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This book unravels the complex mechanisms involved in global real estate capital markets, enabling the reader to understand how they have grown and evolved, how they function, what determines market pricing, and how the public and private debt and equity markets are linked to each other.

Winner of the 2024 Silver Nautilus Book Award in the Rising To The Moment category.

This book includes insights on global warming and climate change, from a political, economic, scientific and engineering perspective.

This book demonstrates how the various legal efforts employed to eradicate global urban poverty also play a significant role in shaping it.

The concept of predistribution is increasingly setting the agenda in progressive politics.

This book provides a wider understanding of the geographies of the platform economy, focusing on the critical perspectives that have emerged on this new economic and digital context.

This edited volume portrays marketplaces from a mobility perspective as dynamic and open entities consisting of flows of people, goods and ideas.

A comprehensive guide to creating, implementing, and evaluating culturally competent HIV prevention programs.

China's Unfinished Economic Revolution offers a fundamentally different interpretation of China's economic reform.

To whom do the Earth's riches belongall of mankind, the nations in which those riches are found, or individuals?

Intangibles are harder to measure, harder to quantify, often more difficult to manage, evaluate, and account for than tangible assets.

During the past decade, dozens of large cities lost population as jobs and people kept moving to the suburbs.

Some of today's best urban leaders don't work for the governmentthey can be found in nonprofit organizations that serve the working class and poor populations.

Gated communities are a new "e;hot button"e; in many North American cities.

In July 1997, the promise of the !

For the past three decades, the federal government has targeted the poorest areas of American cities with a succession of antipoverty initiatives, yet these urban neighborhoods continue to decline.

Academics, community activists, and politicians have rediscovered regionalism, insisting that regions are critical functional units in a world-wide economy and, just as important, critical functional units in individual American lives.

The Kyoto Protocol represents nearly a decade of international effort to reduce carbon emissions.

A Brookings Institution Press and Chatham House publicationThe global climate change problem has finally entered the world's consciousness.

Large urban school systems have been the weakest link in American education, driving middle-class families into the suburbs while contributing mightily to the racial learning gap.

What do Brazil's top beauty brand, America's second-fastest-growing restaurant chain, and the world's third bestselling car have in common--besides achieving enormous success with revenue in the tens of billions?

Increasingly today, in every age group, consumers are committing to brands that show good citizenship--from fair employment practices, to social responsibility, to charitable giving.

The Supply Chain Operation Reference (SCOR) framework is a proven solution to the ever-present business struggle of strengthening and improving company-wide processes.

The COVID-19 crisis has proven that sustainability of an institution or organization requires a constant review of one's strategic positioning and the execution of pertinent plans in response to evolving externalities.

The UN's Net Zero goal is to limit the rise in mean global temperatures to 1.

"e;[A] superb collection of essays .

With a view toward the heritage of North American Industry, A Bibliographic Guide to North American Industry: History, Health, and Hazardous Waste provides recommended readings in historical and contemporary literature related to the origins of specific industries, the health and safety issues they face, and how they manage waste and prevent pollution.

A Stanford University Press classic.

Since the 1990s, the Middle East has experienced an upsurge of wildcat strikes, sit-ins, and workers' demonstrations.

Today, the Bay Area is home to the most successful knowledge economy in America, while Los Angeles has fallen progressively further behind its neighbor to the north and a number of other American metropolises.

Although organ transplants provide the best, and often the only, effective therapy for many otherwise fatal conditions, the great benefits of transplantation go largely unrealized because of failures in the organ acquisition process.

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A look at the American health care system through analysis of consumer and provider behavior.

Now that pornography is on the Internet, its political and social functions have changed.

As China, India, and other industrializing giants grow, they are confronted with an inconvenient truth: They cannot rely on the conventions of capitalism as we know them today.

An economist examines the decline of American cities and offers a strategy for their rejuvenation based on respect for property rights.

The environmental justice literature convincingly shows that poor people and minorities live in more polluted neighborhoods than do other groups.

This book integrates the fields of economics and law to empirically examine compliance with regulatory obligations under the Clean Water Act (CWA).

The rapid rise of China and India is reshaping our global economic and environmental systems-raising major issues of stability, governance, and sustainability.