Economics of specific sectors

This book contains a collection of studies on the interactions between businesses in Africa and Global Value Chains (GVCs) in terms of social, environmental and economic sustainability.

Much has been written about the economic causes of obesity, but this book offers a comprehensive and deep investigation of the causes and treatment of these issues in a single volume.

This book is the first attempt to highlight the Great Divergence between Europe and China from the perspective of environmental change.

This is the first book that employs economics to develop and apply an analytical framework for assessing progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

This book describes the alarming condition of agriculture in the Anthropocene, when the ethical conception of agriculture as a service of common utility for both society and environment has progressively been marginalized.

This Edited Collection provides a rigorous and rich overview of current bargaining research in economics and related disciplines, as well as a discussion of future directions.

Manufacturing of products in urban production sites is connected to unique potentials, yet also to specific challenges.

This book fills a major gap in research into smoking and tobacco control in China.

This book addresses the challenges that healthcare organizations experience when attempting to manage the emergence of troublesome events or crises.

In the fast-changing policy arena of a country as diverse as India, gauging regional implications of policy shifts is critical but challenging.

This book examines economic policies utilized within Southeast Europe in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This book presents an in-depth study to show that a sustainable future urban life is possible.

This book evaluates the institutional environments of China and the United States, and the West more broadly, and how they affect their trading relationship, with specific emphasis on intellectual property theft and other allegations of unfair competition.

Language policies are increasingly acknowledged as being a necessary component of many decisions taken in the areas of the labor market, education, minority languages, mobility, and social inclusion of migrants.

This book presents simulation as an essential, powerful tool to develop the best possible healthcare system for patients.

Common wealth dividends are universal cash payments funded by fees on the private use of common resources like land, minerals, and the atmosphere as a carbon sink.

This book discusses dental healthcare professionals in the European Union and EU policy output and activities in the context of Europeanization and its impact on oral health care.

This book provides a critical perspective on several interconnected themes that relate to the implementation of both domestic and international environmental standards.

This book presents research related to energy and environmental technologies in the context of market liberalization and global warming.

This book provides a novel and holistic perspective on the deployment of prepaid electricity meter technology among energy impoverished (vulnerable) households based in developing or under-developed communities of Sub-Saharan Africa.

The book shows readers exactly how to use Lean tools to design healthcare work that is smooth, efficient, error free and focused on patients and patient outcomes.

Written by 43 authors from Africa, Europe and Latin America, this book presents 19 topics addressing poverty in the context of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), leadership in implementing SDGs, and SDGs in service delivery and local government.

This book provides an interdisciplinary lens for exploring, assessing, and coming to new understandings of smart cities and regions, focusing on the six dimensions of sensing, awareness, learning, openness, innovation, and disruption.

This book analyses the factors that influence the development and implementation of Health Technology Assessment (HTA) from multiple perspectives.

This book analyses the effectiveness of policies adopted in cluster promotion, using complexity thinking and evolutionary economic geography approaches.

This book provides the first comparative assessment of the energy-efficiency retrofit programs in the social housing sector of Canadian cities, focusing on program efficiency and effectiveness.

This handbook shares profound insights into the main principles and concepts of integrated care.

This book presents a systemic perspective on the broadly perceived problem of social care, meant in terms of a network engaging balanced resources and actors to assure the functionality, in an integrative approach.

This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the most important water-related issues that centre on Italy, analysed from several disciplinary perspectives - such as hydrology, economics, law, sociology, environmental sciences and policy studies - in order to promote full understanding of the challenges the country is facing and the ways it could best tackle them.

The purpose of this volume, bringing together key actors of the well-being community, including scholars and policy-makers, is to advance the understanding and undertaking of the well-being transition away from growth and toward resilience and sustainability, at a time when this progress has become a vital necessity.

The book reflects on how intelligent urban regeneration can be an extraordinary driver of sustainable social and economic progress.

This book applies an economic and environmental perspective to the history of landscape and the rural economy, highlighting their inter-connections through specific case studies.

This book presents scheduling with a medium- and short-term focus, which makes it possible to capitalize on fleeting market opportunities while simultaneously working to reconcile economic and environmental priorities.

This edited volume explores the nature, scope, and consequences of the marketisation of higher education.

This book approaches economic problems from a systems thinking and feedback perspective.

This professional guidebook highlights brand development and management for cities, regions, countries, and destinations.

This book offers new perspectives on the economic development of the Middle East and North Africa region.

This book examines the evolution of basic income policy and research in advanced economies and is divided into two parts.

This textbook provides a broad introduction to the relationship between climate change, economics, and climate policy for young readers and future generations.

This book addresses the need for a better understanding of the design, implementation and improvement of process management.

This book explores the undeveloped potential of video-ethnography to study the material, embodied and sensory dimensions of workplace practices.

This book is about three key dimensions in economics globalization, migration and the welfare state that are of enduring interest.

This book presents the first single comprehensive analysis of the scope of geographical realities and relevance in health care work.

Once called the "e;dismal science,"e; economics now offers prescriptions for improving people's happiness.

This book's main message is to advocate for a collaborative, affective, visualised and future-oriented research agenda.

This book examines the Ecological Footprint and biocapacity accounting within an applied development content  for Costa Rica.

This book explores the present conflictual relationship between the economy, the environment, and society.

This book provides a theoretical basis for understanding the phenomenon of renegotiations in Public Private Partnerships (PPPs).

In recent years, improving efficiency in healthcare facilities in general, and in hospitals specifically, has become increasingly important.

In this book, the authors, as policy analysts, examine the overall context and dynamics of modern medicine, focusing on the changing conditions of medical practice through the lens of corporatization of medicine, physician unionization, physician strikes, and current health policy directions.