Economics of specific sectors

As "e;business as usual"e; has become the mantra of today's world, it's unlikely to see a decrease in hazardous waste generated from greater economic growth.

The world is at a critical juncture where our industrial and economic principles have to be reshaped.

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

This collection breaks new ground by investigating applications of degrowth in a range of geographic, practical and theoretical contexts along the food chain.

Contested Waste' examines socio-environmental conflicts involving waste pickers in the Global South, uncovering the systemic injustices that underpin contemporary waste policies.

The appearance of this Second Edition has been encouraged by the favorable reception of the first.

The efficient use of natural resources is key to a sustainable economy, and yet the complexities of the physical aspects of resource efficiency are poorly understood.

The National Dialogue on Water in Thailand was initiated in 2021 under the regional initiative with the Ministry of Environment of the Republic of Korea (MoE), the Asia Water Council (AWC) and the OECD.

The current evolution of the European economy suggests that in the near future, research in agri-food economy and agri-food production, and agricultural production systems and structures must be redesigned, adapted and developed to respond to the lack of sustainability of agri-food production systems and the current global food crisis.

South Africa's transition to a greener economy features prominently in the long-term development vision of the country, and is an integral part of the country's national climate change response strategy.

This book explores our ethical responsibilities regarding health in general and disabilities in particular.

This book traces the economic and biological pattern of forest development from initial settlement and harvest activity at the natural forest frontier to modern industrial forest plantations.

Describes the physics of the coastal ocean, for advanced students, researchers, urban planners, and environmental engineers.

This book provides an overview of climate change in India using river basin data and analytical and econometric methods.

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.

Revised and fully updated, this textbook provides a detailed yet accessible introduction to the key aspects of ecosystem services.

In this classic study, the authors assess the importance of technological change and resource substitution in support of their conclusion that resource scarcity did not increase in the Unites States during the period 1870 to 1957.

How to survive and thrive in the post-industrial ageIn response to the coming impact of peak oil, John Michael Greer helps us envision the transition from an industrial society to a sustainable ecotechnic world-not returning to the past, but creating a society that supports relatively advanced technology on a sustainable resource base.

The connection between economic growth and the quality of the environment is a popular subject.

This edited volume takes a comprehensive look at solid waste management across jurisdictions in Canada, including provinces, territories, municipalities, and Indigenous communities.

Urban sanitation and solid waste sectors are under significant pressure in East Africa due to the lack of competent institutional capacity and the growth of the region's urban population.

Economic growth and increasing population impose long-term risks to the environment and society.

Bringing together renewable energy and energy security, this book covers both the politics and political economy of renewables and energy security and analyzes renewable technologies in diverse and highly topical countries: Japan, China and Northern Europe.

This book contains a collection of papers on economic incentives and environmental policies which result from the authors' joint research work in the program `Environment, Science and Society', conducted under the auspices of the European Science Foundation, with whose cooperation the book has been published.

This book reflects current developments in the economics of agrobiodiversity and focuses its attention on the role agrobiodiversity can have for economic development.

It is often assumed that deindustrialization is a bad thing, confined to the Global North, and caused by cheap imports from the Global South.

This book provides an entry into the subjects of disparity and deprivation, by attending to issues that have a bearing on certain salient  philosophical and conceptual aspects of these subjects.

The way we plan and build cities in Australia needs to change.

Fluid inclusions are samples of paleo-fluids entrapped in minerals and can provide indispensable information about the compositions of the fluids, and the temperature and pressure conditions of the host mineral formation.

This volume analyzes the global challenges of food security, land use changes, and climate change impacts on food production in order to recommend sustainable development policies, anticipate future food services and demands, and identify the economic benefits and trade-offs of meeting food security demands and achieving climate change mitigation objectives.

Cities are experiencing unprecedented times.

Examining the interplay between the oil economy and identity politics using the Kurdistan Region of Iraq as a case study, this book tells the untold story of how extractivism in the Kurdish autonomous region is interwoven in a mosaic of territorial disputes, simmering ethnic tensions, dynastic rule, party allegiances, crony patronage, and divergent visions about nature.

This book focuses on market law and policy in sub-Saharan Africa, showing how markets can be harnessed by poorer and developing economies to help make the markets work for them: to help them integrate into the world economy and provide a better standard of living for their people while preserving their values of inclusive development.

This second volume of proceedings of the International Conference on Regional Science, Energy and Environment (Louvain, May 1975) contains papers related to general and partial equilibrium models of regional and urban development, in which natural and human resources playa dominant role.

The concept of creative industries has developed considerable academic and policy momentum in the 21st century.

Solar power has come of age.

Urban land is a precious resource and originally published in 1961, Transportation and Urban Land aims to create an approach to analysing and projecting its uses with a particular focus on the household sector.

For decades, governments have tried to foster industrial competitiveness and economic growth.