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The international community has long grappled with the issue of safeguarding the environment and encouraging sustainable development, often with little result.

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.

Beer has been consumed across the globe for centuries and was the drink of choice in many ancient societies.

This edited volume looks at energy poverty, an issue whose pivotal role in the fight for human development is only now being recognised by policymakers.

Managing Resource Abundance and Wealth: The Norwegian Experience describes the sundry and significant challenges, both economic and political, facing petroleum-producing countries.

Managing Resource Abundance and Wealth: The Norwegian Experience describes the sundry and significant challenges, both economic and political, facing petroleum-producing countries.

Whites and Reds: A History of Wine in the Lands of Tsar and Commissar tells the story of Russia's encounter with viniculture and winemaking.

Whites and Reds: A History of Wine in the Lands of Tsar and Commissar tells the story of Russia's encounter with viniculture and winemaking.

Private pensions provision in the UK is in crisis, yet it is not the crisis often depicted in political and popular discourses.

Private pensions provision in the UK is in crisis, yet it is not the crisis often depicted in political and popular discourses.

While the first half of the 20th century was characterized by total war, the second half witnessed, at least in the Western world, a massive expansion of the modern welfare state.

While the first half of the 20th century was characterized by total war, the second half witnessed, at least in the Western world, a massive expansion of the modern welfare state.

The global response to HIV/AIDS has been a major aspect of global health and development policy over the last three decades.

While the implementation of evidence-based medicine guidelines is well studied, there has been little investigation into the extent to which a parallel evidence-based management movement has been influential within health care organizations.

Impact evaluations must be embedded in the ongoing process of policy and programme design in order to be effective in influencing country policy.

Consumer society in the United States and other countries is receding due to demographic ageing, rising income inequality, political paralysis, and resource scarcity.

Consumer society in the United States and other countries is receding due to demographic ageing, rising income inequality, political paralysis, and resource scarcity.

First discovered in 1976, and long regarded as an easily manageable virus affecting isolated rural communities, Ebola rocketed to world prominence in 2014 as a deadly epidemic swept through Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia in West Africa.

First discovered in 1976, and long regarded as an easily manageable virus affecting isolated rural communities, Ebola rocketed to world prominence in 2014 as a deadly epidemic swept through Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia in West Africa.

In recent years, debates on the economics of happiness have shown that, over the long-term, well-being is influenced more by social and personal relationships than by income.

Many developing countries are falling behind sustainable development goals: food and nutrition levels have deteriorated due to conflict, climate change, and the Covid pandemic, while global ambitions for achieving sustainable food security and adequate nutrition have increased.

Many developing countries are falling behind sustainable development goals: food and nutrition levels have deteriorated due to conflict, climate change, and the Covid pandemic, while global ambitions for achieving sustainable food security and adequate nutrition have increased.

The rapid increase in recent years in the number of children and adults accessing care for ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), raises a number of questions.

The rapid increase in recent years in the number of children and adults accessing care for ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), raises a number of questions.

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.

This brand new Dictionary of Agriculture and Land Management addresses the increasing overlap between agricultural sectors and the demands of the management of rural land and property.

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC 4.

Advances in science and policy during the past 50 years have prevented the predicted widespread food shortages as the world's population soared.

What is human happiness and how can we promote it?

What is human happiness and how can we promote it?

In today's world of scare resources, determining the optimal allocation of funds to preventive health care interventions (PHIs) is a challenge.

In today's world of scare resources, determining the optimal allocation of funds to preventive health care interventions (PHIs) is a challenge.

This book addresses the important issue of food prices across EU Member States.

This book, written by global experts, provides a comprehensive and topical analysis on the economics of chocolate.

This book, written by global experts, provides a comprehensive and topical analysis on the economics of chocolate.

This book explores the role of the welfare state in the overall wealth and wellbeing of nations and in particular looks at the American welfare state in comparison with other developed nations in Europe and elsewhere.

Increase in life expectancy is arguably the most remarkable by-product of modern economic growth.

Energy, and access to energy, are essential to human life, civilisation and development.

The Oxford Textbook of Global Public Health is the ultimate resource on the subject of public health and epidemiology.

China's rise as an economic powerhouse raises a number of questions that are the subject of lively debate.

China's rise as an economic powerhouse raises a number of questions that are the subject of lively debate.

This volume, arising from a PSE-CEPREMAP-DIMeco conference, includes contributions by the some of the best-known researchers in happiness economics and development economics, including Richard Easterlin, who gave his name to the 'Easterlin paradox' that GDP growth does not improve happiness over the long run.

The global response to HIV/AIDS has been a major aspect of global health and development policy over the last three decades.

Agricultural Enlightenment explores the modernization of the rural economy in Europe through the lens of the Enlightenment.

Funding infrastructure has always been a challenging issue in any country and at any time, yet the topic is still largely unexplored.

What are the impacts of population growth?

Human Development is widely recognised as the overriding goal of development, yet its realization is challenged by growing inequality, macro-economic fluctuations, and recurrent financial crises.

Health Promotion is a relatively new discipline and there is little in the way of practical help for students and practitioners in choosing and implementing appropriate evaluation methods.

Do we have the rights to optimism?

The majority of the poor and hungry people in the world live on small farms and struggle to subsist on too little land with low input - low yield technologies.