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Environmental challenges, and the potential solutions to address them, have a direct effect on living standards, the organization of economies, major infrastructures, and modes of urbanization.

It is becoming increasingly difficult to deny that human activity is a factor in global climate change.

The book explores the uneven spatial distribution of territory resources and its implication for the sustainable development of regions and cities.

The books provides a timely analysis in support of a paradigm shift in the field of wastewater management, from 'treatment for disposal' to 'treatment for reuse' by offering a variety of value propositions for water, nutrient and energy recovery which can support cost savings, cost recovery, and profits, in a sector that traditionally relies on public funding.

Accomplishing sustainability in the agribusiness sector is a significant, yet time-sensitive, challenge, especially when balanced with the need to grow sufficient quantity and quality of food to keep the growing global population healthy.

This book represents a powerful analysis of the challenges of metropolitan governance in all its messiness and complexity.

This title was first published in 2001.

This book presents the core elements that underwrite agroecology.

The increasing resistance of bacteria to antibiotics, and pests to pesticides, threatens to undo some of the most remarkable advances made in public health and agriculture during the past century.

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.

'Degrowth', a type of 'postgrowth', is becoming a strong political, practical and cultural movement for downscaling and transforming societies beyond capitalist growth and non-capitalist productivism to achieve global sustainability and satisfy everyone's basic needs.

Originally published in 1990, Agricultural Protectionism in the Industrialized World takes a detailed look into the domestic and international agricultural policies of the United States, Europe, Canada, Japan, Australia and New Zealand.

This proceedings volume aims to provide new research methods, theories and applications from various areas of applied economic research.

Economic development and the environment are presumed to be in conflict, but the latter part of the twentieth century experienced a series of economic changes that increasingly questioned this view.

Environmental Economics: The Essentials offers a policy-oriented approach to the increasingly influential field of environmental economics that is based on a solid foundation of economic theory and empirical research.

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), launched by China in 2013, carries and projects powerful regional dimensions and transformations, with short- and long-term global, national and local consequences.

This book develops a detailed, disaggregated theoretical and empirical framework that explains variations in mass killing by authoritarian regimes globally, with a specific focus on Pakistan, Indonesia, and Malaysia.

Fachliche Expertise, klinische Kompetenz und Outcome-Orientierung sind die Zielvorgaben an die Expert_innen der Gesundheitsberufe, um eine qualitativ hohe Gesundheitsversorgung im interdisziplinären Team sicher zu stellen.

Finance is a critical issue for municipal governments around the world, and a major constraint on the delivery of pro-poor services at the local level.

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

Originally published in 1990, this study tracks the issues, progress and problems in environmental issues in the United States from the 1980's.

Local Food Systems and Community Economic Development provides scholarly and practical knowledge on a range of issues often associated with local food system development.

The anthropological demography of health, as a field of interdisciplinary population research, has grown from the 1990s, extending to a remarkable range of key human and policy issues, including: genetic disorders; nutrition; mental health; infant, child, and maternal morbidity; malaria; HIV/AIDS; disability and chronic diseases; new reproductive technologies; and population ageing.

The trade aspects of risk and the risk aspects of trade deserve more systematic and genuine interdisciplinary attention if we are to really understand the global, international and supranational dimensions of risk regulation.

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This book embraces South Africa and its place in the Global South, providing a succinct theoretical and empirical analysis and discussion of urban issues in the country.

Sir John Houghton''s definitive, full-colour guide to climate change is fully up-to-date with the latest IPCC findings.

This edited collection is a novel book with contributions from eleven expert researchers on the history of tourism in Europe.

A presentation of the challenges of European rural landscape management, exploring alternatives that incorporate place-based approaches.

This study, originally published in 1972, examines the connections between human society and the rest of the universe that are attributable to economic activity.

Examining the interplay between the oil economy and identity politics using the Kurdistan Region of Iraq as a case study, this book tells the untold story of how extractivism in the Kurdish autonomous region is interwoven in a mosaic of territorial disputes, simmering ethnic tensions, dynastic rule, party allegiances, crony patronage, and divergent visions about nature.

The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) strives for the sustainable and equitable utilization of genetic resources, with the ultimate goal of conserving biodiversity.

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

This book will change the way Americans think about their cities.

This book provides theoretical and empirical perspectives on the urban impact of mega-events globally.

This book provides a fresh perspective on the state of global climate governance, offering innovative suggestions for improving its effectiveness and legitimacy.

An authoritative overview of the requirements and costs of monitoring, reporting and verifying emissions from industry to regional and national levels.

Rules in the Making represents an attempt to revolutionize ways of thinking about regulatory decision-making.

Ecohydrology of Kerala: River Catchments and Coastal Backwaters presents 20 years of research to provide suggestions for sustainable management solutions for issues surrounding the urbanization of the rivers of Kerala.

This comprehensive medical textbook is a compendium of the latest information on healthcare quality.

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Focusing on cultural values and norms as they are translated into politics and policy outcomes, this book presents a unique contribution in combining research from varied disciplines and from both the developed and developing world.

This book examines the drivers of inbound medical tourism in Germany.

Das bankaufsichtsrechtliche Regelwerk Basel III (umgesetzt durch CRD IV und CRR) bringt neue, deutlich strengere internationale Eigenkapital- und Liquiditätsregeln für Kreditinstitute.

Revealed Biodiversity: An Economic History of the Human Impact aims to show that for several centuries environmental conditions have been substantially the product of economic fluctuations.