Economics of specific sectors

Sustainable development remains a significant issue in a globalized world requiring new economic standards and practices for the betterment of the environment as well as the world economy.

The Theory of the Leisure Class is one of the great works of economics as well as the first detailed critique of consumerism.

This cookbook features more than 90 delicious recipes and dozens of helpful tips to help combat migraine symptoms through diet and lifestyle.

This cookbook features more than 70 delicious recipes and dozens of helpful tips to help combat migraine symptoms by eating a Mediterranean-style diet.

A case study of the introduction of mass production of machinery into the grain and cattle economy of Argentina.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection.

The book describes the results of the AGaStor Project's social research carried out in northwestern Poland which recognizes the main social opportunities and barriers to the introduction of CCUS to society.

Too often, economics disassociates humans from nature, the economy from the biosphere that contains it, and sustainability from fairness.

By making available the almost unlimited energy stored in prehistoric plant matter, coal enabled the industrial age and it still does.

Parallax of Growth explores the ideas of economy and ecology and the factors that have put them on a collision course.

This book addresses the "e;urban"e; and "e;peri-urban"e; spaces in India within a single frame.

El libro, de un lado, realiza un gran esfuerzo de sistematizacin conceptual crtica, sobre las definiciones de fronteras, regin y las interacciones con el Estado-Nacin.

Lions are the stuff of legends.

Poverty as Subsistence explores the "e;propertizing"e; land reform policy that the World Bank advocated throughout the transitioning countries of Eurasia, expecting poverty reduction to result from distributing property titles over agricultural land to local (rural) populations.

"e;An interesting take on some factors that facilitate the development and bursting of bubbles in technology industries.

Sao Paulo, by far the most populated state in Brazil, has an economy to rival that of Colombia or Venezuela.

By turns alarming and encouragingManuel delineates with clarity [why] the US must attend closely toharmonious future relations with China and India (Kirkus Reviews) and why our obsession with China (as once with Japan) is shortsighted.

In the face of the relentless rise in health costs, many countries have had to set priorities so that maximum benefit can be made of unlimited funds.

This book is vital for health service managers and clinicians, in both purchaser and provider organizations, in community and hospital settings.

Recent changes to the health service including new structures and ways of working at both local and national levels are having major influences on the working lives of every health visitor and community nurse and on their professional opportunities.

This second edition reviews recent reforms and the likely impact of future developments in management and competition in the NHS.

The power of purchasers exposes the weaknesses of conventional thinking on the costs and benefits of priorities.

The quality of health care in the US depends on the patient's ability to pay and his or her insurance cover, at an annual cost of $3600 per head of population.

First Published in 2018.

First Published in 2018.

This book presents an introduction to modern public health seen from the perspective of practitioners of public health medicine.

Fifty years ago medicine was straightforward.

The power of purchasers exposes the weaknesses of conventional thinking on the costs and benefits of priorities.

The concepts and terminology of the new General Medical Services Contract can be confusing and daunting.

The roles of corporate and public stewards and the nature of their social contract with society have been changing over the past two centuries, and those changes have accelerated in recent decades.

Analyzing Form, Function, and Financing of the U.

In recent years, many pharmaceutical companies and clinical research organizations have been focusing on the development of traditional Chinese (herbal) medicines (TCMs) as alternatives to treating critical or life-threatening diseases and as pathways to personalized medicine.

Modern tools, such as GIS and remote sensing, are increasingly used in the monitoring of agricultural resources.

Cancer is a major healthcare burden across the world and impacts not only the people diagnosed with various cancers but also their families, carers, and healthcare systems.

There has been ever increasing interest in understanding the various aspects of available resources and production, in terms of need and supply, conservation and environmental impacts and so on.

As the most common health-care intervention, prescription drug use shares the most important characteristics of the health-care system in the United States.

Clinical Trial Optimization Using R explores a unified and broadly applicable framework for optimizing decision making and strategy selection in clinical development, through a series of examples and case studies.

Statistical Testing Strategies in the Health Sciences provides a compendium of statistical approaches for decision making, ranging from graphical methods and classical procedures through computationally intensive bootstrap strategies to advanced empirical likelihood techniques.

Improving the quality of healthcare, while increasing accessibility and lowering costs, is a complex dilemma facing rural communities around the world.

As healthcare moves from volume to value, payment models and delivery systems will need to change their focus from the individual patient to a population orientation.

In a global clinical development strategy, multiregional clinical trials (MRCTs) are vital in the development of innovative medicines.

Direct Pay: A Simpler Way to Practice Medicine examines the direct pay business model as a policy alternative and potential policy solution to the economic, technological, and sociocultural problems that have emerged for practicing physicians as a result of the Affordable Care Act.

Ce livre propose un schma pour le dveloppement de lespace Nekongo en RDC.

The vision in this book is to learn on ways of integrating Environment-Communities-Development.

Since their commercial introduction in 1996, genetically modified (GM) crops have been adopted by farmers around the world at impressive rates.

This book presents a new economic theory developed from physical and biological principles.

This book takes you on a unique journey through American history, taking time to consider the forces that shaped the development of various cities and regions, and arrives at an unexpected conclusion regarding sustainability.

In its second volume, this book aims to link the academic research with development in the real world and provide a historical and institutional background that can enrich more formal research.

This volume provides a theoretical framework for visionary leadership as well as specific management techniques to achieve success.