Economics of specific sectors

World population and the number of city dwellers are steadily growing.

Temperatism is more than a bleeding heart version of the capitalist ideal.

When a country emerges from violent conflict, the management of the environment and natural resources has important implications for short-term peacebuilding and long-term stability, particularly if natural resources were a factor in the conflict, play a major role in the national economy, or broadly support livelihoods.

Measuring Human Capital addresses a country's most important resource: its own people.

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.

Fundamental change is taking place in the provision of welfare services in Britain.

This book follows the citizenship-based approach and interrogates the policies on urban village redevelopment from a perspective of social exclusion and inclusion.

The first edition of Public Policies for Environmental Protection contributed significantly to the incorporation of economic analysis in the study of environmental policy.

Could Australia become a full-employment, renewable-energy superpower?

This timely volume presents an in-depth tour of population health monitoring-what it is, what it does, and why it has become increasingly important to health information systems across Europe.

This volume explores 25 case studies of fiscal measures that have been adopted successfully by governments in North America and Europe to reduce environmental degradation.

This book introduces three innovative concepts and associated financial instruments with the potential to revolutionise real estate finance.

Patient safety and quality improvement in health care remain a global priority.

Energy from wave and tidal power is a key component of current policies for renewable sources of energy.

Applying a rational choice perspective, this book presents a dynamic theory of the evolution of totalitarian regimes and terrorism.

This book concludes a trilogy that began with Intelligent Cities: Innovation, Knowledge Systems and digital spaces (Routledge 2002) and Intelligent Cities and Globalisation of Innovation Networks (Routledge 2008).

This is the second in a pair of economic texts commissioned by the OECD in the field of environmental economics; The Pearce Report: Blueprint for a Green Economy puts the role which monetary evaluation of environmental costs and benefits can play firmly into the public eye.

The world is losing species and biodiversity at an unprecedented rate.

This book examines the relationship between race, religion, and economics within the black church.

The United States has one of the most unique budgeting processes of any modern government.

Never before has the quest to balance the needs of people, the environment, and the economy been so important.

Encountering Povertychallenges mainstream frameworks of global poverty by going beyond the claims that poverty is a problem that can be solved through economic resources or technological interventions.

Because the number of options is often limited, small island states tend to find it uncommonly difficult to strike a balance between population, envi- ronment, and development.

Studies of African economic development frequently focus on the daunting challenges the continent faces.

This book explores the conquest, predation and management of human bodies and emotions by the growing capitalist digital community.

This book analyses the links between climate change adaptation, resilience and the impacts of hazards.

This book develops the Sustainable Governance Approach and the principles of Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM).

Farmers' cooperatives are very prevalent in the European Union, where they account for approximately half of agricultural trade and thus are key to articulating rural realities and in shaping the sustainability credentials of European food and farming.

In an age of pandemics the relationship between the health of the city and good sanitation has never been more important.

This volume is concerned with labor market developments in China from a comparative perspective on selected East and South Asian countries.

This volume explores why Americans are among the least likely in the world to speak another language and how this U.

This volume is the record of a conference held in March 1989 that centered on a departure from the basic U.

'Boserup's contribution to our thinking on women's role in development cannot be underestimated.

What drives support for or opposition to redistributive taxation and spending?

Discover farming techniques that will decrease soil erosion and costs!

Over the last three decades the world economy has grown strongly on the back of 'globalization' supported by the policies of free-trade, open markets and privatisation.

Over the past decade, cities have come into closer contact and conflict with new technologies.

This volume brings together a number of prominent economic studies all of which deal with key water quality issues.

Groundwater is becoming increasingly scarce while the demand for water continues to grow at a global scale.

A collection of essays by Nobel laureate Robert W.

International environmental agreements provide a basis for countries to address ecological problems on a global scale.

What does it mean to live a good life in a time when the planet is overheating, the human population continues to steadily reach new peaks, oceans are turning more acidic, and fertile soils the world over are eroding at unprecedented rates?

With substantial risks arising from resource constraints on global growth, serious questions are being posed about how a scarcity of finite resources may impact global social and political fragility.

Power to the People examines the varied but interconnected relationships between energy consumption and economic development in Europe over the last five centuries.