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This book offers an in-depth and systematic introduction to improved failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) methods for proactive healthcare risk analysis.

In view of the increasing quest for environmental management in businesses, this book provides a good reference to firms to understand how they may manage their supply chains to improve business and environmental performance.

Originally published in 1984.

Today, interest in monetary history has been revived.

The book analyses the influence of corruption on economic growth and environmental protection, examining corruption from different perspectives.

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

This book, based on lectures on natural and environmental resource economics, offers a nontechnical exposition of the modern theory of sustainability in the presence of resource scarcity.

This book offers a lively account of the humanitarian, economic, societal, and planetwide impacts of the pandemics, the COVID-19 pandemic included, which are traced back to as early as the 14th century plague pandemic.

Based on research-informed 'future-scoping' and emerging practice in the field of executive education this bookis split into three parts: Future Context, Future Learning and Future Learners.

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Evictions in the UK examines the relationships between tenants, landlords, housing providers and government agencies and the tensions and conflicts that characterise these relations.

This book illustrates two approaches for firms to shape successful circular strategies, namely, the Circular Economy and Circular Districts.

This new health atlas of Japan presents a series of maps about the health of the contemporary Japanese population, i.

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

In her recent book Suiting Themselves, bestselling author Sharon Beder exposed how the global corporate elite have brazenly rewritten the rules of the global economy to line their pockets.

This book examines policy responses to food waste and loss, an issue of significant, global concern, with one-third of food produced for human consumption lost or wasted.

Die Energiewende ist das derzeit größte Wirtschafts- und Infrastrukturprojekt in Deutschland.

This book fills a major gap in research into smoking and tobacco control in China.

This book will change the way Americans think about their cities.

Originally published in 1973 and based on papers published in The International Journal of Environmental Studies, this book discusses the impact of road vehicles on the environment.

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Although economists have long advocated the use of economic instruments in the implementation of environmental policy, they have only recently gained acceptance.

In 1981 Chile's military government dictated a new Water Code that radically changed the country's previous water rights system by strengthening private property rights, favoring market incentives, and reducing state regulation.

This volume brings together leading economists in the UK to address the issue of the sustainable use of the natural environment.

This book sheds light on how global warming has caused the ongoing environmental disaster in the Arctic, namely its melting.

The ten years before this book was originally published in 1986 saw major restructuring in the economies of the developed world.

Exploring the theoretical concept of collaborative dynamic capabilities, this book illustrates how service innovation can be achieved in an era of technological convergence.

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing human kind owing to the great uncertainty regarding future impacts, which affect all regions and many ecosystems.

With mega townships as the tool, this book analyses the complexity, scale and the challenges associated with the development paradigm in India from various built environment lenses.

Based in the agrarian world of commercial sesame farming in northern Paraguay, Forecasts tells a story about what happens when global insurance companies promise financial safety nets to local farmers struggling with the effects of climate change.

This book explores the insights that can be gained by looking at the criminal justice system from an economic point of view.

Housing matters to people, be they owner, renter, housing provider, homeless individual, housing professional, or policymaker.

Energy is a key resource for transformational development globally.

This book presents a systematic overview on partition function form games: a game form in cooperative game theory to integrate externalities for various applications.

This is a collection of theoretical papers, including contributions by Partha Dasgupta and three Nobel prize-winning economists: Kenneth Arrow, Amartya Sen, and Joseph Stiglitz.

When United Nations sponsored elections were held in 1993, there were high hopes that Cambodia would finally be able to escape the nightmare of war, the killing fields, famine, and economic turmoil that its people had endured since 1970.

This book examines the organizational consequences of the recent international preoccupation with managing patient safety in the clinic.

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

Mention of the British countryside commonly evokes visions of pastoral contentment; but the nature of rural Britain has changed dramatically since 1945.

The ultimate guide to creating, storing and utilizing lifesaving power in the most critical circumstances.

Do you really think you are getting a good deal when given that free mobile phone for switching service providers, if a multinational retailer undercuts its competitors or by the fact that food is relatively cheaper today in many countries than ever before?

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

​Das deutsche Gesundheitssystem ist ein komplexes Regulierungsgefüge.