Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in an agricultural cooperative running a training programme for aspiring farmers, this book explores the possibilities of agrarian and land-based modes of livelihood in contemporary Japan.
This book critically examines how the narrative of global economic competition was used to rationalize college preparatory curriculum for all high school students and promote charter schools in Detroit.
This book presents a unique overview of significant disparities in health, which exist within complex and multifaceted contexts across different regions.
The Oxford Handbook of Economics and Human Biology provides an extensive and insightful overview of how economic conditions affect human well-being and how human health influences economic outcomes.
The book critically reflects on some of the most important novelties and experimentations in the context of the European Union's renewed urban and regional policy in the last programming period, 2014-2020.
Bringing together a mixture of theoretical discussion, political analyses and illustrative case studies, this volume provides the first comprehensive scholarly analysis of the tension between environmental protection and economic development in Turkey.
This book is a much-needed account, with numerous detailed examples, of the role of housing in economic growth and development by an author in a unique position to understand its importance and the practical measures for delivering that growth.
This book traces the interacting histories of the disciplines of ecology and economics, from their common origin in the ancient Greek concept of oikonomia, through their distinct encounters with energy physics, to the current obstruction of neoliberal economics to responses to the ecological and climate crisis of the so-called Anthropocene.
From its establishment nearly 200 years ago as a village at the centre of an agricultural district, Hamilton has grown into one of Canada's biggest industrial centres, at the heart of a highly developed regional municipality.
The COVID-19 crisis has proven that sustainability of an institution or organization requires a constant review of one's strategic positioning and the execution of pertinent plans in response to evolving externalities.
Dieses Sonderheft vermittelt Controllern und Managern, wie Krankenhäuser und Krankenkassen im komplexen Gesundheitssektor erfolgreich gesteuert und geführt werden können.
This handbook brings together scholars from various disciplines and from around the world to examine the history, characteristics, effects, viability and implementation of basic income.
This book is dedicated to population health management and how it can be used to improve the health care and outcomes for patients with poly chronic conditions.
The international community has long grappled with the issue of safeguarding the environment and encouraging sustainable development, often with little result.
En tant que pays mégadivers, le Costa Rica est connu dans le monde entier pour avoir réussi à inverser la déforestation et à poursuivre un modèle de croissance fondé sur l'utilisation durable de ses ressources environnementales.
The faculty at the University of Houston's program in Futures Studies share their comprehensive, integrated approach to preparing foresight professionals and assisting others doing foresight projects.
Das Standardlehrbuch für Betriebswirtschaft und Management in der Gesundheitswirtschaft in vollständig überarbeiteter und erweiterter Neuauflage beschreibt grundlegende Aspekte des deutschen Sozialversicherungssystems von Arbeitslosen- bis Unfallversicherung begründet, warum gesundheitsökonomische Evaluationen und Kosten-Nutzen-Analysen relevant sind und nennt wesentliche Evaluationskriterien erläutert Funktionen, Herausforderungen, Reformen und Ziele der Gesundheitspolitik beschreibt Strukturen und Funktionen ausgewählter Versorgungssysteme in den Bereichen Krankenhaus, ambulanter, psychiatrischer und rehabilitativer Versorgung sowie stationärer Pflegeeinrichtungen analysiert den Wandel vom Gesundheitssystem zur Gesundheitswirtschaft bezüglich deren Grundlagen, Ursachen, Folgen und veränderten Rahmenbedingungen klärt, warum Ethik in der Gesundheitswirtschaft wichtig ist erläutert, warum funktionales, personales und strukturales -Management in der Gesundheitswirtschaft bedeutend ist stellt relevante Managementkonzepte in der Gesundheitswirtschaft vor - von Kaizen und Lean Management über das Management von Risiken, Versorgung und Wissen sowie Entlassungen, Informationen, Material und Pflege bis hin zu Prozess- und Qualitätsmanagement zeigt, wie mit den Steuerungsinstrumenten Controlling und Kennzahlen Unternehmensziele realisiert werden können beschreibt die Möglichkeiten und Instrumente einer markt-orientierten Unternehmensführung mit Fundraising und Marketing.
This book presents current theories of European integration, such as federalism, neo-functionalism and liberal intergovernmentalism with their strengths and weaknesses.
This book focuses on different sustainable products and services, such as electrical vehicles, green buildings, and biophilic and biomimetic systems, at multiple hierarchical levels within its chapters.
This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the determinants of EU support between 2006 and 2015, and of electoral behavior during the European Parliament elections.
Leaving aside human and social capital for a future volume, the book should be viewed as a crucial first step in developing indicators for total wealth in the countries covered by the case studies, which include Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Mozambique and South Africa.