Economics of specific sectors

Abandoned factories, shipyards, warehouses, and refineries are features of many industrialized cities around the world.

Technology, Globalization, and Sustainable Development offers a unified, transdisciplinary approach for transforming the industrial state in order to promote sustainable development.

The task of modelling the evolution of cities - the dynamics - is one of the major challenges of the social sciences.

Textbook on the science and methods behind a global transition to 100% clean, renewable energy for science, engineering, and social science students.

This handbook brings together recent advances in the areas of supply chain optimization, supply chain management, and life-cycle cost analysis of bioenergy.

This Element, examines organization theory and how healthcare researchers have drawn on organization theory in healthcare management.

This book explores the causes and consequences of market failure in bridging societal differences to create a shared economy.

This brief views the environment through diverse lenses - those of standard economics, institutional economics, political science, environmental science and ecology.

Thinking about a career in property or construction?

​Das Problem der Zuteilung knapper medizinischer Ressourcen auf Patienten mit unterschiedlichen Krankheiten und Bedürfnissen findet sich in vielen Situationen des klinischen Alltags, wie z.

This book highlights the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cities.

Air Transport and the Environment provides an overview of the main issues relating to aviation environmental impacts.

Sustainability: Key Issues is a comprehensive introductory textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate students doing courses in sustainability.

Das Buch unterstützt bei der Anwendung der Verfahren für die Planungspraxis zur stätischen (urbanen) Verkehrssystemen und gibt Anleitung für die Interpretation der Ergebnisse.

A multidisciplinary analysis of the role of nutrition in generating hierarchical societies and cultivating a global epidemic of chronic diseases.

An Introduction to Sustainability provides students with a comprehensive overview of the key concepts and ideas which are encompassed within the growing field of sustainability.

Governance challenges and solutions for the provision of global public goods in such areas as the environment, food security, and development.

With the impending demise of modernist planning, the footprints and corpses of failed modernist visions are littered everywhere.

With such a wide range of social and economic uses, energy has become essential to global infrastructure and operations, regardless of economic or environmental cost.

This book presents narratives, perspectives and policies on the Arctic and brings to fore the strategies of five Asian countries - China, India, Japan, Republic of Korea and Singapore who were granted the status of Permanent Observers in the Arctic Council in 2013.

The importance of the built environment to environmental protection is well established, with strict environmental regulations now a feature of the working lives of planners, contractors, building designers, and quantity surveyors alike.

This book makes the case for the welfare state.

This book provides a wider understanding of the geographies of the platform economy, focusing on the critical perspectives that have emerged on this new economic and digital context.

Integrating science, economics and policy, this book explains the urgency of sticking to a strict carbon budget.

This book addresses the puzzle, Can David take on Goliath in multilateral economic negotiations, and if so, then under what conditions?

Short food supply chains (SFSCs) rely primarily on local production and processing practices for the provision of food and are, in principle, more sustainable in social, economic and environmental terms than supply chains where production and consumption are widely separated.

Social protection systems in Latin America developed in a fragmented manner, offering varying access to benefits and benefit levels to population groups.

This book examines the design of two care pathways to establish how key principles associated with systems thinking, quality improvement, and supply chain management can improve the design of these services.

This book explores the present conflictual relationship between the economy, the environment, and society.

This two-volume set presents the conference papers from the 1st International Conference on Economics, Development and Sustainability (EDESUS 2019), organized by the University of Economics and Business, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.

This book offers an intellectual history of the libertarian case for markets in education.

The oak tree was a boon companion as humans expanded their presence across much of the globe.

In 1962, the Committee on Urban Economics held a conference on public expenditure decisions in order to promote analysis of the issues facing the public sector of the urban economy.

An in-depth look at the rising American generation entering the Black professional classDespite their diversity, Black Americans have long been studied as a uniformly disadvantaged group.

The most practical, up-to-date guide for turning Brownfields into Greenfields This ready-to-use, how-to manual--edited by active developers who have bought, remediated, and sold brownfields--gives you a commanding look at one of today's leading environmental issues.

Sustainable engineering is of great importance for resilient and agile technology and society.

Collaborative innovation networks are cyberteams of motivated individuals, and are self-organizing emergent social systems with the potential to promote health, happiness and individual growth in real-world work settings.

This is the first scholarly analysis that examines the development and achievements of the American community development movement.

Household appliances encompass a large variety of equipment including the cold appliances (refrigerators and freezers), the wet appliances (washing machines, dishwashers and dryers), the space conditioning appliances (heaters, air- conditioners, heat pumps, fans, boilers), the water heaters, the cooking appliances, a wide array of consumer electronics (such as TVs, VCRs, HiFi systems) and miscellaneous small appliances (such as vacuum cleaners, irons, toasters, hairdryers and power tools).

This book focuses on the application of newly innovated analytical tools for sustainable development on regional economic and environmental issues in Korea.

This book explores environmental challenges in the Baltic region from an economic perspective.

Urban Economy: Real Estate Economics and Public Policy analyses urban economic change and public policy in a more practical way than a typical urban economics book.

During the last few decades, China has accomplished unprecedented economic growth and has emerged as the second largest economy in the world.