Economics of specific sectors

Increasing urbanisation and industrial development are occurring at the expense of shrinking forest cover and agricultural land in South Asia.

This book introduces a groundbreaking approach to urban design, addressing site-specific challenges arising from the impacts of climate change.

With drastic action needing to be taken now, rather than over the 30 years to 2050, this book addresses the crucial question of how to get action from governments who will always put short-term considerations (e.

Upon competition of a ten year research project which analyzes the effect of air pollution and death rates in US cities, Lester B.

This book analyzes the determinants of happiness for both the rich and the poor in the developing regions of Asia, Latin America and Africa.

Recent rapid housing market expansion in China is presenting new challenges for policy makers, planners, business people, and citizens.

This book modifies the existing economic theory of health analysis by integrating the issues and principles of moral philosophy in an extended framework.

Written by economists and policy analysts at Resources for the Future, a Washington, DC, think tank with a tradition for independent, objective research, this collection of twenty-five 'memos to the President' offers constructive policy options for the elected administration on critical challenges related to energy, the environment, and natural resources.

Qiao demonstrates how an impersonal and unbounded market can operate without legal protection or enforcement of property and contract rights.

Blueprint 3 is the direct sequel to the ground-breaking Blueprint for a Green Economy.

Prefaced by Bjorn Stigson, President of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, this book is one of the few that treats this topic by putting representatives of industry at centre stage.

Only a few economists have vigorously dealt with mineral economics.

The role of advertising in everyday life and as a major employer in post-industrial economies is intimately bound up with processes of contemporary globalization.

The perception of Ethiopia projected in the media is often one of chronic poverty and hunger, but this bleak assessment does not accurately reflect most of the country today.

Presents the state-of-the-art of model-based integration of ecology and economics in the field of biodiversity conservation.

Epidemics know no borders and are often characterized by a high level of uncertainty, causing major challenges in risk governance.

In every area of life, traditional, centralized party politics has been failing and the seeds of a new form of political life are being sown.

Classic economic considerations applied to the crucial urban problems of poverty, racial segregation, urban renewal, transportation, and education.

In the today's global "e;commercial society"e; an inquiry into the economic role of government is gaining momentum.

This edited volume addresses the impacts of climate change on Pacific islands, and presents databases and indexes for assessing and adapting to island vulnerabilities.

We live in the 'urban century'.

Described here are the origin and general trends in the development of fishing from the earliest times up to the present in various parts of the world.

This volume, originally published in 1984, analyzes the impact of the 1973-74 oil price increases on the Appalachian coal industry in the USA, which would otherwise have suffered large output reductions as a result of sulfur emission restrictions.

This book reviews the development of physics-based modeling and sensor-based data fusion for optimizing medical decision making in connection with spatiotemporal cardiovascular disease processes.

This latest Fifth Assessment Report of the IPCC will again form the standard reference for all those concerned with climate change and its consequences.

This book providesa concise overview of facts and projections aboutclimate change in Cyprus and its region until the end of the 21st century.

The changes that Central European cities have undergone since 1989 deserve a complex, interdisciplinary analysis that offers deep insight into the specific nature of the transformation taking place in the region.

This is a collection of theoretical papers, including contributions by Partha Dasgupta and three Nobel prize-winning economists: Kenneth Arrow, Amartya Sen, and Joseph Stiglitz.

This book provides the definitive account of a decade-long transformation of energy policy in California with rippling consequences.

This book demonstrates that a holistic approach to the bioeconomy is essential if it is to achieve its full potential in driving economic growth while simultaneously providing ecological, social and technological benefits.

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to radical transformations in the organisationand delivery of health and care services across the world.

This edited collection explores the historical determinants of the rise of mass schooling and human capital accumulation based on a global, long-run perspective, focusing on a variety of countries in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa and the Americas.

The first authoritative study of Japan's environmental problems by the acclaimed environmental economist, placing environmental issues within a socioeconomic context.

Design Innovation for Health and Medicine offers an innovative approach for solving complex healthcare issues.

With the environment, climate change, and global warming taking center stage in the national debate, the issues seem insurmountable and certainly unsolvable at the local level.

The two distinct approaches to environmental policy include direct regulation-sometimes called 'command and control' policies-and regulation by economic, or market-based incentives.

The informal economy - broadly defined as economic activity that is not subject to government regulation or taxation - sustains a large part of the world's workforce.

A management agency --such as a publicly or privately owned electric utility -- must, if it is to be efficient in carrying out its day-to-day tasks, have a means of monitoring its performance to assess the efficiency of its operations and the effectiveness of its planning.

This monograph presents and analyzes the optimization, game-theoretic and simulation models of control mechanisms for ecological-economic systems.

This publication is concerned with two major current debates in public policy in all affluent societies.

Since the early 1990s, European welfare states have undergone substantial changes, in terms of objectives, areas of intervention, and instruments.

This volume of the International Symposia in Economic Theory and Econometrics explores the latest economic and financial developments in Asia.

This book investigates the new urban geographies of "e;smart"e; metropolitan regionalism across the Greater Seattle area and examines the relationship between smart growth planning strategies and spaces of work, home, and mobility.

This book presents a collection of proposed offshore and nearshore settlements in response to the emerging consequences of climate change.

Originally published in 1985, this volume examines the determinants of transport energy consumption and discusses policies which could modify rising transport energy consumption while still providing the transport services necessary for economic development.

Co-written by a pioneer of the sustainability movement, this groundbreaking volume offers a new way of thinking about the economics of sustainable energy, a goal that has eluded scientists and economists for decades.