Economics of specific sectors

Engagement with and between a plurality of progressive, non-neoclassical traditions is an important step in fostering a more capacious understanding of sustainability - both as a concept and as a political objective.

This book covers the complexity of diabetes and related complications and presents the socio-economic burden of the disease, taking into account the rising prevalence reaching pandemic proportions and the associated costs.

In the past decade there has been a worldwide evolution in evidence-based medicine that focuses on real-world Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) to compare the effects of one medical treatment versus another in real world settings.

Net zero emissions is only the beginning.

Now in its third edition, Hendrik Van den Berg's International Economics: A Heterodox Approach covers all of the standard topics taught in undergraduate international economics courses.

Explores what went wrong with global carbon markets and what this means for future climate change policy and capitalism.

This book explores the organizational and operational activities of real Positron Emission Tomography (PET) radiopharmaceutical manufacturing.

Originally published in 1984.

This book operationalizes the idea of political representation, which is fundamental to modern democracies.

Examines how interactions between ecology and psychoanalysis shifted the focus of the American wilderness narrative from environment to identity.

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.

This book investigates the powerful role of online intermediaries, which connect companies with their end customers, to facilitate joint product innovation.

Countries around the world are spending up to $500 billion per year on subsidising fossil fuel consumption.

How immigrants and their descendants fare in the host society and in particular in the labor market is a very important question.

This compendium includes a wide range of topics, from energy science and technology, development and utilization of resources to sustainable ecological development.

This book investigates positive energy buildings (PEBs).

ISC 2022 is dedicated to the Niti Aayog policies to promote sustainability through exchange of ideas emerging out of the academia.

This book addresses the case for a Sustainable Energy Trade Agreement (SETA) and the move from fossil fuels to renewable energy.

Maja Tintor veranschaulicht in ihrer Studie, dass die Unterstützung der Gesundheit besonders während einer betrieblichen Restrukturierung notwendig ist, damit verbleibende Mitarbeiter gesund bleiben und das Unternehmen erfolgreich aus der Krise gelangt.

Housing finance structures and Institutional and regulatory/fiscal aspects in housing have changed significantly in recent years.

Natural capital accounting provides techniques to value natural resources and the ecosystem services they deliver.

This book discusses climate change from an academic point of view centered on and from Latin America.

As the world reels from the credit crunch and fall into recession of late 2008, the search is on for a better way to do business.

This Element examines the modern city as a propertied space, defining real estate as a technology possession.

The fisheries sector is in crisis.

The Uses of Social Investment provides the first study of the welfare state, under the new post-crisis austerity context and associated crisis management politics, to take stock of the limits and potential of social investment.

A variety of perspectives from leading economists provides fresh insight into how Arab countries may best exploit their oil revenues.

Using Scanner Data for Food Policy Research is a practitioners' guide to using and interpreting scanner data obtained from stores and households in policy research.

Twenty years after the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, "e;The Earth Summit"e;, the Rio+20 conference in 2012 brought life back to sustainable development by putting it at the centre of a new global development partnership, one in which sustainable development is the basis for eradicating poverty, upholding human development and transforming economies.

The indexes used by local, national, and international governments to monitor progress toward sustainability do not adequately align with their ethical priorities and have a limited ability to monitor and promote sustainability.

THE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER*A Financial Times Most Anticipated Book of 2024* Can a graphic novel save the planet?

This book explores the role of cities and the urban-rural linkages in spurring innovation embedded in spatial planning, strategic and economic planning, and decision support systems.

This report presents policy reform options to support Lithuania in meeting its climate neutrality target.

Im August 2015 begann in Frankreich ein neues energiepolitisches Kapitel: Nach jahrelangen Verhandlungen trat die transition énergétique in Kraft.

Environmental Justice: Key Issues is the first textbook to offer a comprehensive and accessible overview of environmental justice, one of the most dynamic fields in environmental politics scholarship.

This book examines the power relations that emerge from the convergence of the universe in which the sporting spectacle is produced and the universe in which a city is produced.

Con la periodicidad anual que corresponde, el Grupo de Investigación del Departamento de Derecho del Medio Ambiente presenta el tomo III de la Colección Derecho de Tierras, el cual es resultado de la convocatoria que se hace periódicamente a los investigadores, a los profesores de la especialización en Derecho de tierras, y a la comunidad académica en general, para que estudien y presenten los aspectos centrales de esta rama del ordenamiento jurídico.

The main objective of translational health science is to concentrate on discovering healthcare products for all people where care gaps exist.

The book reflects on how intelligent urban regeneration can be an extraordinary driver of sustainable social and economic progress.

This book addresses the complexity of urbanization, impacts of climate change and climate change adaptation for the metropolitan region of Santiago de Chile, with a special focus on the most pressing issues of natural hazards, water and energy supply.

The must-read summary of Daniel Esty and Andrew Winston's book: "e;Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage"e;.

'Ground-breaking and ambitious' - Nick Srnicek, author of Platform CapitalismWhoever controls the platforms, controls the future.

Can affordable housing make the American Dream an American reality?

By turns alarming and encouragingManuel delineates with clarity [why] the US must attend closely toharmonious future relations with China and India (Kirkus Reviews) and why our obsession with China (as once with Japan) is shortsighted.

The Sunday Times bestseller *Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize*A New Statesman and Spectator Book of the Year'This book calls for nothing less than a revolution in the future of food' Kate RaworthFrom the bestselling author of Feral, a breathtaking first glimpse of a new future for food and for humanityFarming is the world's greatest cause of environmental destruction - and the one we are least prepared to talk about.