Economics of specific sectors

This book is the revised version of a doctoral thesis written at the Graduiertenkolleg Law and Economics at Hamburg University.

The Soviet Union Looks Ahead (1930) is the official statement of the five-year economic plan put forward by the Soviet Union, a plan involving the radical reconstruction of the entire production system of Russia.

This volume proposes a reconsideration of ecological and environmental aspects of the work and ideas of various heterodox authors and traditions in the history of economic thought, including the field of economic development.

This book offers an elaborate and empirical look at service quality of hospitals in the emerging market of India.

Although there have been considerable technological advances over the past decade, particularly in terms of mobile applications, much remains unknown about their effect on societal progress.

This book first provides a comprehensive guideline for future disaster-resistant city planning in large cities in disaster-prone countries such as Japan.

First Published in 2011.

This edited collection demonstrates how discourses and practices associated with marketisation, differentiation and equality are manifested in UK higher education today.

This book sheds light on environmental, social and governance (ESG) policy principles, practice and the implications of integrating ESG factors into business operations, investment strategies and corporate governance frameworks, across both developed and developing countries (Europe, Asia and the US).

Forestry has long been in a rather favourable position in offering a valuable raw material source in high demand.

The book, a joint work of the African Development Bank and the African Union, presents a comprehensive analysis of the oil and gas resources in Africa.

This book offers an in-depth analysis of social welfare system in a rentier state, Qatar, tracing its evolution and institutional development.

This book investigates the current status and future prospects of energy relationships in the Euro-Mediterranean region.

This book provides the first systematic critique of the concept of climate change adaptation within the field of international development.

This book investigates the current status and future prospects of energy relationships in the Euro-Mediterranean region.

The climate problem is getting worse, but the solutions are getting better.

This book offers an elaborate and empirical look at service quality of hospitals in the emerging market of India.

This book collects the best papers presented at a recent conference organized by SIEV (Italian Society of Appraisal and Valuation) to promote the interaction between Appraisal and Valuation and other social sciences to study the effects of migration on value and social, spatial and economic systems in a multicultural city.

Enterprises in rural regions must now act in a globalized world and face global challenges, such as climate change, resource scarcities and social inequalities or the sustainability preferences of consumers.

This book demonstrates to the world by a series of replicable case studies, how the Indo-Pacific developmental initiatives of QUAD, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Canada, the European Union, Japan, Australia, and others can be implemented using the design of "e;Core Digital Economic Communities"e; within the 21 megacities that form Indo pacific megacity system and outside with independent country strategies to engage with these megacity systems where "e;Peripheral Digital Economic Communities"e; are located.

Despite increasing public awareness of climate change, our behaviours relating to consumption and energy use remain largely unchanged.

This book showcases the discussion about megaprojects carried out at the MeRIT (Megaproject Research Interdisciplinary Team) workshop 2023: the crisis, discontinuity, rising prices, and supply chains disruption force radical reflection for those involved in megaprojects.

This book, originally published in 1978 concentrates on the structure and growth of the North Sea oil industry in Scotland.

Averting Climate Catastrophe Together addresses the necessity of meeting the Paris Agreement temperature target and explores what framework could enable climate action in an effective, efficient and equitable manner that is consistent with that goal.

This book uses economic and policy approaches to highlight sustainability, environmental, and social aspects of the circular economy.

This book places islanders' struggles and knowledge at the forefront of island studies.

The complexity of issues requiring rational decision making grows and thus such decisions are becoming more and more difficult, despite advances in methodology and tools for decision support and in other areas of research.

The overarching contribution of this book is a review and assessment of the current and future impacts of globalization on the world's forests.

This volume explores interactions between academia and different societal stakeholders with a focus on sustainability.

La gestión de inventarios es un proceso clave en los resultados de una empresa.

For thousands of years, Ethiopia has depended on its smallholding farmers to provide the bulk of its food needs.

Regulations to promote health and safety may be costly relative to the expected health and safety benefits, and may actually have negative effects on health and safety.

This edited volume focuses on the historical role of the OECD (The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) in shaping global education policy.

Why, despite vast resources being expended on health and health care, is there still so much ill health and premature death?

In recent years, unchecked growth has brought us to the brink of economic and environmental collapse.

This book interprets and explains contemporary population issues from historical and cultural perspectives.

This volume examines the impact of wealth on quality of life and subjective well-being (SWB).

Governments around the world are struggling to meet their commitments to achieve targets relating to reductions in greenhouse gases.

The healthcare system is experiencing unprecedented challenges and opportunities that will revolutionize the sector.

'The Jevons Paradox', which was first expressed in 1865 by William Stanley Jevons in relation to use of coal, states that an increase in efficiency in using a resource leads to increased use of that resource rather than to a reduction.

This book is a social-ecological system description and feedback analysis of the Lake Tana Basin, the headwater catchment of the Upper Blue Nile River.

Responsible water management and circular economy aims to establish a common understanding of circular economy principles and resilience in the water sector and to support countries in the implementing those principles.

The British Economy After Oil (1988) examines the future paths for the British economy as North Sea oil runs out.

Nursing Work has been transformed by political economy and women's struggle.

Sustaining and strengthening local livelihoods is one of the most fundamental challenges faced by post-conflict countries.

We all know that money can't buy you love.

The rise of emerging economies represents a challenge to traditional global power balances and raises the question of how we can combine sustainability with continued economic growth.