Economics of specific sectors

Die machthungrigen Lebensmittelkonzerne setzen alles aufs Spiel.

Ivanko and Kivirist - innkeepers, authors, and wearers of many other hats - truly walk the green talk, detailing the nitty-gritty of running a green business.

Microfinance institutions (MFIs) provide a public good; if MFIs create and deepen markets where none existed before, there may be a case for public support.

2020 introduced a global pandemic that led to global economic, social, and regional lockdowns affecting public life in ways never been imagined before.

First systematic study of global cities as lawmakers in the world of transnational climate change governance.

Originally published in 1986.

A collection of comparative case studies analysing the history, politics and performance of private health insurance globally and its implications for universal health coverage.

These investigations identify and clarify some basic assumptions and methodological principles involved in ecological explanations of plant associations.

Originally published in 1980.

Sustainability at Work is a compelling guide for anyone who seeks both a successful career and a career that makes a positive difference in society.

Member states of the European Union often label themselves as the world's top Green Leaders.

The policy of the United States and, by extension, that of many oil importing countries, toward OPEC countries is in large part a function of an estimate of the factors that condition oil decisions in exporting countries.

This book presents a new perspective on the link between economic growth and environmental change.

This title was first published in 2002.

A user's guide to economic, political, social and cultural collapse.

This book examines the recent controversy between international trade and environmental policies.

The prevalence of natural disasters in recent years has highlighted the importance of preparing adequately for disasters and dealing efficiently with their consequences.

Economics is a science that can contribute substantial powerful and fresh insights!

Urban Africa is undergoing a transformation unlike anywhere else in the world, as unprecedented numbers of people migrate to rapidly expanding cities.

Despite their obvious importance, the ethical implications of climate change are often neglected in economic evaluations of mitigation and adaptation policies.

While more than 2,700 emergency removals of hazardous materials have taken place under Superfund, implementing the long-term cleanup program has been the object of considerable controversy.

Reducing your carbon emissions in an economic down-turn can be challenging, but saving the planet doesn't have to cost you more.

This book addresses the transdisciplinary subject of urban green space governance in Chinese cities through political sciences, organization theory, sociology, and new institutional economics lenses, with urban planning and ecology perspectives as research foundation and the science of climate change on health and wellbeing research background.

This book summarizes the research findings in regarding a region as a rational and abstract concept and explores the principles of regional science.

This volume examines how far agribusiness corporations are responding to the opportunities and pressures resulting from emerging environmental awareness.

As governments increasingly legalize and expand the availability of casinos, hoping to offset the impacts of manufacturing decline through the advancement of gambling commerce, this book examines what casinos do-and do not do-for host communities in terms of economic growth.

It is zero hour for a new US water policy!

Social Policy has been a key dimension of dynamic economic growth in East Asia's 'little tigers' and is also a prominent strand of their responses to the financial crisis of the late 1990s.

This book has two heroes - the surgeon and the robot.

This compilation of key materials in international environmental law takes account of the most significant developments in the field that have occurred during the past decade, including in the areas of climate change, chemicals and pesticides, biosafety, and nuclear safety, as well as good governance, compliance and liability.

Nils Petter Gleditsch International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) & Department of Sociology and Political Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trond- heim This book could hardly have happened but for the end of the Cold War.

Through its exploration of the spatial dimension of risk, this book offers a brand new approach to theorizing risk, and significant improvements in how to manage, tolerate and take risks.

This textbook explains the main economic mechanisms behind energy markets and assesses how governments can implement policies to improve how these markets function.

Funded by the tobacco and fossil fuel industries, the Mises- and Hayek-inspired 'free' market has adopted 'The Slogan of Liberty' - but should their faith-based assertions be accorded the same epistemological status as a science?

This book provides a comprehensive account of the electricity industry in China, the world's largest power producer and carbon emitter.

This book is inspired by the term "e;digiwine,"e; a neologism referring to the production and/or marketing of wine through the use of new technologies and robotics such as vineyard information systems, sensor units, weather stations, drones, robotic harvesters, social media videos, digital labels, and wine apps.

Oil fuels the global economy and remains a staple of our energy system.

This book explores the ways in which AgeTech can contribute to healthy cognitive aging and support the independence of people with dementia.

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

In 2008, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Centers (UPMC) hoisted its logo atop the U.

This book explores how political, social, economic and institutional factors in eight emerging economies have combined to generate diverse outcomes in their move towards universal health care.

This volume gathers distinguished researchers on travel behavior from a variety of disciplines, to offer state-of-the-art research and analysis encompassing environmental, traffic and transport psychology; transport planning and engineering; transport geography; transport economics; consumer services research; environmental sociology and well-being research.

This book takes an interdisciplinary, institutional, and historically informed approach to the economics of transport, providing a more nuanced and complete understanding of human transport choices, individually and collectively, and the related choice of location, including the formation of cities.