Economics of specific sectors

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.

This book provides a missing link between marginality, migration and education in Zimbabwe, focusing on the educational experiences of migrants' children in an effort to influence government policies concerning migrant parents and their left-behind children.

This book gathers together innovative research and practical findings relating to urban mobility transformation.

This book highlights the parallel transformations of the concepts of citizenship and the welfare state, and their dependence on the dominant political ideology, from the post-war period to the present.

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.

This book covers topics such as digitalization of production, operations, logistics and supply chains leading to new requirements for human capabilities and collaboration.

This textbook explains the main economic mechanisms behind energy markets and assesses how governments can implement policies to improve how these markets function.

This book presents an empirical investigation of the efforts that multinational pharmaceutical companies take in order to find a business model that allows for a profitable access to the Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP) markets.

This book helps readers understand the main issues, challenges, strategies, and solution methods in Aggregate Planning (AP), an important part of Supply Chain Management.

This timely volume explores the multiple domains where Behavior Analysts can provide meaningful assessment and interventions.

This book shows the capabilities of Microsoft Excel in teaching health services management statistics effectively.

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The emergence of sharing mobility is having a profound impact on urban landscapes.

This textbook provides an overview of economic perspectives on sustainability.

This volume represents the beginning of a 'cross pollination' of different social scientific disciplines, bridging the boundaries between national and disciplinary epistemic communities in the worlds of European welfare markets.

There is a lot of attention for happiness, but there is also a lot of confusion, about the concept and the nature of happiness.

The period of past four decades has been characterized as one of neo-liberalism, financialization, globalization, privatization and de-regulation.

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

This book demonstrates the continuing relevance of Marx's critique of the capitalist system, in which value is simply equated with market price.

This book explores three particular strategies in the extractives sector for creating shared wealth, increased labour opportunities and positive social, environmental and economic outcomes from corporate projects, namely: state wealth funds (SWF), local content policies (LCP) and corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices.

This volume is intended to serve as a review of the "e;next generation"e; of political economy scholars in what can be called the "e;Wagnerian"e; tradition, which traces its roots to Buchanan and De Viti De Marco in the 1930s, who argued that any decision that results from a political entity must be the product of individual decision makers operating within some framework of formal and informal rules.

In a series of conversational essays, this textbook discusses the manner in which economic thought addresses a broad array of everyday issues beyond classical textbook treatments.

This book argues that the theory of sustainable development lost some of its rigor because of two main reasons.

The book illustrates the use of spatial econometric models to analyze the economic resilience of regions to climate-related shocks.

This book presents a diverse set of decision-making methodologies to solve some of the most important decisions that most organizations face today.

Circular economy principles are driving to overcome the challenges of today's linear take-make-dispose production and consumption patterns through keeping the value of products, materials, and resources circulating in the economy as long as possible.

This book provides a comprehensive account of the electricity industry in China, the world's largest power producer and carbon emitter.

This heavily revised second edition defines the current state of the art for informatics education in medicine and healthcare.

Aiming at building efficient radiology operations, this book walks the reader through the entire radiology workflow, from the moment that the examination is requested to the reporting of findings.

Of all forms of alternative medicine, chiropractic is the one that is most generally accepted.

Beginning with the economic meltdown of 2007/8, this book shows that the predatory mortgage lending and overleveraging-which is to say, the overextension of credit-which precipitated The Great Recession was a response to a crisis of overproduction reflective of an unavoidable contradiction at the heart of competitive capitalism.

Today, cities are being intensively reshaped by unexpected dynamics.

This book illustrates and discusses the main characteristics of port-city development dynamics with a focus on the fast-growing city-states of the Middle East, which are emerging as key players in logistics and the global supply chain.

Sub-Saharan Africa faces many development challenges, such as its size and diversity, rapid urban population growth, history of colonial exploitation, fragile states and conflicts over land and natural resources.

This book presents an important discussion on the implementation of sustainable soil management in Africa from a range of governance perspectives.

Today, it has become strikingly obvious that companies no longer operate in an environment where only risk return and volatility describe the business environment.

This first book on Maritime Informatics describes the potential for Maritime Informatics to enhance the shipping industry.

This book covers the complexity of diabetes and related complications and presents the socio-economic burden of the disease, taking into account the rising prevalence reaching pandemic proportions and the associated costs.

Things will always go wrong in organisations.

There is no more fundamental substance to life on earth than water.

This book discusses sustainable housing issues in urban areas throughout the Global South, revealing their complexity in terms of urban dynamics, housing markets and human interactions with the environment.

This book, based on lectures on natural and environmental resource economics, offers a nontechnical exposition of the modern theory of sustainability in the presence of resource scarcity.

Is safe and sustainable water and sanitation for all an unaffordable pipedream?

This book qualitatively and quantitatively examines the relationships between the constructed environment, health and social vulnerability.

This book asks, how would a stable, prosperous economy of the future look if one started with a blank sheet of paper?

This fully updated edition of the China Ethnic Statistic Yearbook, comprised of entirely original research, presents data on the socioeconomic situation of China's 56 ethnic groups.

This volume critiques the current model of the creative economy, and considers alternative models that may point to greener, cleaner, more sustainable and socially just cultural and creative industries.