer' a new business phenomenon that merges people and systems into a whole new operation and how it will transform the performance of any organization.

This book explains China's approach to carbon peaking and carbon neutrality.

Cities, Change, and Conflict was one of the first texts to embrace the perspective of political economy as its main explanatory framework, and then complement it with the rich contributions found in the human ecology perspective.

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 textbook covers microeconomic theory at the level of intermediate and advanced undergraduates.

Es wird zunächst ein Überblick über Modelle gegeben, die zur Bewertung sektoraler und gesamtwirtschaftlicher Kosten von Umweltpolitik eingesetzt werden.

Why we are poor and others are so very rich, indeed, why they are so rich when we are still very poor.

Many of the frontiers of environmental economics research are at the interface of large-scale and long-term environmental change with national and global economic systems.

Contributing to a better understanding of contemporary issues of environmental sustainability from a historical perspective, this book provides a cohesive and cogent account of the history of ecological economic thought.

Wind energy is the great success story of modern renewable energy.

California is synonymous with opportunity, prosperity, and natural beauty, but climate change will certainly influence the state's future.

The new volume aims to form the concept of the Russian Far East gas industry strategy, taking into account the entire range of interests, strategic trends, and opportunities.

The Routledge International Handbook ofHigher Education for Sustainable Development gives a systematic and comprehensive overview of existing and upcoming research approaches for higher education for sustainable development.

In Asia, there are a growing number of gigantic megacities, accompanied by a series of speculative and extravagant megaprojects.

Land use decisions in karst terrains can have immediate and serious impacts on the local landscape and groundwater resources.

The Scottish Referendum in September 2014 had significant and far-reaching consequences for the political settlement of the United Kingdom.

In an era of constant global change, companies are challenged to adapt quickly to evolving consumer demands and technological innovations.

Agroenergy: Renewable and Sustainable Energy presents developments in agroenergy.

Die vorliegende Studie untersucht den Zusammenhang von Bevölkerungswachstum und Umweltproblemen.

This is the first scholarly analysis that examines the development and achievements of the American community development movement.

Between 1930 and the mid-1970s, several thousand Canadian-born children were adopted by families in the United States.

Originally published in 1990, Urban Markets looks at how the informal sector of the economy should be encouraged to assist in the alleviation of problems of poverty and unemployment.

Rising fuel prices during recent years and the threat of global warming have reinforced public and scientific interest in the issue of sustainable energy, with the term sustainability understood as having economic, environmental and social dimensions.

Bringing together contributions from leading researchers, this volume reflects on the political, institutional and social factors that have shaped the recent expansion of wind energy, and to consider what lessons this experience may provide for the future expansion of other renewable technologies.

This book defends and articulates an "e;Engaged Buddhist"e; approach to economics as a response to the destructive effects of global capitalism.

This book - the first of two volumes- looks at episodes in American economic history from a public choice perspective.

Originally published in 1986.

This book aims to demonstrate the benefits of implementing Industry 4.

Marine extremes, as they are conceived of in this volume, encompass environments, activities, events and impacts.

In this book, first published in 1990, Judith Rees considers the spatial distribution of resource availability, development and consumption, and the distribution of resource-generated wealth and welfare.

Our behaviour in our own homes - our recycling habits, consumer choices and transport preferences - all have a huge impact on the environment locally and globally.

This book demonstrates a successful and sustainable model for value addition to millets from production to consumption.

This book applies cost-benefit analysis techniques in the management of environment and natural resources in developing countries of the Southeast Asian region and presents a compendium of studies conducted by researchers supported by the Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia (EEPSEA).

Labour in Transition (1992) examines the massive transformations undertaken by state socialist regimes at the end of the 1980s.

This book seeks to shed light on the role of environment-friendly transport accessibility in determining property prices in Chinese cities.

This thought-provoking, accessible book critically examines the dominant food regime on its own terms, by seriously asking whether we can afford cheap food and by exploring what exactly cheap food affords us.

American cities, once economic and social launch pads for their residents, are all too often plagued by poverty and decay.

This book introduces the concept of 'healthy healthcare' and posits that this new concept is necessary in light of a shortage of healthcare staff in the near future.

The Business of Greening, first published in 2000, debates the relationship between business and greening, and the future form this relationship could take.

Mounting evidence suggests that GDP growth is damaging the natural environment and unlikely to be ecologically sustainable in the long-run.

Water pollution control has been a top environmental policy priority of the world's most developed countries for decades, and the focus of significant regulation and public and private spending.

Recent Developments in Green Finance, Green Growth and Carbon Neutrality explains the role of green finance in transforming the global economy into a green and carbon neutral one.

On December 12th, 2015, at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change held in Paris, 195 countries adopted the first-ever universal and legally binding climate deal.