Economics of specific sectors

This book addresses the disparities that arise when measuring and modeling societal behavior and progress across the social sciences.

Chitin is the second most abundant natural polymer in the world after cellulose, mainly derived from the food waste of shrimp and crabs.

This book highlights the parallel transformations of the concepts of citizenship and the welfare state, and their dependence on the dominant political ideology, from the post-war period to the present.

Macroeconomic policies have devastating effects on the environment.

Healthcare managers, professionals and service users operate in an increasingly complex environment in terms of policy, regulation and governance arrangements.

This book uses empirical research to examine fluctuations and periodicities in housing markets in the United Kingdom.

Krankenhauser sind komplexe Unternehmen auf dynamischen Markten, deren Fuhrung ein umfassendes Denken unter Berucksichtigung zahlreicher Interdependenzen erfordert.

This book is a study on the Japanese city gas industry, which has been rapidly liberalized in recent years.

Through its exploration of the spatial dimension of risk, this book offers a brand new approach to theorizing risk, and significant improvements in how to manage, tolerate and take risks.

With more and more of the world's population projected to live in urban areas, the life and death of cities has become a key factor in urban development considerations.

The first comprehensive treatment of data science as a new and powerful way to understand and manage human-environment interactions.

First Published in 2011.

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

The oil industry is set to change dramatically over the next decade with oil consumption needing to drop substantially to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement.

This book provides a critical and theoretically-informed assessment of the nature and types of structural change occurring in the Irish welfare state in the context of the 2008 economic crisis.

In recent years, interest in climate change has rapidly increased in the social sciences and yet there is still relatively little published material in the field that seeks to understand the development of climate change as a perceived social problem.

Most of the existing literature on health system reform in China deals with only one part of the reform process (for example, financing reform in rural areas, or the new system of purchasing pharmaceuticals), or consists of empirical case studies from particular cities or regions.

Jedes Jahr verursacht unsere bisherige Produktions- und Verbrauchsweise große Mengen an Hausmüll.

This textbook provides an introduction to the field of mineral economics and its use in understanding the behaviour of mineral commodity markets and in assessing both public and corporate policies in this important economic sector.

This book provides a timely and insightful analysis of the expansion of biofuels production and use in recent years.

This book presents the proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Global Trends in Health, Technology and Management (GTHTM-2024), held on March 15-17, 2024, in Dehradun, India.

 A guide to the ins and outs of the primary commodity universe, now in its third edition.

As productivity expands to cater for population increase and shifting diets, many individuals remain hungry, whilst others suffer obesity, and significant amounts of food are wasted.

In a world of climate change and declining oil supplies, what is the plan for the provisioning of resources?

This book demonstrates how hospitals can be transformed into dynamic, patient-centered, and cost-effective organizations.

This book addresses both the subject of educational management and the economics of education.

The environmentalist's bible' Times Higher Education Supplement.

Welfare and the Great Recession surveys and analyses welfare consequences in the period following the financial crisis in Europe.

This book is an in-depth study of the Indo-Pacific region for effective interventions in the megacities system.

This title was first published in 2000.

The monetary valuation of environmental goods and services has evolved from a fringe field of study in the late 1970s and early 1980s to a primary focus of environmental economists over the past decade.

This book addresses some of the major issues facing postal and delivery services throughout the world.

Ob vom Arzt oder Ihrer Ärztin, aus Magazinen und anderen Printmedien, aus dem Fernsehen, ob Tipps von Familienmitgliedern und Freunden oder aus dem Internet – überall sind Gesundheitsinformationen gegenwärtig.

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

Serious scholarly analyses of the types and roles of accountability in health care first appeared in the late 1980s.

Everybody's Business is a succinct analysis of the factors that led to the founding of American business schools and why they are the way they are.

Explores the political impacts of ethnic diversity and the growth of the middle class in urban Africa.

This Element examines the development of the pension crisis through the lens of political economy.

The growth of manufacturing industries can be a key factor in helping to mitigate global recession.

Elements of Ecological Economics provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of ecological economics, an interdisciplinary project trying to give answers to the problems related to the overexploitation of the earth's resources today.

Originally published in 1986, this book takes an inter-disciplinary approach to the options for energy in the future.

Ecological economics seeks to socially construct a political economics which will deal successfully with environmental problems and make the individual more visible in economic analysis.

First Published in 2011.