Economics of specific sectors

Environmental risk directly affects the financial stability of banks since they bear the financial consequences of the loss of liquidity of the entities to which they lend and of the financial penalties imposed resulting from the failure to comply with regulations and for actions taken that are harmful to the natural environment.

Most of the existing literature on health system reform in China deals with only one part of the reform process (for example, financing reform in rural areas, or the new system of purchasing pharmaceuticals), or consists of empirical case studies from particular cities or regions.

Crow and Albright outline if, what, and when communities learn from disasters to make them more resilient to future shocks.

Global climate change is one of the challenges ever to confront humanity with the largest scale, widest scope and most far-reaching influence.

The computer revolution both in the hardware as well as in software has made it possible for economists to analyze complex issues which could not be solved in the past by analytical methods.

This critical volume addresses an important contemporary issue, how to determine themost cost-effective approach to solid waste disposal.

Approximately 10% of North Americans have some communication disorder.

This title was first published in 2001.

This book demonstrates how hospitals can be transformed into dynamic, patient-centered, and cost-effective organizations.

Alongside other factors, cultural values and identities help to explain different regulatory frameworks for genetically modified organisms.

This proceedings volume provides a multifaceted perspective on the unprecedented crises generated by the global COVID-19 pandemic, and its ramifications for individuals, businesses, organizations, governments and systems in developing countries.

Bringing together contributions from an international group of social scientists, this collection examines diverse crises, both historical and contemporary, which implicate market forces, widening inequalities, social exclusion, forms of resistance, and ideological polarisation.

Das vorliegende Buch behandelt das Konzept des Least-Cost Planning ("Minimalkosten-Planung").

Utilizing the results of a case study on the Gare-Lac sector in the city of Yverdon-les-Bains - the site is currently a large urban brownfield, intended to host ca.

What do we mean by inequality comparisons?

This book explores for the first time the punk phenomenon in contemporary China.

This is the first book dedicated exclusively to the question of the relationships between sustainability and the capability approach.

Dieses Arbeitsbuch ist die Fortsetzung von „Change Management in Gesundheitsunternehmen“, in dem nun der Schwerpunkt auf der Vermittlung von praxisnahen und anwendbaren Methoden im Gesundheitswesen liegt.

Lessons in Sustainable Development from Japan and South Korea provides a concise overview of sustainable development in Japan and South Korea.

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.

Although in Europe there continues to be a large degree of consensus that it is the responsibility of government to ensure that nobody who is poor, sick, disabled, unemployed, or old is left deprived, there are mounting calls to roll back spending on the welfare state.

Examines the politics shaping whether, how and to what extent cities engage in global climate governance.

Health threats pose significant dangers to humankind and form a major source of human suffering and sorrow.

The environmentalist's bible' Times Higher Education Supplement.

The environmental justice literature convincingly shows that poor people and minorities live in more polluted neighborhoods than do other groups.

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

Tropical forests are disappearing at an unaltered pace, giving way to alternative land uses.

Although the expression "e;responsibility to future generations"e; is firmly established in public and political vocabulary, its operational meaning and practice are inadequately understood and yet to be systematically evaluated.

A collection of international case studies that demonstrate the importance of ideas to urban political developmentIdeas, interests, and institutions are the "e;holy trinity"e; of the study of politics.

For over a decade, Global Health Watch has been the definitive source for alternative analysis on health.

All over the world countries struggle with water stress.

An exploration of product certification programs and the factors that explain their varied success in becoming global governors equipped to tackle environmental and social problems effectively Consumers now encounter organic or fair-trade labels on a variety of products, implying such desirable benefits as improved environmental conditions or more equitable market transactions.

China's rise as an economic powerhouse raises a number of questions that are the subject of lively debate.

This book presents simulation as an essential, powerful tool to develop the best possible healthcare system for patients.

This book covers a wide range of topics within mathematical modelling and the optimization of economic, demographic, technological and environmental phenomena.

Economics, Ethics, and Environmental Policy: Contested Choices offers a comprehensive analysis of the ethical problems associated with basing environmental policy on economic analysis, and ways to overcome these problems.

Housing is a fundamental need and universal part of human living that shapes our lives in profound ways that go far beyond basic sheltering.

Interfuel substitution is an issue that is - and will likely remain - an important topic of inquiry for many years, as governments around the world seek to set policies that are intended to restrain carbon emissions or steer economies toward or away from certain fuels.

Portugal managed to decouple several environmental pressures from economic growth over 2013-19.

This book meticulously elaborates on the theory of public goods supply, delving into government supply, market (private) supply, voluntary supply, and multi-stakeholder cooperative supply mechanisms.

This book considers how basic income could be used as a mechanism for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in African agrarian societies.

This book uses simple economic theories to explain how China's agricultural economic phenomena exists in reality.

The airline industry is fundamental to the workings of the global economy.

No matter how many resources we consume we never seem to have enough.

In a unique undertaking, Andrew Yuengert explores and describes the limits to the economic model of the human being, providing an alternative account of human choice, to which economic models can be compared.

Japan today is caught up in chronic economic crisis, its financial system wracked by record-breaking bankruptcies and its companies hobbled by bad balance sheets, overproduction, and weak consumer demand.

Nuclear technology places special demands on society and both nuclear weapons and nuclear energy for peaceful purposes require a large measure of security and monitoring at the international level.