Economics of specific sectors

With the ever rising demand for meat around the world, the production of meat has changed dramatically in the past few decades.

Development economics is about understanding how and why lives change.

This book presents an empirical investigation of the efforts that multinational pharmaceutical companies take in order to find a business model that allows for a profitable access to the Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP) markets.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of groundwater uses and environmental issues in the Mekong Delta.

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

The arrival of western science and economic interests to the tropics has dramatically changed the tropical environment and its ecology.

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

This book presents the core elements that underwrite agroecology.

The greatest political debate of our time is about the blind rush towards a single global economy, its consequences for jobs, democracy, human well-being and cultural diversity, and its impact on the natural world that sustains us.

Die Kraft einer Wirtschaftskrise kann auf Generationen hinaus dem Wohlstand einer Gesellschaft schaden und ihre politische und soziale Ordnung verändern.

Argues that the United States will not adequately address climate change until it transforms its fossil fuel energy policy.

The loss of biodiversity is a major environmental problem in nearly every terrestrial ecosystem on Earth.

The prevalence of natural disasters in recent years has highlighted the importance of preparing adequately for disasters and dealing efficiently with their consequences.

This book introduces an indispensable tool: the carbon footprint calculator for urban planning.

Smart Green Cities: is a comprehensive overview of what global cities are doing to become sustainable.

Reissuing works originally published between 1952 and 1999, this set provides a wide spread of scholarship on issues surrounding food provision throughout the world.

A generous endowment of natural resources should favour rapid economic and social development.

Drawing on the work of leading researchers and practitioners from a range of disciplines, including economic geography, economics, economic history, finance, law, and public policy, this edited collection provides a comprehensive assessment of stranded assets and the environment, covering the fundamental issues and debates, including climate change and societal responses to environmental change, as well as its origins and theoretical basis.

This book focuses on the economic, political, and cultural factors that make up India's "e;informal processors,"e; which are the highly networked, multi-generational systems that reuse, repurpose, and otherwise dispose of 80% of India's electronic waste.

This book presents a novel perspective on immobility, a topic often overlooked in urban planning and transport studies.

This book investigates the multifaceted relationships between knowledge structures, technology, geography, and regional science.

This book reviews and analyzes emerging challenges in water policy, governance and institutions in India.

This book offers new perspectives on the economic development of the Middle East and North Africa region.

The Economics of Globally Shared and Public Goods responds to an urgent need to consolidate and refine the economic theories and explanations pertinent to globally shared resources.

This collection of essays brings together discussions arguing that the circular economy must be linked to society and culture in order to create a viable concept for remodelling the economy.

This book demonstrates how mathematical models constructed in system dynamics modelling platforms, such as Vensim, can be used for long-term management of environmental change.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Die räumliche Differenzierung der Industrie und Bevölkerungsagglomeration im Halle-Leipziger Gebiet" verfügbar.

Sustainability is, and continues to grow as, a key issue for organizations: in the board room; with investors, customers and regulators; and from employees whose demands on organizations include improving their social and environmental performance in return for loyalty and commitment.

Originally published in 1964 and revised in 1971.

This book provides guidelines for emergency managers, responders, and health care professionals to establish a mass casualty/mass fatality (MC/MF) management plan.

More than thirty years after the collapse of the USSR, the critique of state socialism is still used to deny alternatives to capitalism, irrespective of global capitalist ecological and social devastation.

Hosting the Olympic Games reveals the true costs involved for the cities that hold these large-scale sporting events.

For many people, the word ';industry' brings to mind images ofsprawling factories belching toxic emissions in a blighted natural landscape.

This book presents the new Precariat – the rapidly growing number of people facing lives of insecurity, on zero hours contracts, moving in and out of jobs that give little meaning to their lives.

The Agricultural Dilemma questions everything we think we know about the current state of agriculture and how to, or perhaps more importantly how not to, feed a world with a growing population.

Die Bediensteten des Öffentlichen Gesundheitsdienstes in Bayern, die

»Hüter der Volksgesundheit«, lernten nach 1945 Demokratie, und zwar im

Dienstalltag: im Innenministerium, in Gesundheitsämtern oder in Krankenhäusern,

beim Verfassen von Gesetzesentwürfen ebenso wie beim Röntgen.

What are the methodologies for assessing and improving governmental policy in light of well-being?

This book shows how promoting clean energy technologies - from solar panels to electric cars - can end human-induced climate change.

This book is a revision of the author's original doctoral thesis on emergency preparedness through community radio in North Indian villages into a widening array of possible reapplications in other community development fields.

Asbestos dust is well-known for causing cancer and other life-threatening illnesses yet still contaminates countless schools, factories and office buildings.

Originally published in 1986, this book takes an inter-disciplinary approach to the options for energy in the future.

This unique collection of essays examines the environmental problems facing contemporary Nigeria.

Originally published in 1989.

The supply of reliable and safe water is a key challenge for developing countries, particularly India.

This book is about joint implementation.