Economics of specific sectors

Humankind benefits from a multitude of resources and processes that are supplied by ecosystems, and collectively these benefits are known as ecosystem services.

In an era of dramatic environmental change, social change is desperately needed to curb burgeoning consumption.

This volume provides an analytical and facts-based overview on the progress achieved in water security in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region over during the last decade, and its links to regional development, food security and human well-being.

Through an approach strongly oriented to socio-health contexts and healthcare facilities, with multidisciplinary contributions on the methodological and technical aspects, or legislative issues, the book provides tools and design strategies to plan and realize therapeutic places and healing gardens for care, rehabilitation, interaction, and social inclusion.

The book explains the reasons for the recent economic success of Turkey by examining the transformation of the private sector and the development policies implemented by the Turkish government.

In the Romantic period, women writers developed specific aesthetics and writing strategies in their engagements with climate change and climate catastrophe.

Housing is a fundamental need and universal part of human living that shapes our lives in profound ways that go far beyond basic sheltering.

This Palgrave Pivot looks through social, economic, institutional, and environmental lenses to examine sustainable development in India and Bangladesh.

This book examines the effects of the pandemic on supply chains and consequent adjustments made by companies to cope with these effects.

China, a still developing economy comprising a fifth of the world's population, will play a key role in the global movement towards reducing carbon emissions.

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This book, originally published in 1995, examines the evolution of environmental policy in 6 OECD countries.

Controlled stochastic processes with discrete time form a very interest- ing and meaningful field of research which attracts widespread attention.

Pilot Project, India: The Story of Rural Development at Etawah, Uttar Pradesh by Albert Mayer offers an in-depth exploration of a groundbreaking rural development initiative that laid the foundation for Indias community development programs.

This book examines the economic incentives for food safety in the private marketplace and how public actions have helped shape those incentives.

Product Policy in Europe: New Environmental Perspectives presents an overview and assessment of a relatively new area of environmental policy in Europe.

Das Gesundheitswesen befindet sich an einem Wendepunkt.

Sustainability in Transition: Principles for Developing Solutions offers the first in-depth education-focused treatment of how to address sustainability in a comprehensive manner.

How, where and when can a universal basic income be put into political practice?

Sustainable innovation (SI) is considered to be a key driver of societal progress in an era of enormous economic, environmental and societal challenges, and the uncertainties and future consequences that come with them.

This book reviews and defines the current state of the art for informatics education in medicine and health care.

This book was written to help buyers develop a road map to negotiation success.

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

Between the 1950's and 1970's, the Sulphur industry continued to grow despite occasional shortages and excesses.

This book brings together geological, biological, radical economic, technological, historical and social perspectives on peak oil and other scarce resources.

This book seeks to deepen readers' understanding of world history by investigating urbanization and the evolution of urban systems, as well as the urban world, from the perspective of historical analysis.

This book by the Asia Competitiveness Institute (ACI) undertakes rigorous empirical research relating to competitiveness of states and federal territories in India.

Regional development problems in China have been focused on by many analysts and policy makers.

Planning and Managing Smaller Events: Downsizing the Urban Spectacle explores the role of smaller scale events in contributing to the renewal and development of urban societies.

Recent years have seen a gathering interest in the importance of real estate development to the growth and development of cities.

This book presents an important discussion on soil and sustainable agriculture from a range of perspectives, addressing key topics such as sustainable intensification, the FAO Voluntary Guidelines, and the crucial role of appropriate tenure rights.

This book explores structural changes in Greenland's economy and labour markets due to the transformative effects of climatic changes and growing international attention.

This book discusses the design and practice of environmental resources management for smart cities.

This volume collects papers presented at the International 100% Renewable Energy Conferences (IRENEC) from 2011 to 2015.

This book presents fresh research on how Foreign Direct Investments (FDI), Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), patterns of clustering, digitalization and innovation policies, interact and influence India's industrialisation and its greening or sustainability.

This book presents advanced methodologies for analyzing attitudes towards the COVID-19 vaccine across 10 countries spanning both the Northern and Southern hemispheres, employing cutting-edge Big Data and Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) techniques.

Environmental Economics and Ecosystem Services provides a rigorous yet accessible introduction to environmental economics, using ecosystem services as the underlying framework.

Originally published in 1990, this study tracks the issues, progress and problems in environmental issues in the United States from the 1980's.

Originally published in 1990, Economic Growth and Urbanization in Developing Areas is a wide-ranging collection of research studies focused on urban economic growth at various levels of urban and national development.

Esta guía pretende ayudar a las organizaciones a establecer una estrategia de desarrollo hacia un crecimiento sostenible para ser rentables a largo plazo, dejando atrás la dinámica "extraer-fabricar-usar-tirar".

This book is devoted to the issue of how we can learn to live together in the face of division and conflict.

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

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of building design and construction, by focusing on new design solutions for buildings and new technologies creation for construction, as presented by researchers and engineers at the 3rd International Conference Building Innovations (ICBI), held in Poltava - Baku, Ukraine - Azerbaijan, on June 1-2, 2020.

Yoshimatsu explores the causes and implications of the diverse degree of institution-building in East Asia by examining two processes of initiating and developing multilateral institutions in five policy areas: trade, finance, food security, energy security, and the environment.

Incentives for innovation are particularly relevant in the pharmaceutical industry where not all social needs provide equally profitable opportunities and where most OECD countries try to implement different measures that promote research in these less profitable areas.

Gecekondu settlements-or shanty towns-in large Turkish cities are mostly populated by low-income families, many of which have migrated from the villages of Central Anatolia.