Economics of specific sectors

Any economics that does not deal forthrightly with economic inequality is no longer suitable for the twenty-first century.

For some, recycling is a big business; for others a moralised way of engaging with the world.

Global warming is an increasing problem, tropical forests are being wiped out and major upper watersheds are being degraded.

Managing the Complexities of Real Estate Development provides a concise summary of the real estate development process, allowing the reader to learn the fundamentals and details of development outside of the sink-or-swim environment of a particular project.

This comprehensive handbook provides a unique overview of the theory, methodologies and best practices in climate change communication from around the world.

The Economics of Urban Diversity explores ethnic and religious minorities in urban economies.

There is not enough water globally for all the things humans need and want water to do for us.

This book provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of the general framework of sustainable development paths in relation to where countries stand at present, by outlining the main challenges they face, and the potential pathways ahead to foster the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Housing, Homelessness, and Social Policy in the Urban North brings together leading scholars on northern urban housing across the Canadian North, Alaska, and Greenland.

This book tackles the challenging issues raised by the growth of large megacities from diverse perspectives and approaches.

How individuals and the government are changing life in China's polluted citiesOver the past thirty years, even as China's economy has grown by leaps and bounds, the environmental quality of its urban centers has precipitously declined due to heavy industrial output and coal consumption.

Provides a rigorous analysis of sustainable development that includes practical, policy-relevant, global case studies, explained concisely and clearly.

The litany of alarming observations about water use and misuse is now familiar-over a billion people without access to safe drinking water; almost every major river dammed and diverted; increasing conflicts over the delivery of water in urban areas; continuing threats to water quality from agricultural inputs and industrial wastes; and the increasing variability of climate, including threats of severe droughts and flooding across locales and regions.

Ivory is big business, and in some parts of Africa elephants have been hunted almost to extinction in the quest for it.

This unique book reveals how Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINs) can be used to achieve resilience to change and external shocks.

This book offers ideas and practices on contemporary design concepts and illustrates them with plans and photographs of outstanding examples.

When the guns are silenced, those who have survived armed conflict need food, water, shelter, the means to earn a living, and the promise of safety and a return to civil order.

This book provides numerous examples that apply the modern theory of bureaucracy developed in Breton and Wintrobe (1982 and 1986) to the Nazi Holocaust.

Development economics is about understanding how and why lives change.

A unique, stunningly illustrated look at the origins, development, and future prospects of citiesMore than half the world's population lives in cities, and that proportion is expected to rise to three-quarters by 2050.

This book, based on extensive international collaborative research, highlights the state-of-the-art design of "e;smart living"e; for metropolises, megacities, and metacities, as well as at the community and neighbourhood level.

In May 2005, the International Max Planck Research School for Maritime Affairs organized an international conference addressing marine pollution.

​Im Rahmen der Studie werden erstmals bestehende und mögliche neue Ansätze zur Quantifizierung der finanzpolitischen Bedeutung des Sports (sportrelevanten Nutzen- und Kostenkategorien der öffentlichen Haushalte) dargestellt und mit Zahlen unterlegt.

This comprehensive handbook represents a definitive state of the current art and science of food waste from multiple perspectives.

This book presents a comprehensive study of the role that the Blue Flag beach program has played around the world, considering economic, social and environmental perspectives.

This book presents a new perspective on the link between economic growth and environmental change.

This book examines the nuances of the relationship between development and environmental conservation policy in India over the last three decades.

Finalist for the 2021 PROSE Award for Environmental Science!

The Quest for Oil (1970) examines all aspects of the oil industry - what oil is, where it is found, how fuels are produced, transported and sold, and the ways in which the fuels are used.

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

Policy analysis is a dynamic process of discovery rather than a passive exercise of memorizing facts and conclusions.

Ecotaxation covers two distinct ideas.

Digitalen Ökosystemen und Plattformstrukturen wird eine bedeutende Entwicklung vorausgesagt.

In the midst of human-induced global climate change, powerful industrialized nations and rapidly industrializing nations are still heavily dependent on fossil fuels.

This book Food in a Planetary Emergency is a timely overview of the current food systems and the required transformations to respond to the challenges of climate change, population pressures, biodiversity loss and use of natural resources, such as soils, water and phosphorus.

Michael Evenari's biography unfolds his exciting, manifold life: his love for botany, the confrontation with political events as a youngster and his thrilling experience of helping in the development of Israel.

Neben grundsätzlichen Aussagen zur Technikfolgenabschätzung und Systemanalyse stellen die Autoren Ergebnisse aus der Forschung über Konzeptionen zur Nachhaltigkeit vor.

The energy reserves of the Caspian Region have been hailed as the new 'Middle East'.

An exploration of the ways in which ancient theories of empire can inform our understanding of present-day international relations, Enduring Empire engages in a serious discussion of empire as it relates to American foreign policy and global politics.

This textbook explains the main economic mechanisms behind energy markets and assesses how governments can implement policies to improve these markets' performance.

The United States is now admitting nearly one million legal immigrants per year, while the flow of illegal aliens into the country continues to increase steadily.

This book provides authoritative and up-to-date research for anyone interested in the study of international environmental politics.

Das Buch verknüpft das Betriebliche Gesundheitsmanagement mit der Digitalisierung von Gesundheitsthemen, was generell neue technische Möglichkeiten bietet.

American food aid to foreigners long has been the most visible-and most popular-means of providing humanitarian aid to millions of hungry people confronted by war, terrorism and natural cataclysms and the resulting threat-often the reality-of famine and death.