Economics of specific sectors

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.

The development of Nigeria's oil industry is examined comprehensively in this book, originally published in 1984.

How can we build the institutions that will promote the cooperation needed to meet our intertwined environmental and economic needs?

This book presents a unique overview of significant disparities in health, which exist within complex and multifaceted contexts across different regions.

Across the US, cities and metropolitan areas are facing huge economic and competitive challenges that Washington won't, or can't, solve.

This handbook provides the most comprehensive examination of Asian cities-developed and developing, large and small-and their urban development.

This book presents an analytic history of American energy policy, examining policy failures and how the policy process itself leads to failure.

How to avoid catastrophe and lift prosperity and human welfare – a manual for the transition to a low GHG-emissions economy.

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 compares urban finances in cities located in two different South Asian countries and assesses their fiscal health.

This book discusses the issues of integration within food and fibre supply chains and the challenges in managing price risk.

Since the 1992 Earth Summit, there have been increased efforts on an international scale to address global climate change.

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.

Explores the sustainable farming movement through reference to three detailed case studies of organisations operating in rural India.

This book highlights the importance of economic knowledge in government decision-making.

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.

This book focuses on sustainability in fashion retail, which is fast becoming the pivot point of future fashion retail strategies.

Assessing natural resource damages often requires the use of nonmarket valuation techniques that were developed for use in benefit-cost analyses.

Nearly every day brings news of another merger or acquisition involving the companies that control our food supply.

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.

First published in 1992, this Routledge Revival sees the reissue of a truly original exploration of the nature of urbanization and capitalism.

Human well-being relies critically on ecosystem services provided by nature.

This books examines economic conditions and policies in Sweden.

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.

Risk analysis is not a narrowly defined set of applications.

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.

Enriches our understanding of how individuals, groups, and institutions can effectively cooperate to govern shared spaces and resources.

This book approaches economic problems from a systems thinking and feedback perspective.

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.

The health care system in Canada receives a great deal of international attention, but it is subject to considerable critique and debate locally.

Asset-based policies are becoming an increasingly important form of social policy globally.

Uneven Urbanscape draws on decades of empirical research to examine ethnoracial disparity in urban Los Angeles.

This book is the first attempt to highlight the Great Divergence between Europe and China from the perspective of environmental change.

This book explains how social psychological concepts can be closely integrated with sociotechnical perspectives of energy transitions.

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.

The research projects at Fondazione Mattei have for some time now been dealing with the international dimension of environmental policy.

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.

This volume analyzes the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on energy transition and climate change from an economic perspective.