Economics of specific sectors

A COMPLETE UPDATE AND REVISION OF THE CLASSIC TEXT"e;At last, a manual of operations for comparing the cost-effectiveness of a preventive service with a treatment intervention.

Originally published in 1987.

Bisherige Bemühungen, dem Arbeitskräftemangel in den Sektoren mit Berührungspunkten zu Mathematik, Informatik, Naturwissenschaften und Technik (MINT) entgegenzuwirken, erweisen sich als wenig erfolgreich.

Telemental Health in Resource-Limited Global Settings is a collaborative edited book that aims to introduce the reader to experiences of using the technology in providing mental health care, education and Capacity building approaches in resource limited settings around the globe.

This textbook provides an introduction to environmental finance and investments.

This handbook is based on the premise that in order for sustainability to be sustainable, a profound psychological transformation has to take place at the individual and collective level.

Oil Companies in the International System (1978) provides an original and wide-ranging examination of the impact that the leading oil companies have had on international relations.

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

This book presents the integrating of economics and urban geography to create a framework of cooperation around the idea of urban economic stability.

This book examines the potential to deploy low-cost, three-dimensional printers known as RepRaps in developing countries to fabricate surgical instruments and medical supplies to combat the "e;global surgical burden of disease.

This highly readable yet challenging book provides a critical examination of the failings of mainstream economics and the resultant environmental problems we are facing.

Humans have long neglected to fully consider the impact of their behaviour on the environment.

In a world of climate change and declining oil supplies, what is the plan for the provisioning of resources?

This book, based on extensive international collaborative research, highlights the state-of-the-art design of "e;smart living"e; for metropolises, megacities, and metacities, as well as at the community and neighbourhood level.

We urgently need to transform to a low carbon society, yet our progress is painfully slow, in part because there is widespread public concern that this will require sacrifice and high costs.

Once held up as a 'poster child' for untrammeled capitalist globalisation, the Irish Republic has more recently come to represent a cautionary tale for those tempted to tread the same neoliberal path.

This sixth edition of Agribusiness Management provides students and managers with a fundamental understanding of the key concepts needed to successfully manage agribusinesses in a rapidly changing, high-tech, consumer-oriented, and uncertain world.

In the last two hundred years, the earth has increasingly become the private property of a few classes, races, transnational corporations, and nations.

This is a study of Northern Norway and Atlantic Canada, two regions experiencing a severe crisis due to overexploitation of fisheries resources.

This book is one of the first to supply the means for evaluating recreational resources in economic terms.

This book sketches out a framework for analyzing the economic efficiency of particular river basin programs.

That some cities are vibrant while others are in decline is starkly apparent.

This edited collection investigates the role of Italy in pursuing the EU five targets by 2020: R&D/innovation expenditures; the energetic measures for climate change; migration; the counter actions against poverty and social exclusion.

Economic growth and increasing population impose long-term risks to the environment and society.

This book reviews the state of agricultural climate change mitigation globally, with a focus on identifying the feasibility, opportunities and challenges for achieving mitigation among smallholder farmers.

Trends im Zusammenhang mit sozialer und ökologischer Nachhaltigkeit sind nicht nur in vielen Kommunikationsmedien präsent, sondern haben mittlerweile ihren festen Stellenplatz in zahlreichen Unternehmen und nicht zuletzt auch in den jeweiligen Marketingabteilungen.

How is the struggle against climate change financed?

Economic Theory for Environmentalists is a much-needed and heralded new book that examines the implications of neoclassical economic theory and how it relates to the environment and environmental activity.

A sweeping, policy-oriented account of the private and public management of the world's essential natural resource.

One of the German-speaking world's leading young sociologists lays out modern Germany's social and political crisis and its implications for the future of the European hegemon.

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

This book is about bounded rationality and public policy.

The increasing demand for rural land and its natural resources is creating competition and conflicts.

This book examines both the need for sustainable economics and the financial practices that will underpin it.

This book briefly reviews sociological, economic, and demographic literature pertaining to the relationship between income and fertility in developed and developing countries.

This book presents a critical analysis of the 'resource curse' doctrine and a review of the international evidence on oil and urban development to examine the role of oil on property development and rights in West Africa's new oil metropolis - Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana.

Microbehavioral Econometric Methods and Environmental Studies uses microeconometric methods to model the behavior of individuals, then demonstrates the modelling approaches in addressing policy needs.

The University of Cambridge has produced more Nobel Prize-winning economists than the whole of France.

Originally published in 1992, as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new series introduction and new preface, Forms of Dominance: On the Architecture and Urbanism of the Colonial Enterprise examines the complex experience of colonial domination, social reaction, and physical adaptation within the built environment of regions such as Morocco, Eastern Europe, India, Guatemala and East Africa, and provides a multi-disciplinary and cross-cultural perspective on the colonial experience.

This book is a compendium of case studies illustrating how economic tools and techniques can be used to address a wide range of problems in the management and conservation of marine and coastal ecosystems in a developing country context.

A glance at a list of America's fastest growing "e;"e;cities"e;"e; reveals quite a surprise: most are really overgrown suburbs.

The Libyan Oil Industry (1980) gives a narrative and analysis of the economic consequences of the discovery and production of oil in Libya, from the searches for oil by the major oil companies to the establishment of Libya as one of the main exporters in the world.

Gentrification Trends in the United States is the first book to quantify the changes that take place when a neighborhood's income level, educational attainment, or occupational makeup outpace the city as a whole - the much-debated yet poorly understood phenomenon of gentrification.

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.

Originally published in 1994, Urban Land and Property Markets in the United Kingdom, adopts a perspective that encompasses the distinctive nature of the legal framework, land law, property market and procedures of Scotland, England and Wales.

Do you really think you are getting a good deal when given that free mobile phone for switching service providers, if a multinational retailer undercuts its competitors or by the fact that food is relatively cheaper today in many countries than ever before?