Economics of specific sectors

This book is the first of its kind to tackle in detail the nutritional requirements of the industrialized, so-called developed world.

This book presents the latest in decision-making tools, techniques, and solutions for policy makers to utilize in overcoming the challenges faced by healthcare systems.

This book develops and applies an integrated socio-economic assessment of multi-use offshore platforms in European marine locations.

The book provides a description of the process of health economic evaluation and modelling for cost-effectiveness analysis, particularly from the perspective of a Bayesian statistical approach.

An authoritative and comprehensive volume of knowledge and green technologies wholly focused on the future of the bioeconomy.

This book provides an introduction to operational research methods and their application in the agrifood and environmental sectors.

The main objective of this work is to provide a book with high quality content that becomes a reference and support for graduate course (Mental Health, Public Health and Epidemiology) and for research in the domain of health economics applied to mental health.

This book explores the issue of consumer financial education, responding to increased interest in, and calls to improve peoples' financial literacy skills and abilities to understand and manage their money.

Why is trade in wholesale water so rare, when markets can actively trade bread, tractors, and electricity?

This book draws upon the expertise of academic researchers, urban planners and architects to explore the challenge of building the sustainable cities of the future.

This book investigates the new urban geographies of "e;smart"e; metropolitan regionalism across the Greater Seattle area and examines the relationship between smart growth planning strategies and spaces of work, home, and mobility.

This title discusses the phenomenon of alcohol abuse as a behavioural disease and the associated costs.

This book discusses theoretical issues, standards, and professional considerations arising when legal and health practitioners undertake legal capacity assessments in the context of wills, enduring powers of attorney and advance health directives.

This Palgrave Pivot argues that basic income at a decent level is, in fact, affordable.

This book investigates the existing and possible links between the concept of a Carbon Club and the Paris Agreement.

This book explores the historical roots of rapid economic growth in South Asia, with reference to politics, markets, resources, and the world economy.

Presenting the latest research on the sustainable development of energy systems, this book provides a broad and holistic perspective on various aspects of renewable energy sources and grid integration.

This revised and expanded edition of Colin Price's seminal publication provides a richly comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of landscape economics, a subject which has until now been addressed only in limited aspects.

This book quantitatively analyses data to demonstrate India's recent progress in the education sector.

This book seeks to enrich the growing literature on mine legacies by examining a case study of a small abandoned mine in Latin America.

This book, a second edition, includes new data from the 2010 Census of India and NSS reports on consumer expenditure (2011-12), health and education (2014) to examine poverty in China and India, and how it connects with minorities.

This study investigates the complex link between natural disasters, individual behaviour - in the form of an individual's risk-taking propensity and level of trust - and the demand for microinsurance.

This book explores the transformation in the healthcare system in Turkey since 2003, which has been portrayed as a benchmark for building universal healthcare systems in emerging market economies.

This provocative appraisal unpacks commonly held beliefs about healthcare management and replaces them with practical strategies and realistic policy goals.

Translating the realities of healthcare reform and healthcare costs into competitive hospital practice is the goal of this accessible, jargon-free guide.

This book presents a comprehensive and up-to-date treatise of a range of methodological and algorithmic issues.

Could democracy do better?

This book examines how social cleavage lines shape issue voting and party competition.

This book discusses the regulatory and trade challenges facing the global adoption of biotechnological products and offers strategies for overcoming these obstacles and moving towards greater global food security.

This book discusses and explains the economics of each stage of the natural gas value chain, including the economic impact of restrictions, rules and decisions that are ostensibly technical in nature, as well as commercially relevant contractual stipulations.

This books focuses on co-design, and more specifically, on the various forms co-design might take to tackle the most pressing societal challenges, introducing public-interest services as the main application field.

This book is an analysis of energy and food subsidies in the MENA region between 2010 and 2014.

This collection gathers some of the greatest minds in economics to discuss their experiences of collaborative research and publication.

This book explores the parallels between the Renaissance during the 14th to 16th centuries and the upheavals in human and physical sciences in the 21st Century that herald an insurgent entrepreneurial renaissance.

This book challenges the idea that a sharp boundary should be drawn between the state and civil society.

This book discusses globalization and its impact on human health.

This book addresses the livelihood impacts of climate change, vulnerability and adaptation measures on the forest dependent communities of India.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of energy sectors in emerging African and Latin American nations, providing a one-stop source of information and analysis of energy sectors that differ radically from those of developed countries.

This is the first study to draw on international research carried out across four EU member states to add to the neglected area of the creative economy of peripheral regions.

This book identifies the main challenges to confronting global health (in)securities at three levels.

This book provides an overview of urban transformations taking place in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in the last three decades.

This book examines Warren, a suburb of Detroit, Michigan, as a shrinking city facing a crisis of economic downturn, automotive restructuring, high unemployment, and real estate foreclosures.

This book examines the water-related impacts of climate change in the UNESCO Intercontinental Biosphere Reserve of the Mediterranean (IBRM) straddling Spain and Morocco.

This book introduces the Eora, Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) and World Input-Output (WIOD) databases and provides detailed metadata on the data sources, database structures and construction techniques used to build each system.

This book explores statistical models in regional specialization, presenting a brand new measure.

This proceedings volume presents current research on transport sector development, with particular emphasis on sustainable transport development, innovation and transport enterprise growth and survival.

This book argues that economists need to reengage with societal issues, such as justice and fairness in distribution, that inevitably arise when discussing the basic economic problem of unlimited human wants and finite resources.

This book investigates the powerful role of online intermediaries, which connect companies with their end customers, to facilitate joint product innovation.

This book provides an evaluation of 18 voting procedures in terms of the most important monotonicity-related criteria in fixed and variable electorates.

This book provides a robust set of health economic principles and methods to inform societal decisions in relation to research, reimbursement and regulation (pricing and monitoring of performance in practice).