Economics of specific sectors

In order to fill a growing need for research into forestry issues, Resources for the future held a symposium in 1977.

This book explores the discourse on urban and regional inequality within the framework of neoliberalism.

Feeding the world's growing human population is increasingly challenging, especially as more people adopt a western diet and lifestyle.

The purpose of this book is to call for a wholesale rethinking of the way that markets treat both the labour and natural resources on which we all depend.

This is the first book to focus on farm and rural community management in less favored areas of Japan.

An analysis of the global climate talks and the key human systems threatened by increased greenhouse gas emissions including health, refugee management, energy production, carbon markets and local government.

Degrowth Decolonization and Development reveals common underlying cultural roots to the multiple current crises.

An illustrated overview of the sustainability of natural resources and the social and environmental issues surrounding their distribution and demand.

In a world of high finance, unprecedented technological change, and cyber billionaires, it is easy to forget that a major source of global wealth is, literally, right under our noses.

This book provides a balanced critique of a range of international sustainability certification schemes across nine agricultural and natural resource industries.

In recent years, resilience theory has come to occupy the core of our understanding and management of the adaptive capacity of people and places in complex social and environmental systems.

There has been a recent explosion of research incorporating a spatial dimension in environmental and natural resource economics, where the spatial aspects of human behaviour or the natural environment make a crucial difference in the analysis and policy response to the problem.

This study represents the first scholarly attempt to consider the difficult allocation problems associated with management of natural resources and proposed changes in the natural environment.

This book aims to present the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Big Data in healthcare for medical decision making and data analysis in myriad fields including Radiology, Radiomics, Radiogenomics, Oncology, Pharmacology, COVID-19 prognosis, Cardiac imaging, Neuroradiology, Psychiatry and others.

This book addresses a timely and compelling emerging issue related to the conservation and sustainable use of marine resources and the sustainable development of the coastal community.

Why, despite vast resources being expended on health and health care, is there still so much ill health and premature death?

Nowhere is the injustice of the global distribution of income and wealth more palpable than in health.

Originally published in 1990, The Isolated City State asks the questions, why have the world's major cities experienced explosive growth?

Foreign finance for private sector development (PSD) has become popular with the donor community and in multilateral development policy fora, seen as an antidote for recipient economies' aid dependency and a way of accomplishing growth, poverty reduction and empowerment.

Emissions trading challenges the management of companies in an entirely new manner: Not only does it, like other market-based environmental policy instruments, allow for a bigger flexibility in management decisions concerning emission issues.

Imperial Inequalities takes Western European empires and their legacies as the explicit starting point for discussion of issues of taxation and welfare.

More than three billion people in the world live on less than two-and-a-half U.

Water and energy are inextricably linked as unsound management of either resource can have an impact on the cost, availability, and sustainability of the other.

Practical Finance for Property Investment provides readers with an introduction to the most fundamental concepts, principles, analytical methods, and tools useful for making investing and financing decisions regarding income-producing property.

The sign that 'Africa is on Sale' has been appearing with regular frequency in major newspaper accounts across the world, indicating that large amounts/expanses of Africa's rich farmlands are being sold to transnational investors, usually on long-term leases, at a rate not seen in decades - indeed not since the colonial period.

Applied Welfare Economics uses important results in the welfare economics literature to extend a conventional Harberger cost-benefit analysis.

This book explores one of the most prevailing problems of the contemporary urban world, i.

Originally published in 1987, Cost-Benefit Analysis in Urban and Regional Planning, outlines the theory and practice of cost-benefit analysis (CBA) in the context of urban and regional planning.

International observers have lauded Rwanda as an example of an African country taking control of its own development trajectory, and as a market-friendly destination for investment.

This volume brings together case studies from around the globe (including China, Latin America, the Philippines, Namibia, India and Europe) to explore the history of nature conservation in the twentieth century.

Urban land is a precious resource and originally published in 1961, Transportation and Urban Land aims to create an approach to analysing and projecting its uses with a particular focus on the household sector.

The world struggles with increasing threats to global sustainability, caused by population growth, overuse of fresh water resources, depletion of biodiversity, and reliance on non-renewable energy sources.

This book is the second collection of systematic case studies describing national environmental policies in 17 countries in terms of capacity building (see Appen- dix).

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become an important concept in the last few decades.

Arne Bünger leistet mit den Ergebnissen seiner Untersuchungen der Innovations- und Adaptionsfähigkeit, der Nachhaltigkeitsorientierung sowie der Identifizierung von verschiedenen Akteurstypen in der Schweine- und Geflügelproduktion einerseits und der Algen- und Insektenproduktion andererseits einen Beitrag zum besseren Verständnis von sozio-technischen Transformationen und stärkt den bislang unterrepräsentierten Raum- und Akteursbezug in der Transformationsforschung.

This book is a timely overview of the various aspects of consumer perception related to food.

This edited volume portrays marketplaces from a mobility perspective as dynamic and open entities consisting of flows of people, goods and ideas.

This book traces the history of bird guano, demonstrating how this unique commodity helped unite the Pacific Basin with the industrialized world.

This book explains why oil prices rose so spectacularly in the past and examines how they will be suppressed in the future.

This book provides a missing link between marginality, migration and education in Zimbabwe, focusing on the educational experiences of migrants' children in an effort to influence government policies concerning migrant parents and their left-behind children.

This book gives readers the theoretical and empirical methods to analyze applied economics.

This book argues that current economist theories do not take into account the socially constructed nature of the debate surrounding the environment and environmental policy.

This book describes and analyses necessities for a more resource-efficient world.

The Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution was established to foster policy innovation from leading economic thinkersideas based on evidence and experience, not ideology and doctrine.

Global climate change is expected to have major impacts on water resources and aquatic ecosystems.