Economics of specific sectors

Across the US, cities and metropolitan areas are facing huge economic and competitive challenges that Washington won't, or can't, solve.

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

Urban and regional planners, elected officials, and other decisionmakers are increasingly focused on what makes places livable.

Museum planners Gail Lord and Ngaire Blankenberg demonstrate how museums and cities are using their soft power to address some of the most important issues of our time.

This book gets to the bottom of the twenty-first-century city, literally.

This book gets to the bottom of the twenty-first-century city, literally.

Fracking for gas trapped in shale could be a game changer in the quest to find alternatives to dirty fossil fuels, but it also has potential for harm.

Sunbelt cities like Atlanta, Charlotte, and Miami, with their international airports, have a transportation advantage that overwhelms global competition from other southern cities.

Transit services in the United States are in trouble.

Accessible to students and practitioners without an advanced degree in environmental economics, this essential reference work pinpoints the role of the economy in both creating and solving many of the world's most pressing environmental challenges.

Governance challenges and solutions for the provision of global public goods in such areas as the environment, food security, and development.

This book makes the case for the welfare state.

A David and Goliath story about Ireland's role as prime real estate for the world's largest tech multinationals, and the considerable impact it has had on us as individuals.

The New Localism provides a roadmap for change that starts in the communities where most people live and work.

The book examines the issues of sustainability in general.

The inherent dangers of war zones constrain even the most ardent researchers, with the consequence that little has been known for certain about the effects of war on stable environments.

Qualitative methods are increasingly used within health economics research, but there is almost no specific material to guide the use of these methods in this context; there is very little that links them to the specific questions that (health) economists ask or that provides guidance on analyzing from an 'economic' or 'resource-focused' perspective.

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

Qualitative methods are increasingly used within health economics research, but there is almost no specific material to guide the use of these methods in this context; there is very little that links them to the specific questions that (health) economists ask or that provides guidance on analyzing from an 'economic' or 'resource-focused' perspective.

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

This book extends the current international interest in the conceptualization of the marine sector to explore its importance of at different geographical scales: from the national, to regional and small area analysis within the context of base theory, New Economic Geography, agglomeration theory, industrial cluster policy and small area level analysis.

This book extends the current international interest in the conceptualization of the marine sector to explore its importance of at different geographical scales: from the national, to regional and small area analysis within the context of base theory, New Economic Geography, agglomeration theory, industrial cluster policy and small area level analysis.

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Die angespannte finanzielle Situation im Gesundheitswesen führt dazu, dass neben medizinischen auch immer mehr ökonomische Sachverhalte eine Rolle spielen.

This book consists of a collection of articles describing the emergingand integrated area of Energy,Natural Resourcesand EnvironmentalEconomics.

The volume places the migration-development-security nexus in the field of transnational studies.

Climate change is a matter of global concern and specific sectors of society such as universities need to engage and be active in the search for regional and local solutions for what is a global problem.

During the summers of recent years, Germany - and other countries in Europe - - perienced a considerable number of days, where limit values for ground level ozone set for the protection of human health were exceeded.

The labor of nature is paid, not because she does much, but because she does little.

Museum planners Gail Lord and Ngaire Blankenberg demonstrate how museums and cities are using their soft power to address some of the most important issues of our time.

This book makes the case for the welfare state.

Across the US, cities and metropolitan areas are facing huge economic and competitive challenges that Washington won't, or can't, solve.

This book enables readers to better understand, explain, and predict the future of the nation's overall economic health through its examination of the black working class-especially the experiences of black women and black working-class residents outside of urban areas.

Fracking for gas trapped in shale could be a game changer in the quest to find alternatives to dirty fossil fuels, but it also has potential for harm.

Accessible to students and practitioners without an advanced degree in environmental economics, this essential reference work pinpoints the role of the economy in both creating and solving many of the world's most pressing environmental challenges.

During the past two decades, most large American cities have lost population, yet some have continued to grow.

Transit services in the United States are in trouble.

*A Radio 4 Book of the Week*'Captivating, mind-boggling and deeply disturbing' - Maureen Freely'Humane, thoughtful and urgent - this book will make you think, make you laugh, make you cry, but also make you burn with rage' - Dr Mary WellesleyA thought-provoking deep dive into the global fertility industry and the commodification of the maternal body__________Should surrogacy be a paid service, an altruistic act - or even legal at all?

The book examines the issues of sustainability in general.

Given the underlying topography, the scenery over most of Britain has been created largely by human activities.

The inherent dangers of war zones constrain even the most ardent researchers, with the consequence that little has been known for certain about the effects of war on stable environments.

American cities are shifting collections of individual neghborhoods.

The first book to tell the inside story of the battle for control over the future of music and how technology is ripping up the traditional rules of business.

This latest volume in the New Naturalist series provides a comprehensive study of wildlife conservation in Britain, concentrating on events in the last 30 years.

Shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction 2011.

On the way to a show in Skipton, in North Yorkshire, I noticed a road sign to a town called Keighley.

'Bad Science' hilariously exposed the tricks that quacks and journalists use to distort science, becoming a 400,000 copy bestseller.