Economics of specific sectors

The fall-out from the economic and financial crisis of 2008 had profound implications for countries across the world, leading different states to determine the best approach to mitigating its effects.

In the last two hundred years, the earth has increasingly become the private property of a few classes, races, transnational corporations, and nations.

While health system decentralization is often associated with federations, there has been limited study on the connection between federalism and the organization of publicly financed or mandated health services.

While health system decentralization is often associated with federations, there has been limited study on the connection between federalism and the organization of publicly financed or mandated health services.

Combating Poverty critically analyses the growing divergence between Quebec and other large Canadian provinces in terms of social and labour market policies and their outcomes over the past several decades.

Combating Poverty critically analyses the growing divergence between Quebec and other large Canadian provinces in terms of social and labour market policies and their outcomes over the past several decades.

Climate change skeptics and business pundits alike are convinced that any public policy instruments used to curtail environmental degradation are antithetical to the interests of the corporate community.

Climate change skeptics and business pundits alike are convinced that any public policy instruments used to curtail environmental degradation are antithetical to the interests of the corporate community.

The impact of science and technology on culture raises a number of questions about the ways in which people relate to each other and to their environment.

The impact of science and technology on culture raises a number of questions about the ways in which people relate to each other and to their environment.

Suitable for courses addressing community economic development, non-profit organizations, co-operatives and the social economy more broadly, the second edition of Understanding the Social Economy expands on the authors' ground-breaking examination of organizations founded on a social mission - social enterprises, non-profits, co-operatives, credit unions, and community development organizations.

Suitable for courses addressing community economic development, non-profit organizations, co-operatives and the social economy more broadly, the second edition of Understanding the Social Economy expands on the authors' ground-breaking examination of organizations founded on a social mission - social enterprises, non-profits, co-operatives, credit unions, and community development organizations.

Oil fuels the global economy and remains a staple of our energy system.

Oil fuels the global economy and remains a staple of our energy system.

What does it mean to think of HIV/AIDS policy in a critical manner?

What does it mean to think of HIV/AIDS policy in a critical manner?

An eye-opening account of the failures of our financial system, the sources of its staying power, and the path to meaningful economic reform.

This book examines the relationship between neoliberalism and insecurity, beginning with the post World War II period and continuing up through the present.

The Second Edition of Economic Theory and the Cities has been revised and expanded with both the graduate student and the practicing professional in mind.

It is claimed in this book that expectations should not necessarily be treated as unobservable variables and that there is much to be learned from survey data.

Spatial decisions and processes are fundamental to the understanding of spatial structure.

The book deals with complexity, imprecision, human valuation, and uncertainty in spatial analysis and planning, providing a systematic exposure of a new philosophical and theoretical foundation for spatial analysis and planning under imprecision.

Fundamental Aspects of Pollution Control and Environmental Science, 3: Economic Approaches to Environmental Problems: Techniques and Results of Empirical Analysis focuses on the application of economic approaches in the management and control of environmental problems.

Science, Technology and Society: Needs, Challenges and Limitations focuses on the role of science and technology in promoting development as well as its limitation in shaping the society.

As part of the Environmental and Ecological Modeling Handbooks series, the Handbook of Ecosystem Theories and Management provides a comprehensive overview of ecosystem theory and the tools - ecological engineering, ecological modeling, ecotoxicology and ecological economics -to manage these systems.

Environmental professionals are often called upon to find solutions to environmental degradation problems or to lead the way in planning to prevent them.

Written in a way that facilitates understanding of complex concepts, laws, and policy, Production, Growth, and the Environment: An Economic Approach explores how economic growth usually makes people better off, but also asks at what environmental cost?

The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), a market mechanism under the Kyoto Protocol, has been successful in supporting mitigation actions through carbon inance.

Reporter Alexandra Wolfe's biting but admiring story of Silicon Valley, and the men and women whose hubris and ambition are changing the world.

This book critically explores how the water-energy-food nexus can be used as an organising framework to address environmental degradation and promote sustainable development.

This thought-provoking, accessible book critically examines the dominant food regime on its own terms, by seriously asking whether we can afford cheap food and by exploring what exactly cheap food affords us.

After all the research on agricultural risk to date, the treatment of risk in agricultural research is far from harmonious.

Do we need a new car or a new refrigerator every ten years?

It is not uncommon that a group of scientists from many different disciplines join a working group, discuss a topic of interest and edit a volume of articles related to this topic.

This volume is concerned with the role of science in fishery management.

Coordination of land use and transport is one of the most important issues in urban planning from the viewpoint of transport infrastructure supply and amenity in urban space.

Member states of the European Union often label themselves as the world's top Green Leaders.

This book examines how the on-paper hydropower boom impacts the safe and fair access to water and energy in emerging economies.

The book offers a concise yet comprehensive introduction to supply chain analytics covering management, modeling, and technology perspectives.

This book addresses the major policy, economic and financial issues encountered in global forest carbon.

Exploring the ways in which an integrated landscape vision can help deliver regional, national, and international agendas, this book investigates how a new idea of landscape can reimagine governance, policy, economics, culture, identity, health, transport, and development priorities by connecting in a more powerful and meaningful way with local aspirations and demands.

This book explores the practice of Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) in the cities of the Global South.

Countries with smaller governments grow faster.

This book showcases the discussion about megaprojects carried out at the MeRIT (Megaproject Research Interdisciplinary Team) workshop 2023: the crisis, discontinuity, rising prices, and supply chains disruption force radical reflection for those involved in megaprojects.

We can't stop shopping but we must stop shopping - the consumer dilemma that defines our lives and our future.

*Winner of the Enlightened Economist Prize 2019**Winner of Debut Writer of the Year at the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2020**Longlisted for the Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2019*'Extreme Economies is a revelation - and a must-read.

Where do you stand on the junior doctors' strike?

This volume contains a comprehensive guide to farm management, with a particular focus on the financial side of running a farm and including information on borrowing, hire purchase, and returns.

This book examines the inclusiveness of city planning and design to address gaps in policies, strategies and design guidelines for developing trans-generational urban communities in India.