When taxes are introduced on carbon and energy, and the revenue is used to reduce other taxes, will a positive effect be achieved both for the environment and for the economy?
Water scarcity due to climate change, population growth, and economic development is a critical issue in many semi-arid and arid regions around the world.
This handbook presents a must-read, comprehensive and state of the art overview of sustainable diets, an issue critical to the environment and the health and well-being of society.
In the past decade, urban regeneration policy makers and practitioners have faced a number of difficult challenges, such as sustainability, budgetary constraints, demands for community involvement and rapid urbanization in the Global South.
The future of China, India and Asia's other emerging economies and their ability to take a 'low-carbon' and 'climate-resilient' development path determine the future of global carbon emissions and climate change.
This timely study analyzes social, economic, political, provider, and patient factors shaping collective patient involvement in European health care from the postwar period to the present day.
This book demonstrates to the world by a series of replicable case studies, how the Indo-Pacific developmental initiatives of QUAD, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Canada, the European Union, Japan, Australia, and others can be implemented using the design of "e;Core Digital Economic Communities"e; within the 21 megacities that form Indo pacific megacity system and outside with independent country strategies to engage with these megacity systems where "e;Peripheral Digital Economic Communities"e; are located.
Das Buch stellt mit der Analyse geographischer Unterschiede bei der Behandlung ausgewählter Erkrankungen potenzielle Einspareffekte im Gesundheitswesen dar.
This work prepares current and future managers and consultants focused on health care delivery systems to improve the efficiency of processes that deliver care.
Originally published in 1987, this volume examines the ideals and realities of river use in 19th Century Britain and the failure of legal and technological remedies for river pollution.
Dieses Buch gibt Medical Advisors, medizinisch-wissenschaftlichen Fachreferenten und Medical-Marketing-Managern der Arzneimittelindustrie das erforderliche Know-how zur Realisierung des vollen medizinischen und wirtschaftlichen Potenzials eines Arzneimittels.
Dieses Buch beleuchtet die wichtige Rolle der naturbasierten Lösungen bei der Erreichung der weltweiten Energie-, Entwicklungs- und Klimaziele durch eine Transformation der Land- und Forstwirtschaft.
As China strives to significantly increase its economic output, the nation faces an acute deterioration of the physical resources from which this prodigious growth springs.
This book addresses topics and issues of high relevance to the widely shared desire to promote inclusive growth, sustainability, and innovation within a context of global governance.
Fortschritte in der Medizin, in der Genomforschung und in der Informationstechnik stellen den Datenschutz vor ein Dilemma: Forschung und die Anwendung neuer Methoden setzen häufig voraus, dass personenbezogene Daten in großem Umfang zentral verfügbar, verteilbar und verknüpfbar sind.
Die EG-Öko-Audit-Verordnung trägt auf europäischer Ebene der Forderung nach mehr Verantwortungsbewußtsein der Unternehmen im Bereich des Umweltschutzes Rechnung.
It is now widely accepted that the world is likely to face a major water crisis unless the present management practices are improved very significantly.
One of the most important and complex problems facing both developing and industrialized nations is how to sustain economic growth without harming the environment.
This study, first published in 1979, continues by examining the question of whether a competitive economy can efficiently allocate a stock of non-renewable natural resources through time.
