Economics of specific sectors

This book explores a new model for addressing the central issue of environmental and other collective actions.

The power of the commons as a free, fair system of provisioning and governance beyond capitalism, socialism, and other -isms.

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.

Global production of soybeans and palm oil has increased enormously in the tropics over the last two decades.

This important volume focuses on the sensitive issue of interrelationships between national parks situated near or within urban areas and their urban environment.

In the late 2000s climate action became a defining feature of the international political agenda.

This book discusses sustainable forest management from the perspectives of sociology, anthropology, politics, economics and policy.

This book presents a new economic history of London construction in the early modern period.

This book seeks to fill the information gap on a key emerging real estate market and demystify the perception that the market in Ghana and indeed, across sub-Saharan Africa is opaque.

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

This is the first book that analyzes tobacco control policies in China from the perspectives of economics and health.

This book represents a powerful analysis of the challenges of metropolitan governance in all its messiness and complexity.

This book demonstrates how to successfully manage and lead healthcare institutions by employing the logic of business model innovation to gain competitive advantages.

The book examines how globalised urban labour and property markets are produced by agrarian actors, institutions, spaces and territories.

Any attempts to control the greenhouse effect will involve reducing carbon dioxide emissions and therefore requires energy efficiency.

Spatial Regression Analysis Using Eigenvector Spatial Filtering provides theoretical foundations and guides practical implementation of the Moran eigenvector spatial filtering (MESF) technique.

Dangerous climate change is coming.

This book discusses leafy spices or herbs known as "e;aromatic herbs"e;, which, apart from being used in culinary art for flavoring of foods and beverages, are also known to possess antiseptic, anti-oxidant and other medicinal properties, in addition to many nutraceutical and cosmetic properties.

This guidebook for students offers a survey of comparative politics intended for use in Hong Kong.

Oil is the lifeblood of modern industrial economies.

Originally published in 1973, this book has enduring relevance in the 21st Century.

The Power of Wherepresents the visionary concepts of Jack Dangermond, cofounder of Esri, the worlds leading mapping software company.

This volume explores several aspects of Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum's framework for thinking about individual well-being.

The Measurement of Health and Health Status: Concepts, Methods and Applications from a Multidisciplinary Perspective presents a unifying perspective on how to select the best measurement framework for any situation.

The book contains selected contributions from the 48th Annual Meeting of the EURO Working Group on Operational Research Applied to Health Services (ORAHS 2022) held in Bergamo, Italy, July 2022.

Sao Paulo, by far the most populated state in Brazil, has an economy to rival that of Colombia or Venezuela.

This book provides the most comprehensive survey of mining activity and the principal challenges confronting the resources industry in the Asia-Pacific region today, and presents new theoretical and practical insights into the political and business risks faced by mining companies operating in the region from both academic and corporate perspectives.

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This book discusses the identification of, solutions to, and management of threats to high population coastal cities and their seaports from global warming, climate change and endemic hazards.

Eine moderne Industriegesellschaft ist ohne Transportdienstleistungen und Individualverkehr nicht funktionsfähig.

This book considers the concept of 'value' at the root of our actions and decision-making.

This book shares a narrative inquiry study that explores the voices of Chinese students and unveils how they understand their study of EAP, as part of their HE academic journey in the UK.

Students in Technical and Agricultural faculties spend only a limited amount of time on general economics, environmental economics and resource economics.

As prosperity levels rise, so too does the number of products and services being consumed.

This book reflects current developments in the economics of agrobiodiversity and focuses its attention on the role agrobiodiversity can have for economic development.

This book assesses the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP) and identifies lessons learned for governance and policy through this new and innovative approach to collaborative forest management.

Women as a group have often been divided by a number of intersecting inequalities: class, race, ethnicity, caste.

Mexico is currently facing severe problems with water availability, wastage and contamination.

This volume examines dynamic interactions between the calculative and speculative practices of commerce and the fruitfulness, variability, materiality, liveliness and risks of nature.

While intercity passenger transport counts for about 2% of the total passenger transport volume the share of the total passenger kilometers traveled is estimated more than one third.

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.

This volume collects papers presented at the International 100% Renewable Energy Conferences (IRENEC) from 2011 to 2015.

This book explores how the circular economy influences product design in today's business and society.

Sustainable consumption is a central research topic in academic discourses of sustainable development and global environmental change.

Since the 1990s, city branding has become a key factor in urban development policies.