Economics of specific sectors

China has been subject to floods, droughts and heat waves for millennia; these hazards are not new.

Carbon markets are developing and expanding around the world, but how and to what extent is their design shaped by learning and interaction between them?

A comprehensive overview of the Green perspective on a range of global politics topics, including concrete strategies for achieving change.

This book explores the foundations and potential of a theory of need-based distributive justice, supported by experimental evidence.

The shortcomings of traditional regional policies led to a major policy.

Lively and accessible account of the relationship between man and nature in Graeco-Roman antiquity.

Medical technology broadly defined to include all aspects of the process of treating disease (e.

Das vorliegende Buch zeigt gesundheitsbetriebliche Marketingansätze auf, weist auf den Marketingprozess mit der Marktanalyse der Gesundheitsmärkte, sowie dem Entwickeln von Marketingzielen und –strategien für den Gesundheitsbetrieb hin und stellt Einsatzmöglichkeiten der Marketinginstrumente dar.

The green economy is widely seen as a potential solution to current global economic and environmental crises, and a potential mechanism by which sustainable development might be achieved in practice.

In this significantly revised second edition of Bronwyn Hayward's acclaimed book Children Citizenship and Environment, she examines how students, with teachers, parents, and other activists, can learn to take effective action to confront the complex drivers of the current climate crisis including: economic and social injustice, colonialism and racism.

The purpose of this collection is to provide the student with an introduction to the way in which the discipline of economics tackles the problems posed in affluent societies by their various ‘waste’ products.

Although the title of this volume and its major focus will be on one major aspect of global sustainability - climate change - this volume continues with the overall framing of the series: global sustainability is a multi-faceted, global, multi-generational, economic, social, environmental, and cultural phenomenon and challenge to our species.

What new theories, evidence, and policies have shaped health economics in the 21st century?

Das Buch dokumentiert den Ladenburger Diskurs "Umweltstaat", einem von der Gottlieb Daimler- und Karl Benz-Stiftung veranstalteten wissenschaftlichen Gespräch aus dem Themenbereich "Wechselbeziehungen zwischen Mensch, Umwelt und Technik".

Designed Technologies for Healthy Aging identifies and presents a variety of contemporary technologies to support older adults' abilities to perform everyday activities.

Handbook of Industrial Organization, Volume Four highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters written by an international board of expert authors.

Gentrification Trends in the United States is the first book to quantify the changes that take place when a neighborhood's income level, educational attainment, or occupational makeup outpace the city as a whole - the much-debated yet poorly understood phenomenon of gentrification.

This ambitious volume sets out to understand how every company impacts public health and introduces a robust model, rooted in organizational and scientific knowledge, for companies committed to making positive contributions to health and wellness.

This book provides several up-to-date empirical policy-oriented studies on assessing the impacts of climate change on various economic sectors and the role of renewable energy resources in mitigating pollution and climate change.

This edited volume focuses on the historical role of the OECD (The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) in shaping global education policy.

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

This book builds on the insights of Gunther Bachmann, former Secretary General for the German Sustainability Council, who spent almost 20 years advising the German government on sustainability policy.

This book addresses the puzzle of why the World Bank was unable to effect sweeping neoliberal health reforms in Latin America from the 1980s onward.

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.

This book provides an original contribution to contemporary research surrounding the environmental, humanitarian and socio-political crises associated with contemporary capitalism.

Economics of Aquaculture presents basic economic theory in a concise and logical format which is easily adaptable to practical application.

Rebuilding Afghanistan in Times of Crisis provides academics and researchers interested in planning, urbanism and conflict studies with a multidisciplinary, international assessment of the reconstruction and foreign aid efforts in Afghanistan.

This book critically examines how the narrative of global economic competition was used to rationalize college preparatory curriculum for all high school students and promote charter schools in Detroit.

Immigration policy is one of the most contentious public policy issues in the United States today.

Numbers dominate global politics and, as a result, our everyday lives.

Originally published in 1985.

Offering new research on strategic factors in the development of the nineteenth century American economy-labor, capital, and political structure-the contributors to this volume employ a methodology innovated by Robert W.

This book traces the foundations for sustainable entrepreneurship, beginning with sustainability, ecopreneurship, and social entrepreneurship.

Post-World War II Oregon was a place of optimism and growth, a spectacular natural region from ocean to high desert that seemingly provided opportunity in abundance.

This EU-funded project examines the dynamics of conflict, collaboration and competition in relation to access to oil, gas and minerals.

This book analyses 'zero-waste' (ZW) as an emerging waste management strategy for the future, which considers waste prevention through innovative design and sustainable consumption practices.

Seit ihrer Einführung im Jahre 1999 wird die ökologische Steuerreform in Deutschland kontrovers diskutiert.

Nowhere is the injustice of the global distribution of income and wealth more palpable than in health.

Originally published in 1979, this book discusses the model developed to deal with air pollution from coal fired power plants, but it broadly also illustrates how available scientific information can be organized to improve our understanding of pollution control.

This book explores the place of poor people within a rich variety of value chains, focusing upon lagging, rural regions in Africa and Asia, and how they can 'upgrade' within such chains.

The recent rise to prominence of renewable energy and energy efficiency has been driven by their potential to lower the environmental impacts of energy use.

This book looks at agriculture and the environment, placed within the dynamic context of post-communist societal change and entry into the European Union (EU).

Does a connection exist between environmental degradation, resource scarcity and violent conflicts?

Hundreds of millions of people still suffer from chronic hunger and food insecurity despite sufficient levels of global food production.