Economics of specific sectors

Every decision about energy involves its price and cost.

Over the past decade, cities have come into closer contact and conflict with new technologies.

Sustainable Business: Key Issues is the first comprehensive introductory-level textbook to address the interface between environmental challenges and business solutions to provide an overview of the basic concepts of sustainability, sustainable business, and business ethics.

Today's internet service providers mediate communication, control data flow, and influence everyday online interactions.

This book investigates how the EU member states' domestic energy policies have transformed in the last two decades as a consequence of horizontal and vertical integration forces.

Advances in agriculture offer many countries the best and only chance of reducing poverty.

Systemic change is required to move to a circular economy (CE) model which can meet the demands of a growing population in a manner that is decoupled from resource use and waste generation.

Systemic change is required to move to a circular economy (CE) model which can meet the demands of a growing population in a manner that is decoupled from resource use and waste generation.

Energy is a key resource for transformational development globally.

Principles of Sequence Stratigraphy, Second Edition presents principles to practical workflow that guide applications in a consistent manner that is independent of model, geological setting and the types and resolution of the data available.

A team of world-leading policy experts and clinicians analyse the changing role of the hospital across Europe.

The Routledge Handbook of Latin America and the Environment provides an in-depth and accessible analysis and theorization of environmental issues in the region.

This book addresses sustainability thinking and the bigger picture, by taking into consideration how and from where contemporary schools of thought emerged approximately a quarter-century ago.

Contemporary Chinese rural life is placed in sharp theoretical and practical focus in this book.

This book investigates how extractive capitalism has developed over the past three decades, what dynamics of resistance have been deployed to combat it, and whether extractivism can ever be transformed into being a part of a progressive development path.

This book illustrates two approaches for firms to shape successful circular strategies, namely, the Circular Economy and Circular Districts.

This monograph presents potential remedies for some of the current environmental issues in developed countries in a theoretical or empirical manner with the interdisciplinary approaches of economics, statistics, and engineering.

Routledge Handbook on Labour in Construction and Human Settlements presents a detailed and comprehensive examination of the relationship between labour and the built environment, and synergises these critical focus areas in innovative ways.

The book explores approaches, methods and best practices related to health promotion in urban areas.

This textbook explains the main economic mechanisms behind energy markets and assesses how governments can implement policies to improve these markets' performance.

How you can solve the climate, energy and air pollution crises, without relying on ''miracle technologies''.

Die moderne Ökonomie befindet sich in einem tiefgreifenden Wandel.

Das Buch unterstützt bei der Anwendung der Verfahren für die Planungspraxis zur stätischen (urbanen) Verkehrssystemen und gibt Anleitung für die Interpretation der Ergebnisse.

Housing matters to people, be they owner, renter, housing provider, homeless individual, housing professional, or policymaker.

Why hope matters as a metric of economic and social well-beingIn a society marked by extreme inequality of income and opportunity, why should economists care about how people feel?

As the world has transformed, so have cities.

This upper level textbook provides a coherent introduction to the economic implications of individual and population ageing.

Policy insider''s compelling argument to reorganise our efforts in science, diplomacy, and economics to tackle climate change five times faster.

This book discusses theoretical issues, standards, and professional considerations arising when legal and health practitioners undertake legal capacity assessments in the context of wills, enduring powers of attorney and advance health directives.

This textbook explains the main economic mechanisms behind energy markets and assesses how governments can implement policies to improve these markets' performance.

This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the most important water-related issues that centre on Italy, analysed from several disciplinary perspectives - such as hydrology, economics, law, sociology, environmental sciences and policy studies - in order to promote full understanding of the challenges the country is facing and the ways it could best tackle them.

This book demonstrates the continuing relevance of Marx's critique of the capitalist system, in which value is simply equated with market price.

The first comprehensive treatment of data science as a new and powerful way to understand and manage human-environment interactions.

When most people think of policies designed to help the poor, welfare is the first program that comes to mind.

Until quite recently, the Japanese inspired a kind of puzzled awe.

Since the early 1990s, federal transportation laws have slowly started to level the playing field between highway and alternative transportation strategies, as well as between older and newer communities.

Advocates of growth management and smart growth often propose policies that raise housing prices, thereby making housing less affordable to many households trying to buy or rent homes.

The economic downturn that began in 2008, the most severe in decades, has hit older Americans hard.

Over the past twenty years, many low- and middle-income countries have experimented with health insurance options.

This book deals with human factors research directed towards realizing and assessing sustainability in the built environment.

Urban heritage, which is part of the conceptual expansion of cultural heritage, has become an extraordinarily complex notion.

Once called the "e;dismal science,"e; economics now offers prescriptions for improving people's happiness.

The New Localism provides a roadmap for change that starts in the communities where most people live and work.

This book is devoted to the systems rethinking of the role of the leading digital technologies and circular innovations to reduce the environmental footprint of the modern economy.

This book is devoted to the systems rethinking of the role of the leading digital technologies and circular innovations to reduce the environmental footprint of the modern economy.

This book takes as a starting point that welfare states in developed societies do not provide systems of social insurance against the risk of an early death.