Economics of specific sectors

In this title, originally published in 1984, Wilman develops and describes a methodology for imputing a monetary value to the loss in beach recreational services that would result from a hypothetical oil spill in the Georges Bank area off Massachusetts.

Agricultural systems are no longer evaluated solely on the basis of the food they provide, but also on their capacity to limit impacts on the environment, such as soil conservation, water quality and biodiversity conservation, as well as their contribution to mitigating and adapting to climate change.

China is becoming a rising star in global economical and political affairs.

This book discusses one of the most noticeable and significant transformations in China over the past three decades is the rapid and massive urbanization of the country, which has brought shifts in political culture of Chinese urbanites.

This study develops a new indicator for national and global sustainability.

First published in 1992, this Routledge Revival sees the reissue of a truly original exploration of the nature of urbanization and capitalism.

This book explains how in moving towards Cleaner Production, the Lean Production Philosophy can be applied to reduce carbon emissions in prefabrication - one major source of the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions which contribute to global climate change.

This second edition is brought about by two factors.

Spatial Modeling of Environmental Pollution and Ecological Risk provides valuable information and insights for researchers, students and professionals in geography, hydrology, sedimentology, soil science, agriculture, engineering and GIS as they face increasingly complex challenges around development strategies for a sustainable society.

This book envisages a different form of our economies where care work and care-full relationships are central to social and cultural life.

This book discusses how Artificial Intelligence developments have revolutionized the area of medicine and how companies use them to develop applications.

Kneese examines issues surrounding benefits assessment, including such tools as bidding games, surveys, property value studies, wage differentials, risk reduction evaluation, and mortality and morbidity cost estimation.

Behandlungsfehler stellen für jedes Krankenhaus ein ernstzunehmendes Problem dar.

This book is particularly concerned with China's path to green development and how it can be understood, exploring questions such as how the goal of Chinese-led green development can be achieved.

Investigating Social Issues uses economic theory to analyse real events and problems and to evaluate different solutions.

This pioneering study on environmental case-law examines how courts engage with science and reviews legitimate styles of judicial reasoning.

Providing an in-depth case study on the emergence of social impact investing in the UK, this book develops a new perspective on financialization processes that highlights the roles of non-financial actors.

This book focuses on novel reduced cell and stack models for proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) and planar solid oxide fuel cells (P-SOFCs) that serve to reduce the computational cost by two orders of magnitude or more with desired numerical accuracy, while capturing both the average properties and the variability of the dependent variables in the 3D counterparts.

Our planet is a closed system with limited material resources, yet our current economic model is designed in a one-way direction from resource extraction to disposal, leading to resource depletion.

Housing, Homelessness, and Social Policy in the Urban North brings together leading scholars on northern urban housing across the Canadian North, Alaska, and Greenland.

This companion volume to Economic Instruments for Environmental Management presents essential information on the applications of economic valuation to environment and development.

This book investigates why and how cycle and walking paths can help to promote the regeneration of marginalized areas facing depopulation and economic decline.

This book helps readers understand how universities position themselves in the innovation landscape and the implications for national policies.

This title offers an in-depth analysis of the psychological causes and consequences of, and proposed interventions for over-eating.

Empirical in character, this book analyses the society-nature interaction of the Tsimane', a rural indigenous community in the Bolivian Amazon.

This book examines the Ecological Footprint and biocapacity accounting within an applied development content  for Costa Rica.

Genetically modified crops have become a key element of development strategies across the Global South, despite remaining deeply controversial.

This book presents the best, peer-reviewed contributions from the XII Congress of the Italian Society of Ergonomics and Human Factors (SIE), held in Lucca, Italy, on May 2-4, 2022.

This book examines the causes and consequences of suicide from the perspective of economics.

This book offers an up-to-date and comprehensive picture of the Vietnamese economy which is the fast-growing economy in Southeast Asia.

China's recent climate-energy policy, an outcome of contemporary challenges, has generated conflict of interest amongst major stakeholders.

This books brings readers a holistic understanding of blockchain adoption in healthcare by not only considering the technical fundamentals of use cases, but also the regulatory, informational and organizational challenges and solutions.

A comprehensive overview of the human rights to water and sanitation, exploring theoretical, conceptual, and practical aspects.

There isn't one conversation about animal ethics.

This book introduces the readers to the new concept of cognitive cities.

,This wonderful book demonstrates how rural livelihoods - as well as diets, health and ways of life - are enhanced by the so-called ,neglected and underutilized plant species, which, in the book,s Syrian case study, include such deliciously interesting things as capers, laurel, jujube and figs.

A topical and authoritative examination of the current crisis in the fishing industry, offering a political analysis of the reasons for the crisis and suggesting ways in which this might be overcome.

Since the early 1990s, governments and development agencies have become increasingly preoccupied with the pursuit of regional competitiveness.

This title discusses the phenomenon of smoking as a behavioural disease and the associated costs.

Scientific disciplines have their own view on catastrophes.

Dieses Arbeitsbuch ist die Fortsetzung von „Change Management in Gesundheitsunternehmen“, in dem nun der Schwerpunkt auf der Vermittlung von praxisnahen und anwendbaren Methoden im Gesundheitswesen liegt.

This book studies the pathways and policies of regional coordinated low carbon development from the perspective of regional spillover-feedback effects.