Economics of specific sectors

The blueprint for an inspiring regenerative economy that avoids collapse and works for people and the planet.

This edited collection offers fresh perspectives on sustainable development and social impact using a circular economy framework.

This book highlights the latest research on waste processing technologies, particularly for domestic, agricultural, and petroleum based pollutants, intended to achieve waste valorisation.

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

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

Der Gesundheitsmarkt entwickelt sich immer schneller und dynamischer.

Despite its high cost, the US healthcare system produces relatively short life spans, and is wasteful, inefficient and has serious safety and quality issues.

Der Sammelband setzt den Schwerpunkt auf wichtige Teilaspekte zum Thema Management von Gesundheitsregionen.

This book provides an overview of climate change in India using river basin data and analytical and econometric methods.

The outsourcing of clinical trials to Latin America by the transnational innovative pharmaceutical industry began about twenty years ago.

This book provides a comprehensive overview on micromobility, which is a mode of transportation that has become particularly popular among young people in recent years, due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and supports public transport for short distances.

This title was first published in 2003.

This book focuses on market law and policy in sub-Saharan Africa, showing how markets can be harnessed by poorer and developing economies to help make the markets work for them: to help them integrate into the world economy and provide a better standard of living for their people while preserving their values of inclusive development.

Leading experts provide the first comprehensive account of transnational efforts to respond to climate change, for researchers, graduate students and policy makers.

Mid-Latitude Slope Deposits (Cover Beds), Second Edition focuses on widespread deposits and discusses their properties, genesis and age in subdued mountains of Central Europe, where to date most research on the matter has been conducted.

Offers a multidisciplinary edited volume on policy dimensions of climate change for the world''s oceans, for researchers, policymakers and activists.

Technological change in healthcare has led to huge improvements in health services and the health status of populations.

Ecosystem services are the resources and processes supplied by natural ecosystems which benefit humankind (for example, pollination of crops by insects, or water filtration by wetlands).

Balanced factual and conceptual analysis of the political and economic factors that shape the United States'' responses to climate change.

The Covid-19 pandemic has tragically exposed how today's welfare state cannot properly protect its citizens.

In 1543, Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus challenged the view that the sun revolved around the earth, arguing instead that the earth revolved around the sun.

Reviews the entrepreneurial, firm-specific and external environment-specific aspects that influence the key lifecycle stages of high-tech start-ups.

Energy from wave and tidal power is a key component of current policies for renewable sources of energy.

Urban Economy: Real Estate Economics and Public Policy analyses urban economic change and public policy in a more practical way than a typical urban economics book.

As global environmental challenges mount, this book offers a policy blueprint for building a safer, sustainable and more inclusive world.

This is a practical book with clear descriptions of the most commonly used nonmarket methods.

The Life Science industry has been subject to a digital revolution upending all facets of the value chain with data-driven approaches like Gene Therapy, Personalized Medicine, Advanced Cell and Tissue Engineering, Industry 4.

Nanak Kakwani and Hyun Hwa Son make use of social welfare functions to derive indicators of development relevant to specific social objectives, such as poverty- and inequality-reduction.

Green Chemistry Approaches to Environmental Sustainability: Status, Challenges and Prospective provides a comprehensive and complete overview of the emerging discipline of green chemistry and fundamental chemical principles.

Reconciling wealth creation and environmental care is one of the key challenges in the pursuit of sustainable development.

This book addresses current practices related to sustainable development, its challenges and the future.

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

Umweltschutzziele wie die Bewahrung der Schöpfung werden selbst in hierarchisch organisierten Gemeinschaften wie katholischen Orden auf unterschiedlichste Weise interpretiert, bewertet und verhandelt.

The global financial crisis of 2007-8 did not offer the political and economic opportunities to the left that many thought it would.

The latest scientific knowledge on climate change indicates that higher greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere through unchecked emissions will provoke severe climate change and ocean acidification.

The author explores the fraught politics of energy transitions in an age of climate change.

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the role of fossil-based economies in the global energy transition toward sustainability.

This book compares urban finances in cities located in two different South Asian countries and assesses their fiscal health.

The integration of renewable energy resources into the electricity grid presents an important challenge.

First Published in 2017.

There is a large shortage of affordable housing across Europe.

The emergence of sharing mobility is having a profound impact on urban landscapes.

This book documents the experiences, development, and prospects of the construction industry in numerous developing countries.

As China, India, and other industrializing giants grow, they are confronted with an inconvenient truth: They cannot rely on the conventions of capitalism as we know them today.