Economics of specific sectors

The world is at a critical juncture where our industrial and economic principles have to be reshaped.

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The science is clear: climate change is a fact and the probability is extremely high that it has been caused by humans.

The first edition of this important work was the winner of the 2002 Publication of Enduring Quality award by the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.

Providing a comprehensive analysis of CO2 compression, transportation processes and safety issues for post combustion CO2 capture applications for a 900 MW pulverized hard coal-fired power plant, this book assesses techniques for boosting the pressure of CO2 to pipeline pressure values with a minimal amount of energy.

First systematic study of global cities as lawmakers in the world of transnational climate change governance.

Environmental professionals are often called upon to find solutions to environmental degradation problems or to lead the way in planning to prevent them.

Homeopathy is over 200 years old and is still experiencing an uninterrupted influx of new practitioners and patients.

The book includes seventeen excellent researched and documented papers that reflect the diversity of thought, ideas and experiences related to IWRM.

Marine extremes, as they are conceived of in this volume, encompass environments, activities, events and impacts.

The Routledge Handbook of Urban Logistics offers a state-of-the-art, comprehensive overview of the discipline of urban and city logistics.

Die Entwicklung des Betrieblichen Gesundheitsmanagements in Theorie und Praxis Motivation Die Auseinandersetzung mit dem Betrieblichen Gesundheitsmanagement stellt heutzutage ohne Frage einen Teil des Managements in Organisationen dar, der nicht mehr weg zu denken ist.

This book, based on extensive international collaborative research, highlights the state-of-the-art design of smart living for metropolises, megacities, and metacities, as well as at the community and neighbourhood level.

This is a companion book to Earthscan's 2010 book Climate Change Adaptation and International Development.

Why the traditional “pledge and review” climate agreements have failed, and how carbon pricing, based on trust and reciprocity, could succeed.

This book contains the contributions presented at the 6th international KES conference on Smart Education and e-Learning (KES SEEL-2019), which took place at St.

Originally published in 1981, this book discusses the development of higher cost North Sea gas and oil fields.

This contributed volume draws a vital picture of the health care sector, which, like no other is affected by technology push and stakeholder pull.

Patient-oriented approaches to healthcare management have been brought to the fore in recent years, yet this book underlines how even further change is needed in order to fully mobilise the experiential knowledge of patients, and ultimately improve our healthcare systems.

This book investigates various kinds of climate change mitigation behaviour, which range from a general support of environmental policy to concrete energy-saving activities, in selected countries.

This original contribution to the field is the first to bring economic sociology theory to the study of federal land exchanges.

The multidisciplinary book assesses the legal and economic uncertainties surrounding the collection, storage, provision and economic development of biological samples (tumors, tissues, cells) and associated personal data related to oncology.

This book answers the question of how to design a sharing system that can promote sustained, meaningful, and socially constructive sharing practices in today's cities.

This Element addresses the often-neglected politics and governance of behaviour change needed to address the climate crisis.

The 2007-2008 financial crisis exposed the shortcomings of mainstream economic theory with economists unprepared to deal with it.

This book studies the extent to which nuclear safety issues have contributed towards the stagnation of nuclear power development around the world, and accounts for differences in safety regulations in different countries.

Climate change and other ecological ills are driving the creation of a grassroots global movement for change.

In diesem Buch wird eine Konzeption für das Prozesscontrolling entwickelt und analysiert, inwieweit eine solche Konzeption sinnvoll und gewinnbringend im Krankenhaus genutzt werden kann.

Die Erneuerbaren Energien sind in Deutschland zu einem bedeutenden Industriezweig geworden und ein Motor für Innovation, Wachstum und Beschäftigung.

During the last decades, environmental economics as a science has been very successful in improving our understanding of environment-economy interdepen- dence.

To understand the challenges imposed by climate change and the energy transition process on Latin America´s oil producers countries.

This book engages theoretically and empirically with the unprecedented wave of public management reforms in public hospitals in Europe in the past 25 years.

This book discusses leafy spices or herbs known as "e;aromatic herbs"e;, which, apart from being used in culinary art for flavoring of foods and beverages, are also known to possess antiseptic, anti-oxidant and other medicinal properties, in addition to many nutraceutical and cosmetic properties.

A political history of environmental policy and regulation in California, from the Gold Rush to the presentOver the course of its 150-year history, California has successfully protected its scenic wilderness areas, restricted coastal oil drilling, regulated automobile emissions, preserved coastal access, improved energy efficiency, and, most recently, addressed global climate change.

This book examines ways of assessing the rational management of nonrenewable resources.

This book is a conscious effort to discuss the immeasurable environmental damage caused by the human kind and it is by turning these into nature friendly or green as we call them, we can continue to live without any damage to our surroundings.

Environmental policy may produce effects which go beyond the scope of the specific policy's initial aim.

How the subtle but significant consequences of a hotter planet have already begunfrom lower test scores to higher crime ratesand how we might tackle them todayIt's hard not to feel anxious about the problem of climate change, especially if we think of it as an impending planetary catastrophe.

This volume of the International Symposia in Economic Theory and Econometrics explores the latest economic and financial developments in Asia.

How only violence and catastrophes have consistently reduced inequality throughout world historyAre mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality?

The changing economic environment for the consumer that is emerging from the wreckage of the financial credit crunch plays directly into the importance of food spending.

This book describes how local consumption, particularly in urban areas, is increasingly met by global supply chains.

This book is the fourth in the series on leadership, interprofessional education and practice, following on from Leadership Development for Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice (2014), Leadership and Collaboration: Further Developments for IPE and Collaborative Practice (2015) and Leading Research and Evaluation in Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice (2016).