Economics of specific sectors

This book presents a collection of chapters that examine various dimensions of development.

Dieses Fachbuch beleuchtet wo wir global mit unserer bis heute noch fossilen Weltwirtschaft stehen und wie ein Umbau weg von fossilen Brennstoffen nicht allein in Deutschland sondern weltweit gelingen könnte.

This book examines the effectiveness of trade and non-trade policies to combat the menace of child labour.

This book brings together research relating to the economics of disability in Ireland.

Zygmunt Bauman has historically debated the inconsistencies of global capitalism in his different texts and offered a diagnosis of global capitalism based on two main figures: tourists who are privileged agents legally encouraged to move and visit the world and vagabonds who are closely scrutinized and subject to a climate of oppression and immobility.

The proliferation of energy, agricultural, water and food insecurity can be attributed to a multitude of factors, including advancements in technology that have facilitated the technical and economic utilization of energy and water resources, environmental degradation, climate anomalies, mounting pressure on water resources due to escalating demand, and surging energy requirements.

This volume - like the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on which it is based - addresses the fundamental science that contributes to our understanding of the potential risks from ecological terrorism, i.

Why are old technologies persisted with after better alternatives have been invented?

Immiserizing growth occurs when growth fails to benefit, or harms, those at the bottom.

In recent decades, the importance of creative cluster development has gained increasing recognition from national and regional governments.

This book provides new perceptions of rural community development by considering the relationships between communities and individuals.

This text presents statistical methods for studying causal effects and discusses how readers can assess such effects in simple randomized experiments.

Going Circular explores the concept of a circular economy (CE) and its transformative potential for cities and regions.

This study seeks to evaluate the impact of organizational ethical climate on the organizational commitment and job performance of Japanese-funded manufacturing enterprises (JFMEs) in China using empirical analysis and discussion, and includes a review of related research into economic ethics as well as a quantitative analysis of the various types of organizational ethical climates typically found in JFMEs operating in China.

This book explores how gentrification often reinforces traditional gender roles and spatial constructions during the process of reshaping the labour, housing, commercial and policy landscapes of the city.

The book deals with the research activities focussed on solar VAD systems evaluating its merit of compatibility with ozone friendly refrigerants and adoptability with solar energy option.

This book analyses 'zero-waste' (ZW) as an emerging waste management strategy for the future, which considers waste prevention through innovative design and sustainable consumption practices.

This title was first published in 2003.

Language policies are increasingly acknowledged as being a necessary component of many decisions taken in the areas of the labor market, education, minority languages, mobility, and social inclusion of migrants.

This edited volume explores the nature, scope, and consequences of the marketisation of higher education.

With a bias for action, this book offers valuable insights into the origins of the much-celebrated Danish design tradition and how it can be employed to create design solutions to address today's environmental crisis using the planetary boundaries as positive creative constraints.

This book analyzes education in Japan from the viewpoint of "e;the stagnant current Japanese economy"e;.

Das Management von Dienstleistungen zählt zu den zentralen Herausforderungen im Gesundheitssektor.

As "e;business as usual"e; has become the mantra of today's world, it's unlikely to see a decrease in hazardous waste generated from greater economic growth.

This book examines green management practices among top-performing companies operating on the Chinese mainland.

The federal Fair Housing Act of 1968 was passed in a time of turmoil, conflict, and often conflagration in cities across the nation.

Originally published in 1989, The Geography of Urban-Rural Interaction in Developing Countries addresses the nature and importance of the interaction between 'urban' and 'rural' areas within Third World national territories, providing much-needed comparative, cross-cultural, and cross-national material.

Businesses are expected to act sustainably; it is also in both societal and their interests if businesses seek and grasp opportunities to develop more sustainable products or services.

This book explores incentives capable of enhancing the effectiveness of urban planning systems in Sub-Saharan Africa using economic theory as a framework.

This book stems from a four-year experience of a Training Programme addressing members of several Chinese governmental Institutions which, given the moment of extremely intense and fast development of their country, consider the issues of environment and sustainable growth among the foremost priorities.

Design Innovation for Health and Medicine offers an innovative approach for solving complex healthcare issues.

To millions of people in the world, rice is the center of existence, especially in Asia, where more than 90 percent of the world's rice is grown.

Japan is the great economic success story of the postwar period, growing at unprecedented rates to become one of the world's most advanced industrial nations.

In this book, Thomas B.

This book presents statistical processes for health care delivery and covers new ideas, methods and technologies used to improve health care organizations.

The announcement by China that it will implement a national emissions trading scheme confirms the status of this instrument as the pre-eminent policy choice for mitigating climate change.

Questions the doctrinal construction of environmental law and looks for innovative legal approaches to ecological sustainability.

The carbon markets are in the middle of a fundamental crisis - a crisis marked by collapsing prices, fleeing actors, and ever increasing greenhouse gas levels.

This study, originally published in 1990, seeks to address several important policy questions associated with the ongoing depletion of forested wetlands.

Aligning global governance to the challenges of sustainability is one of the most urgent international issues to be addressed.