Economics of specific sectors

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This book conducts a holistic analysis of climate change perceptions, vulnerabilities, impacts, and adaptation, based on the primary household-data collected from the Chepang community residing in the rural Mid-Hills of Nepal.

'A brilliant critical and fresh look at the public choice school of thought.

This book offers a comprehensive and systematic examination of the issues involved within Ocean Economics.

The most authoritative analysis of the full range of options open for a world climate agreement to succeed the Kyoto Protocol.

In der Ausbildung werden (Zahn-)Medizinerinnen und (Zahn-)Mediziner spärlich mit dem Thema Personalführung bzw.

Extensively revised and updated, this popular text presents an accessible yet rigorous treatment of environmental and natural resources economics, including climate change and the economics of sustainability.

The Causes of Tropical Deforestation (1994) is an analysis of the problem of deforestation, using statistical technique - a form of 'environ-metrics' - to discover the true causes of an issue whose basis is hotly debated, and attributed to causes as varied as poverty, external debt, multinational logging companies, government corruption, the IMF, population growth, and non-sustainable agriculture.

Consumer (co-)ownership in renewable energy (RE) is essential to the overall success of Energy Transition.

The Economic Development of the USSR (1982) examines the economic advances the Soviet Union made as the first major economy to adopt full-scale socialist planning.

Noonomy explores the effect of modern technological shifts on human society.

The informal economy - broadly defined as economic activity that is not subject to government regulation or taxation - sustains a large part of the world's workforce.

The topics addressed in this book are of vital importance to the survival of humankind.

As the threats of food insecurity loom ever larger, the world faces the sad irony of food shortages in the global South alongside a purported 'obesity epidemic' in the global North.

Originally published in 1989, The Geography of Urban-Rural Interaction in Developing Countries addresses the nature and importance of the interaction between 'urban' and 'rural' areas within Third World national territories, providing much-needed comparative, cross-cultural, and cross-national material.

Across European cities the use of urban space is controversial and subject to diverging interests.

The Routledge Handbook of Heterodox Economics presents a comprehensive overview of the latest work on economic theory and policy from a 'pluralistic' heterodox perspective.

Proposes an new strategy for the beyond-GDP community which aims to replace the economic paradigm centred on Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 2030.

The second edition of Regional Economics provides a comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of regional economics.

What can prosperity possibly mean in a world of environmental and social limits?

Existing literature on energy audits consists almost exclusively of practical guides.

How knowing the extreme risks of climate change can help us prepare for an uncertain futureIf you had a 10 percent chance of having a fatal car accident, you'd take necessary precautions.

Through an examination of carbon footprint metaphors, this books demonstrates the ways in which climate change and other ecological issues are culturally and materially constituted through metaphor.

Territories of Poverty challenges the conventional North-South geographies through which poverty scholarship is organized.

This book provides insights into commercial and residential real estate markets in one of the world's fastest growing regions: South Asia.

Muslim minorities in China and India form only a small fraction of their respective populations, yet as they principally live in troubled border states, they are of key strategic importance in the war on terror.

This book conducts a comparative analysis of social and economic changes in the welfare state transformations in China and India, at national and sub-national levels.

This book focuses on various issues of energy, energy efficiency and environmental policy in China.

This book addresses the puzzle, Can David take on Goliath in multilateral economic negotiations, and if so, then under what conditions?

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

Kostenmanagement ist im Gesundheitswesen ein schwieriges Thema.

The new edition of a textbook that combines economic concepts with empirical evidence, updated with material on the Affordable Care Act and other developments.

This book is unique and original, constituting a pioneering study in the use of spatial economics and related analytical approaches to Brazil's Cerrado agricultural development and the formation of agro-industrial value chains.

This book describes the importance of the millennium development goals and gives an explanation of the progress toward the goals.

The price of food commodities - such as wheat, corn and rice - is unstable.

Combating Poverty critically analyses the growing divergence between Quebec and other large Canadian provinces in terms of social and labour market policies and their outcomes over the past several decades.

Originally published in 1986.

The voucher debate has been both intense and ideologically polarizing, in good part because so little is known about how voucher programs operate in practice.

This book takes a compelling approach to describing what is needed to create the kind of future that most people on Earth really want.

Rising fuel prices during recent years and the threat of global warming have reinforced public and scientific interest in the issue of sustainable energy, with the term sustainability understood as having economic, environmental and social dimensions.

Die Tatsache, daß dieses Buch schon bald nach seinem erstmaligen Erscheinen in Neuauflage vorliegt, zeigt, daß der Autor einen wichtigen Bereich der Umweltpolitik beleuchtet.

Why would an authoritarian regime expand social welfare provision in the absence of democratization?

This book examines the implications of The General Theory of Second Best for analyzing the economic efficiency of non-government conduct or government policies in an economically efficient way.

This book investigates the success story of the fast fashion industry-mainly owned by Chinese migrants-in Prato, Italy.

Swanson's book provides a good framework for understanding the extinction process in deeper socio-economic terms, and for evaluating some of the suggestions that have been made to arrest the decline.