Economics of specific sectors

This book observes that an in-depth study exclusively focusing on health service trade not only strengthens the overall services trade capacity of the South Asian region, but also promotes global as well as regional trade.

This book brings together new studies on regional disparities in the provision and maintenance of health in Asia.

This book is unique and original, constituting a pioneering study in the use of spatial economics and related analytical approaches to Brazil's Cerrado agricultural development and the formation of agro-industrial value chains.

The book discusses climate technology transfer under the UNFCCC framework, and China's relevant legislation and practices.

This cutting edge collection examines Japan's population issue, exploring how declining demographic trends are affecting Japan's social structure, specifically in the context of Greater Tokyo, life infrastructure, public finance and the economy.

The distinctive contribution of this book is the formulation of an integrated social, environmental, and economic framework for public policy.

This book provides a theoretical basis for understanding the phenomenon of renegotiations in Public Private Partnerships (PPPs).

Translating the realities of healthcare reform and healthcare costs into competitive hospital practice is the goal of this accessible, jargon-free guide.

This book presents a comprehensive and up-to-date treatise of a range of methodological and algorithmic issues.

Could democracy do better?

This book discusses the regulatory and trade challenges facing the global adoption of biotechnological products and offers strategies for overcoming these obstacles and moving towards greater global food security.

Much has been written about the economic causes of obesity, but this book offers a comprehensive and deep investigation of the causes and treatment of these issues in a single volume.

This book illustrates and discusses the main characteristics of port-city development dynamics with a focus on the fast-growing city-states of the Middle East, which are emerging as key players in logistics and the global supply chain.

This book shows the capabilities of Microsoft Excel in teaching health services management statistics effectively.

This volume critiques the current model of the creative economy, and considers alternative models that may point to greener, cleaner, more sustainable and socially just cultural and creative industries.

This book highlights current concepts of Social Urbanism, the contemporary set of multiple and interdisciplinary urban studies that have emerged mainly from the complex realities of Latin American cities.

This textbook contains a rigorous exposition of the mathematical foundations of two of the most important topics in politics and economics: voting and apportionment, at the level of upper undergraduate and beginning graduate students.

The author of Dark Age America shares a harrowing vision of the future and what you can do to take action and make change.

Environmental Economics: The Essentials offers a policy-oriented approach to the increasingly influential field of environmental economics that is based on a solid foundation of economic theory and empirical research.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.