Economics of specific sectors

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.

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 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.

This monograph provides a concise point of research topics and reference for modeling correlated response data with time-dependent covariates, and longitudinal data for the analysis of population-averaged models, highlighting methods by a variety of pioneering scholars.

There are two ways people coordinate their actions: through cooperation, exercised by economic power, and through control, exercised by political power.

This book includes up-to-date contributions in the broadly defined area of probabilistic analysis of voting rules and decision mechanisms.

This book explains how water, electricity/power, roads and other infrastructure services are linked together within the general basket of development and how to obtain the optimum use of resources.

This book is a philosophical critique of the economics of climate change from both an ethical and philosophy of economics perspective.

This book illustrates an alternative approach to 'state of sustainability' reporting by presenting cross-sectoral and multi-disciplinary discussions on sustainability issues in the context of a developing country, Botswana.

Water pollution control has been a top environmental policy priority of the world's most developed countries for decades, and the focus of significant regulation and public and private spending.

The book provides a holistic and practical approach to lean management throughout the business value chain.

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

Economic archaeology and ancient economic history have boomed the past decades.

This edited volume is focused on Hilferding's major work, Finance Capital.

This book addresses the socioeconomic effects of immigration to Sweden.

Sustainable innovation (SI) is considered to be a key driver of societal progress in an era of enormous economic, environmental and societal challenges, and the uncertainties and future consequences that come with them.

This book explores the ongoing transition of China's economy by examining how its healthcare industry is growing and changing.

This book describes a broad view of sustainability as a crucial factor for the success of its implementation.

This book presents work on healthcare management and engineering using optimization and simulation methods and techniques.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of performing return-on-investment (ROI) analyses for healthcare quality improvement (QI).

The Super Bowl is the most watched sporting event in the United States.

This edited collection explores the historical determinants of the rise of mass schooling and human capital accumulation based on a global, long-run perspective, focusing on a variety of countries in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa and the Americas.

This book provides an analysis of the role of fog computing, cloud computing, and Internet of Things in providing uninterrupted context-aware services as they relate to Healthcare 4.

This volume gathers a selection of research contributions on Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA), including theoretical and methodological studies and real-world case studies.

Sustainable and Environmentally Friendly Dairy Farms presents an innovative environmental proposal.

This book presents recent work on healthcare management and engineering using artificial intelligence and data mining techniques.

This book presents a technical approach to promoting the development of disaster and climate change risk financing and transfer strategies, and discusses several practical issues, chiefly focusing on Latin America and the Caribbean.

This book explores the impacts of transnational education (TNE) from the perspectives of institutions and countries that primarily act as hosts.

This book answers the question of how to design a sharing system that can promote sustained, meaningful, and socially constructive sharing practices in today's cities.

This book examines the implications of The General Theory of Second Best for analyzing the economic efficiency of non-government conduct or government policies in an economically efficient way.