Economics of specific sectors

This book traces the economic and biological pattern of forest development from initial settlement and harvest activity at the natural forest frontier to modern industrial forest plantations.

"e;This book would be an excellent choice for anyone wishing to be introduced to the field of health economics it is undoubtedly the best 'Health Economics 101' textbook around.

This book evaluates why cities choose to bid for the Olympics, why Olympic bids fail, and whether cities can benefit from failed bids.

Since the 1980's, market-based instruments for environmental policy have become increasingly important.

Forestland investment has surged in the past few decades as a result of land ownership change in the forestry industry.

This book provides a principled approach to classification using the available data in a model which combines information from the social network and the healthcare models.

Advances in public management sciences have long indicated the empirical finding that the normal state of public management systems is complex and that its dynamics are non-linear.

The increasing resistance of bacteria to antibiotics, and pests to pesticides, threatens to undo some of the most remarkable advances made in public health and agriculture during the past century.

A challenge facing society today is how to develop a meaningful strategy for integrated hazardous waste management.

This book summarizes the latest research on drug and gene delivery to the central nervous system (CNS).

The market of municipal solid waste (MSW) collection and disposal has changed substantially over the past thirty years.

Explores how we should react to the political dilemmas of adapting the global economy to confront climate change.

Wir leben in einer Zeit systemischer Krisen.

This revealing portrait of the famously wealthy Persian Gulf city investigates the human cost of its miraculous rise to global prominence.

This companion volume to Economic Instruments for Environmental Management presents essential information on the applications of economic valuation to environment and development.

Growing concerns about the impacts of climate change and dependence on fossil fuels have intensified interest in bioenergy from sugar cane and other crops, highlighting important links between energy, environment and development goals.

Environmental challenges have never been greater than today.

The purpose of this collection of essays is to shed some light on the complex relationship between environmental quality and the distribution of income.

This edited collection broadens the definition of sustainable real estate based on industry trends, research, and the Paris Climate Agreements.

The Uses of Social Investment provides the first study of the welfare state, under the new post-crisis austerity context and associated crisis management politics, to take stock of the limits and potential of social investment.

Winner of the 2024 Silver Nautilus Book Award in the Rising To The Moment category.

Food and architecture, the two pillars of human civilization, have intertwined to such extents to sustain the civilization itself, that the connection between the two has visually ceased to exist.

Regionale Unterschiede innerhalb der EU im Umgang mit der Ressource Wasser beruhen zum einen auf unterschiedlichen hydrogeologischen Gegebenheiten, zum anderen aber auch auf Unterschieden in den Gebrauchsgewohnheiten aufgrund spezifischer Voraussetzungen.

The majority of recent publications on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union address current issues and specific applications.

Climate change could have a substantial economic impact, particularly on coastal states where seas level rises will be felt most strongly.

This book examines the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on the degree of inequality in wellbeing (income and wealth, health, access to health care, employment, and education) in a number of different countries around the globe.

Non-renewable materials can no longer be disposed once humankind's ever increasing needs cannot be fulfilled anymore due to limited resources.

Unterrichtsplanungskompetenz gilt als Kernkompetenz angehender Lehrkräfte.

This is a pioneering study which should serve as a model for future research and will to a wide audience' Dharam Ghai, Director United Nations Research Institute for Social Development Structural Adjustment and the Environment (Earthscan, 1992) was the first book to fully examine the effects of 'structural adjustment programmes the economic reform policies required by the World Bank and IMF as part of their lending operations with borrowing countries.

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

Unterrichtsplanungskompetenz gilt als Kernkompetenz angehender Lehrkräfte.

This volume examines the dominant neoliberal agenda for agricultural development and hunger alleviation in Africa.

This book demonstrates how Morocco and other semi-arid countries can find solutions to water scarcity by rediscovering traditional methods of water resource management.

This book provides a comprehensive and essential resource for healthcare professionals, researchers and students interested in the field of hospital logistics.

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.

Hydroponics, the method of growing plants without soil, presents a feasible alternative to conventional farming in areas which are short on water supply and limited in agricultural soil.

This book highlights recent findings in civil and environmental engineering and urban planning, and provides an overview of the state of the art in these fields, mainly in Russia and Eastern Europe.

This book reviews and evaluates the nationwide soil conservation effort in the United States and suggests broad outlines of a future conservation program.

Sao Paulo, by far the most populated state in Brazil, has an economy to rival that of Colombia or Venezuela.

This book is one of the first to supply the means for evaluating recreational resources in economic terms.

Originally published in 1988.

This book provides readers with insight into current industrial ecology practices in developing and developed countries, how it impacts sustainability, and why it is becoming more relevant.

Het uitgangspunt van dit boek is goede patiëntenzorg, kostenbeheersing en aantrekkelijk werkgeverschap.

Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects, the second in a series, sets out to inform policymakers, practitioners, and scholars about the effectiveness of select policy approaches, reforms, and experiments in addressing key social and economic problems facing cities, suburbs, and metropolitan areas.

This book presents unique management perspectives from Thailand's Healthcare Industry.