Economics of specific sectors

This book offers a vision of the future of electricity supply systems and CIGRE's views on the know-how that will be needed to manage the transition toward them.

This book examines macroeconomic theory from an analytical framework provided by theories of complex systems, in contrast to conventional theories founded on aggregation.

This book explores in depth the phenomenon of user innovation in healthcare.

Fostering inclusive green growth in Africa means addressing existing and emerging development challenges, while efficiently managing Africa's natural capital and building resilience to environmental, social and economic risks.

This book explores the foundations and potential of a theory of need-based distributive justice, supported by experimental evidence.

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

This in-depth book addresses a key void in the literature surrounding the Internet of Things (IoT) and health.

This book explores the major differences between the kinds of risk encountered in different sectors of industry - production (including agriculture) and services - and identifies the main features of accidents within different industries.

This book investigates why and how cycle and walking paths can help to promote the regeneration of marginalized areas facing depopulation and economic decline.

This book provides an insight on the importance that Internet of Things (IoT) and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) solutions can have in taking care of people's health.

The recent rise of "e;Medicare for All"e; in American political discourse was many years in the making.

This book explores how geopolitical tensions have shaped the Antarctic Treaty System (ATS) and offers insights into managing future challenges.

There is a lot written on climate change from various points of view, but this is the first work that demonstrates the connection between the hunger of the poor, the deprivation of safe and healthy food on the part of those who can afford it in the wealthy countries, but still face starvation in the sense of lack of nourishment, and climate change itself.

This book is an economic analysis of plagiarism in music, focusing on social efficiency and questions of inequity in the revenue of authors/artists.

This Palgrave Pivot offers a history of and proof against claims of "e;buying power"e; and the impact this myth has had on understanding media, race, class and economics in the United States.

What is the significance of entrepreneurship in an economy?

This book gathers extended versions of the best papers presented at the Global Joint Conference on Industrial Engineering and Its Application Areas (GJCIE), held on September 2-3, 2019, in Gazimagusa, North Cyprus, Turkey.

Networks have become a prominent template for public service governance.

This book examines the often tough questions raised by infectious diseases through essays that explore a host of legal and ethical issues.

This book operationalizes the idea of political representation, which is fundamental to modern democracies.

This book offers the first systematic analysis of economic thought concerning war.

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

This book adopts a long-term perspective to consider political self-determination, peacekeeping and the creation of political meaning.

This edited volume addresses a critical aspect of development in Africa: the intersection between education and governance.

This book is the fourth in the series on leadership, interprofessional education and practice, following on from Leadership Development for Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice (2014), Leadership and Collaboration: Further Developments for IPE and Collaborative Practice (2015) and Leading Research and Evaluation in Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice (2016).

Space is a crucial variable in any economic activity.

Space is a crucial variable in any economic activity.

This book, the first of two volumes, highlights the concept of financial inclusion from the Islamic perspective.

This book examines the major economic challenges associated with the sustainability of public pensions, specifically demographic change, labor-market relations, and risk sharing.

Classical liberalism has wrongly been regarded as an ideology that rejects the welfare state.

This book explores the incentives and effects of modern welfare policy, contrasted with outcomes of global basic income pilots in the past seventy years.

Building on co-author Sharon Williams' previous title Improving Healthcare Operations, this book examines the role of co-design and coproduction in health and social care.

This book provides a thorough discussion about fundamental questions regarding urban theories and modeling.

This volume analyzes the global challenges of food security, land use changes, and climate change impacts on food production in order to recommend sustainable development policies, anticipate future food services and demands, and identify the economic benefits and trade-offs of meeting food security demands and achieving climate change mitigation objectives.

This book offers significant managerial and economic knowledge on hospitals, and will serve as a valuable tool for explaining complicated managerial and economical problems, and for facilitating decision-making processes.

This book highlights various challenges and opportunities for water management and cooperation in South Asia.

This book is an interdisciplinary examination of China's new urban development model and the challenges Chinese cities face in the 21st century.

Walking the Highwire tells the story of the Eurozone Crisis from the perspective of the former Vice-President of the European Commission who was responsible for Economic and Monetary Affairs in 2010-2014.

This book addresses major issues facing postal and delivery services throughout the world.

This edited volume focuses on the historical role of the OECD (The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) in shaping global education policy.

The book critically reflects on some of the most important novelties and experimentations in the context of the European Union's renewed urban and regional policy in the last programming period, 2014-2020.

This book highlights the social, economic and environmental importance of the mutual relations between industries in the same and in different regions and nations, and demonstrates how to model these relations using regional, interregional and international input-output (IO) models.

Global developments in basic income have reinvigorated political debates on the necessity of progressing to universal basic income implementation.

This edited volume addresses the impacts of climate change on Pacific islands, and presents databases and indexes for assessing and adapting to island vulnerabilities.

This book asks the question, how would economics look today and into the future if one started with a blank sheet of paper?

This book discusses urban planning and regional development practices in the twentieth century, and ways in which they are currently being transformed.

This book explores the insights that can be gained by looking at the criminal justice system from an economic point of view.

This book includes state-of-the-art discussions on various issues and aspects of the implementation, testing, validation, and application of big data in the context of healthcare.

Industry 4.

The unconditional basic income (UBI) has attracted renewed attention in academia, as well as in public discussions in recent years, and much has been written on the possible consequences of a UBI.