Economics of specific sectors

This book is dedicated to population health management and how it can be used to improve the health care and outcomes for patients with poly chronic conditions.

Using the water footprint concept, this impactful book aids our understanding of how we can reduce water consumption and pollution to sustainable levels.

Originally published in 1992.

This book describes the latest microeconomic concepts and operations research (OR) techniques needed to comprehend the design and operation of power markets, as well as the actions of their agents: producers, consumers, operators, and regulators.

This text addresses the key issue of informal payments, or 'red packets', in the Chinese Healthcare system.

The UN-supported Principles for Responsible Investment initiative has led to around a third of the world's financial assets being managed with a commitment to invest in a way that considers environmental, social or governance (ESG) criteria.

Social Economics and the Solidarity City explores the impact and potential of the social economy as a site of urban struggle, political mobilization and community organization.

It's all but certain that the next fifty years will bring enormous, not to say cataclysmic, disruptions to our present way of life.

Recent rapid housing market expansion in China is presenting new challenges for policy makers, planners, business people, and citizens.

The book reveals the changing dynamics of the helium industry on both the supply-side and the demand-side.

Executive education is a billion dollar industry that has the potential to transform individual and organizational performance, but in too many cases the decision whether or not to lavish it upon any given manager comes down to whether the fear that they will leave if you don't spend money on them is greater than the fear that they will leave if you do.

Water pollution control has been a top environmental policy priority of the world's most developed countries for decades, and the focus of significant regulation and public and private spending.

This book focuses on the behavioral interactions among possible stakeholders in carbon labeling practice, brings the attentions of stakeholders' interests to explore the opportunities, and challenges related to carbon labeling practice, thus to provide insight into low-carbon consumption and production.

First published in 1979, Urban Poverty in Britain 1830-1914 examines the plight of the poor in towns as a direct result of industrialization.

The first detailed description and analysis of the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme.

This Handbook offers an up-to-date collection of research on agricultural economics.

Economists have proposed a large variety of models of the oil market and this survey integrates them in a coherent framework.

The Disintegration of the Soviet Economic System (1992) examines in detail the collapse of the Soviet economic system, and is set in its political context, both international and domestic.

Power and social inequality shape patterns of land use and resource management.

This book argues for a broader approach to sustainable growth in Small Island Developing States (SIDS).

This text addresses the key issue of informal payments, or 'red packets', in the Chinese Healthcare system.

Avoided deforestation can be characterized as the use of financial incentives to reduce rates of deforestation and forest degradation, with much of the focus on forests in tropical countries.

The kingdom of Saudi Arabia is at a crossroads economically, and faces the challenge of a weakening economy that could implode before 2030, the year set as a timetable by the kingdom in its Vision 2030.

How to leverage existing resources to meet the current and future needs of citiesCrumbling streets and bridges.

In the complex landscapes of multiple global crises, the book unfolds as a panoramic journey through the intricate pathways of women and power, weaving a tapestry that transcends crises and ushers in a transformative vision of a just world.

Die Chefsache-Reihe von Peter Buchenau führt innovative Autoren verschiedenster Branchen und Denkansätze zusammen und beschäftigt sich mit Themen rund um Gesundheit, Prävention, Betriebskita, Kopf, Social Media Marketing, Leisure Sickness, Männer oder Frauen.

This book illustrates an alternative approach to 'state of sustainability' reporting by presenting cross-sectoral and multi-disciplinary discussions on sustainability issues in the context of a developing country, Botswana.

The Making of Low Carbon Economies looks at how more than two decades of sustained effort at climate change mitigation has resulted in a variety of new practices, rules and ways of doing things: a period of active construction of low carbon economies.

The European Union (EU) has reached crisis point.

This volume examines the impact of wealth on quality of life and subjective well-being (SWB).

Infrastructure resources are the subject of many contentious public policy debates, including what to do about crumbling roads and bridges, whether and how to protect our natural environment, energy policy, even patent law reform, universal health care, network neutrality regulation and the future of the Internet.

Why is Prosecco so popular?

This book presents recent work on healthcare management and engineering using artificial intelligence and data mining techniques.

This book explores the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and sustainability in healthcare, focusing on how AI technologies are transforming medical practices while promoting environmentally responsible operations.

Organisationen sind das Zentrum unserer Gesellschaft.

Boycotting tropical timber reduces its economic value and provides an incentive to burn down forests, making them available for subsequent agricultural use or livestock farming.

Elinor Ostrom's Nobel Prize-winning work on common pool property rights has implications for some of the most pressing sustainability issues of the twenty-first century - from tackling climate change to maintaining cyberspace.

In den letzten Jahrzehnten hat die Debatte um einen gerechteren Zugang zu höherer Bildung zunehmend Beachtung erfahren.

The book explores how mentoring, theoretical background of mentoring and how mentoring is used by nurses in all arenas where they work in health care, education, research, policy, politics, and academia in supporting nurses with their professional and career development.

Originally published in 1994, The Economics of the Tropical Timber Trade provides a detailed analysis of the economic linkages between the trade and forest degradation.

Drawing on political economy and economic pluralism, this book explores issues in sustainable economic development from a macro perspective.

This book presents economic policies to combat the challenges posed by financial crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the climate crisis.