Economics of specific sectors

This book is devoted to strengthening the theoretical and methodological basis, systematization of international experience, and scientific elaboration of prospects for developing a climate-smart economy and business as a vector of the sustainable development of Industry 4.

This book, comprised of entirely original research, collects data on the socioeconomic situation of China's 56 ethnic groups.

This book seeks to enrich the growing literature on mine legacies by examining a case study of a small abandoned mine in Latin America.

The second edition of Dessler and Parson's acclaimed book provides an integrated treatment of the science, technology, economics, policy, and politics of climate change.

This book brings together research and theory about integrated care ecosystems with modern Socio-Technical Systems Design.

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.

Many of the frontiers of environmental economics research are at the interface of large-scale and long-term environmental change with national and global economic systems.

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 contains a set of papers which explore the subject matter of human and planetary health at various anglesThe year 2015 was a special year in the field of human and planetary health.

This book, based on extensive international collaborative research, highlights the state-of-the-art design of "e;smart living"e; for metropolises, megacities, and metacities, as well as at the community and neighbourhood level.

The living standards and scale of development around the world are vastly unequal.

"e;Dowding and Taylor offer student and scholar alike a clear and compelling perspective on the foundations of political economy.

This book takes an interdisciplinary, institutional, and historically informed approach to the economics of transport, providing a more nuanced and complete understanding of human transport choices, individually and collectively, and the related choice of location, including the formation of cities.

Enterprises in rural regions must now act in a globalized world and face global challenges, such as climate change, resource scarcities and social inequalities or the sustainability preferences of consumers.

The book examines the intersection of politics, economic development, and environmental sustainability of the coffee industry in Costa Rica.

This book maps the interactions between informal workers and the law within the urban and spatial environment.

This book explains the theoretical and empirical foundations for constructing a measure of a country's Green GDP and how this measure relates to the conventional GDP.

This collection of speeches delivered by Michael Debabrata Patra, Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), captures the dilemmas and trepidations of conducting monetary policy in India.

This book presents current theories of European integration, such as federalism, neo-functionalism and liberal intergovernmentalism with their strengths and weaknesses.

Building the City elaborates new critical insights into the everyday lives of migrant workers in cities around the world.