Economics of specific sectors

This book offers a practice-based approach to developing strategies for utilizing broadband telecommunications for rural economic development.

As health care concerns grow in the U.

This book explores the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and sustainability in healthcare, focusing on how AI technologies are transforming medical practices while promoting environmentally responsible operations.

This Green Book provides the design engineer with an understanding of the electrical parameters and methods required in designing compact AC and DC lines.

This book analyzes the informal practices of contemporary cities through a close dialogue between different research perspectives, with the shared goal of giving voice to informality and evaluating its benefits and potential in a multidimensional key of social factors.

Markets for Water: Potential and Performance dispels many of the myths surrounding water markets and gives readers a comprehensive picture of the way that markets have developed in different parts of the world.

Whether smashed on toast or hailed as a superfood, the avocado has taken the world by storm, but what are the environmental and social impacts of this trendy fruit?

Whether smashed on toast or hailed as a superfood, the avocado has taken the world by storm, but what are the environmental and social impacts of this trendy fruit?

This book analyzes the informal practices of contemporary cities through a close dialogue between different research perspectives, with the shared goal of giving voice to informality and evaluating its benefits and potential in a multidimensional key of social factors.

John Kenneth Galbraith has long been at the center of American economics, in key positions of responsibility during the New Deal, World War II, and since, guiding policy and debate.

The most comprehensive handbook ever published on water resource issues from a global perspective, for students, researchers and professionals.

Brings together a collection of papers from academia, government, and policy think tanks on US energy tax policy.

A fascinating account of the contribution that natural resource exploitation has made to economic development in world history.

The most comprehensive handbook ever published on water resource issues from a global perspective, for students, researchers and professionals.

Brings together a collection of papers from academia, government, and policy think tanks on US energy tax policy.

A fascinating account of the contribution that natural resource exploitation has made to economic development in world history.

A text for students with a background in calculus and intermediate microeconomics and a familiarity with the spreadsheet software Excel.

This book critically examines the interplay between digitalization and sustainability.

Tackles the key controversies surrounding the precautionary principle and develops a new framework for risk management.

Tackles the key controversies surrounding the precautionary principle and develops a new framework for risk management.

The book is a seminal contribution from a leading futurist who, over the past three decades, has explored each of the most disruptive forces shaping our world today, including emerging technologies, entrepreneurship, venture investments, and industrial manufacturing.

A text for students with a background in calculus and intermediate microeconomics and a familiarity with the spreadsheet software Excel.

Bjørn Lomborg challenges world-class economists to describe the costs and benefits of a range of policies to combat global warming.

Approaches climate change as an issue of human security and ethical obligation, arguing for a more equitable and sustainable future.

This book addresses corporate power, global inequality and sustainability in shaping health outcomes.

A geographer''s perspective on environmental politics for advanced students and researchers in geography, social and political science.

This book demonstrates that political exchange and coalition building have become the key ingredients for continental European pension reform.

Tackles the politically sensitive, complex issues of climate change, development and development cooperation, offering theoretical, political, and practical perspectives.

Presents a cutting edge overview of tackling and adapting to climate change, written by a lead member of the IPCC.

Condensed, accessible review of latest state-of-the-art assessments of IPCC, within context of sustainable development.

This book addresses corporate power, global inequality and sustainability in shaping health outcomes.

A geographer''s perspective on environmental politics for advanced students and researchers in geography, social and political science.

Bjørn Lomborg challenges world-class economists to describe the costs and benefits of a range of policies to combat global warming.

In response to the damage caused by a growth-led global economy, researchers across the world started investigating the association between environmental pollution and its possible determinants using different models and techniques.

Explores how we should react to the political dilemmas of adapting the global economy to confront climate change.

Approaches climate change as an issue of human security and ethical obligation, arguing for a more equitable and sustainable future.

This book re-examines early twentieth-century British welfare economics in the context of the emergence of the welfare state.

This book demonstrates that political exchange and coalition building have become the key ingredients for continental European pension reform.

A practical analysis of current sustainable development prospects using the innovative sustainomics framework.

An examination of patient classification systems in fifteen different countries throughout the world.

Tackles the politically sensitive, complex issues of climate change, development and development cooperation, offering theoretical, political, and practical perspectives.

Presents a strategic vision of the role that performance measurement can play in securing health system improvement.

Evaluates the opportunities and challenges of introducing hydrogen as an alternative fuel source from economic, technical and environmental perspectives.

Leading scholars from economics, management studies, and political science suggest effective environmental policies to mitigate human impact on the environment.

The most authoritative analysis of the full range of options open for a world climate agreement to succeed the Kyoto Protocol.

This book examines and evaluates two approaches to social justice, the capabilities approach and the primary goods approach.

Nobel Prize-winning scientist''s assessment of options for switching to sustainable energy provision to avert potentially disastrous consequences of climate change.

Presents a cutting edge overview of tackling and adapting to climate change, written by a lead member of the IPCC.

This book reviews the development of physics-based modeling and sensor-based data fusion for optimizing medical decision making in connection with spatiotemporal cardiovascular disease processes.

The book contains selected contributions from the 48th Annual Meeting of the EURO Working Group on Operational Research Applied to Health Services (ORAHS 2022) held in Bergamo, Italy, July 2022.