Economics of specific sectors

Much popular belief--and public policy--rests on the idea that those born into poverty have it in their power to escape.

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

Natural Resource Economics: The Essentials offers a policy-oriented approach to the increasingly influential field of natural resource economics that is based upon a solid foundation of economic theory and empirical research.

The Sunday Times bestseller *Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize*A New Statesman and Spectator Book of the Year'This book calls for nothing less than a revolution in the future of food' Kate RaworthFrom the bestselling author of Feral, a breathtaking first glimpse of a new future for food and for humanityFarming is the world's greatest cause of environmental destruction - and the one we are least prepared to talk about.

In his landmark 1942 report on social insurance Sir William Beveridge talked about the 'five giants on the road to reconstruction' -- the giants of Want, Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness.

The catalyst for this study was the Fukushima-Daiichi major nuclear accident of 11 March 2011.

Governing Arctic Seas introduces the concept of ecopolitical regions, using in-depth analyses of the Bering Strait and Barents Sea Regions to demonstrate how integrating the natural sciences, social sciences and Indigenous knowledge can reveal patterns, trends and processes as the basis for informed decisionmaking.

Originally published in 1979.

In recent decades, the intensification of unpredictable events including the Covid-19 outbreak, Brexit, trade warfare, religion-inspired terrorism and civil wars, and climate change has resulted in serious loss of human lives and property, a decrease in biodiversity and natural hazards (with long-term negative impacts on environment), and impeded social and economic development.

This volume is the result of the International IDNDR-Conference on Early Warning Systems for the Reduction of Natural Disasters, held at the Geo- ForschungsZentrum in Potsdam, Germany from 7-11 September 1998.

This volume demonstrates advanced strategies in biomedical sciences and healthcare focused on suboptimal health conditions in the framework of Predictive, Preventive and Personalised Medicine (3PM/PPPM).

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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.

This book proposes that community development has been increasingly influenced and co-opted by a modernist, soulless, rational philosophy - reducing it to a shallow technique for 'solving community problems'.

Geltender ökonomischer Logik folgend, schreitet die weltweite Übernutzung der nat- lichen Umwelt mit großen Schritten voran.

Night is a foundational element of human and animal life on earth, but its interaction with the social world has undergone significant transformations during the era of globalization.

The 'neoliberal' economic policy of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's AKP Party, which has delivered extraordinary growth in Turkish GDP over the last decade, has been one of the foundations of the party's popular appeal.

During recent years, there has been a growing awareness that a better understanding of human activities and the behavioural components of environmental problems is needed.

USING DISCRETE CHOICE EXPERIMENTS TO VALUE HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the development and application of discrete choice experiments (DCEs) within health economics.

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

This book focuses on the economic aspects of cloud computing, a critical ICT infrastructure in our digital age.

This proceedings volume examines individual city transports, transport companies and entire transport systems.

Bringing together diverse approaches and case studies of international health worker migration, Global Migration, Gender, and Health Professional Credentials critically reimagines how we conceptualize the transfer of value embodied in internationally educated health professionals (IEHPs).

The book creates an augmented knowledge about human security beyond the warfare concept in the Arctic.

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

This book provides a critical assessment of the contemporary global food system in light of the heightening food crisis, as evidence of its failure to achieve food security for the world's population.

In light of the Covid 19 pandemic and its impact on healthcare systems, this book examines health care innovations and service management models and discusses significant reforms and organizational and managerial changes in the healthcare systems of countries in the Balkans and Eastern Europe.

This book builds on a decade-long experience with mechanisms provided by the Kyoto Protocol and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.

The book examines problems associated with green growth and sustainable development on the basis of recent contributions in economics, natural sciences and applied mathematics, especially optimal control theory.

Childhood adversity that is severe enough to be harmful throughout life is one of the biggest public health issues of our time, yet health care systems struggle to even acknowledge the problem.

The book critically reflects on some of the most important novelties and experimentations in the context of the European Union's renewed urban and regional policy in the last programming period, 2014-2020.

Pressures for transformational change have become a regular feature of most fields of human endeavour.

This book is a comprehensive and analytical perspective on the future of electricity demand in a low-carbon world.

A growing number of GHG emissions trading schemes are being implemented at regional or national levels.

Privatizing public resources by creating stronger property rights, including so-called rights to pollute, is an increasingly popular environmental policy option.

This book examines macroeconomic theory from an analytical framework provided by theories of complex systems, in contrast to conventional theories founded on aggregation.

Umweltökonomik bedeutet, nach Mitteln zur möglichst effizienten Bereitstellung von Umweltgütern wie etwa sauberes Wasser und Klimaschutz zu suchen.

Green Marketing examines the concept of 'Green Marketing' using examples from Turkey and the rest of the world.

This book discusses the nuances of corridor development in India and its implications on land acquisition and displacement.

After years of official disrepute, industrial policy (IP) is back in vogue at regional, national and international levels driven by concerns over competitiveness, globalisation, de-industrialisation, unemployment and the comparatively slow growth of the EU economy especially in this post-recession phase.

Environmental asset classes are not a hope for tomorrow but a reality today.

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

An evidence-based analysis of the opportunities and challenges of moving towards more person-centred health systems.

Originally published in 1996, Urban Land and Property Markets describes the intricacies of the Italian urban planning system, and the interconnections between the property sector, the national economy, and recent historical developments, including the new challenges facing Italy after the early 1990s collapse of the party system.

Scientists directly involved in studying the Exxon Valdez spill provide a comprehensive synthesis of scientific information on long-term spill effects.