Economics of specific sectors

A comprehensive analysis of environmental externality, combining theory, algorithms, and applications to provide a unified and balanced framework.

The economy is so powerful in determining the results of U.

This book analyses the status and prospects of the global governance of Access Benefit Sharing (ABS) in the aftermath of 2010's Nagoya Protocol to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).

The inherent dangers of war zones constrain even the most ardent researchers, with the consequence that little has been known for certain about the effects of war on stable environments.

Motivated by the rapid increase in housing demand and the population of older adults worldwide, this book provides an interdisciplinary and multi-level approach for studying housing and ageing issues and relevant policy analysis in China, and beyond.

This book explores the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and sustainability in healthcare, focusing on how AI technologies are transforming medical practices while promoting environmentally responsible operations.

The book provides an overview of the policy frameworks that have been employed to support offshore wind power, and their efficacy in nurturing sustainable cost reductions across the industry.

For the past three decades, neoclassical doctrine has dominated economic theory and policy.

Originally published in 1986.

In November 2019, a new strain of coronavirus appeared in Wuhan, China, and quickly spread across the world.

The concept of green growth, coupled with one of green economy and low carbon development, is a global concern especially in the face of the multiple crises that the world has faced in recent years - climate, oil, food, and financial crises.

This book is the first systematic attempt to address emerging land markets and their implications for poverty, equity, and efficiency across a number of African countries.

Degrowth is a rejection of the illusion of growth and a call to repoliticize the public debate colonized by the idiom of economism.

Um den Klimawandel abzubremsen, ist es zwingend erforderlich, die Treibhausgasemissionen zu verringern.

This study analyzes the impact of the revision of the Indian Patent Act (2005) on the Indian pharmaceutical industry, which has been achieving healthy growth over the past 30 to 40 years or more.

A case study of the introduction of mass production of machinery into the grain and cattle economy of Argentina.

Examining the issues of ethics and justice as they apply to the environment, this book starts from the observation that the parallel expositions of environmental ethics and environmental justice appear to have few points of contact.

It is now accepted that the world's climate has warmed by about 0.

This book provides a clear outline of the key principles underlying property valuation and the current techniques and issues in the practice of valuation for the major sectors of the Australian real estate market.

This book qualitatively and quantitatively examines the relationships between the constructed environment, health and social vulnerability.

In the 1980s and 1990s successive United Kingdom governments enacted a series of reforms to establish a more market-oriented economy, closer to the American model and further away from its Western European competitors.

In an era of dramatic environmental change, social change is desperately needed to curb burgeoning consumption.

Recognizing increasing returns disrupts much of the established wisdom in economic analysis, making money non-neutral, equity conflict with freedom, and encouraging goods with increasing returns efficient.

Originally published in 1980.

The aim of this book is to catalyse global interest in the pursuit of transformational changes in natural resource and environmental management.

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.

This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the most important water-related issues that centre on Italy, analysed from several disciplinary perspectives - such as hydrology, economics, law, sociology, environmental sciences and policy studies - in order to promote full understanding of the challenges the country is facing and the ways it could best tackle them.

The interrelationship among development, environment, and human needs is one of the key issues being faced by the world today.

Segregation: The Rising Costs for America documents how discriminatory practices in the housing markets through most of the past century, and that continue today, have produced extreme levels of residential segregation that result in significant disparities in access to good jobs, quality education, homeownership attainment and asset accumulation between minority and non-minority households.

 This volume, in a sense, aims at reflecting the qualities of the honoree and it does so in two respects.

This book reviews the global preparedness to pandemic challenges to human health and development by compiling the brilliant ideas of experts and entrepreneurs from the fields of public health, health economics, environmental engineering, pharmaceutical interventions, and other related fields.

Ecological Economics from the Ground Up takes a unique and much-needed bottom-up approach to teaching ecological economics and political ecology, using case studies that focus on a wide range of internationally relevant topics, to teach the principles, concepts, methods and tools of these fields, which are seen as increasingly important in the context of the current triple social, economic and environmental crisis.

Independent, rigorous and comprehensive analysis of the economic aspects of climate change.

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

This book examines some of the evolving challenges faced by EU regional policy in light of enlargement and to assess some of the approaches and trends in terms of territorial development policy and practice that are emerging out of this process.

Industrial production and consumption patterns rely heavily on the intensive use of both renewable and non-renewable resources and the consequences for the environment can be serious.

A leading economist develops a supply-side approach to fighting climate change that encourages resource owners to leave more of their fossil carbon underground.

The 17th Symposium on Operations Research was held at Universitat der Bundeswehr Hamburg, August 25-28, 1992, as the annual meeting of the Gesellschaft fur Mathematik, Okonomie und Operations Research (GMOOR).

The book revisits the causes of persisting under nutrition in India, but moves away from the usual focus on women and children to a broader view of the entire population.

This book provides an overview of the history, basic concepts, and provision models of infrastructure, significant theories on infrastructure economics, practices at home and abroad that reflect the economic development effects of infrastructure, and four infrastructure economic growth models.

The term 'housing crisis' has recently been associated with rising foreclosure rates and tottering financial institutions, particularly in the US and Europe.

A cutting-edge analysis of the key issues and policy options facing future global climate governance, written by leading world experts.

Our Plastic Problem and How to Solve It considers plastic''s harms and offers a spectrum of public and private solutions.

The power of capital is the power to target our attention, mould market-ready identities, and reduce the public realm to an endless series of choices.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of building design and construction, by focusing on new design solutions for buildings and new technologies creation for construction, as presented by researchers and engineers at the 4th International Conference Building Innovations (ICBI), held in Poltava - Baku, Ukraine - Azerbaijan, on May 19-20, 2022.