Economics of specific sectors

This book examines trends and determinants of economic inequality in cities in Latin America, the world's most unequal region.

Corporate Social Responsibility in the Arctic considers the new trends and frontiers of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) studies that are shaping the future of global business strategy and ethics.

The fateful year 2020 brought dramatic challenges to American cities.

During the last few decades, China has accomplished unprecedented economic growth and has emerged as the second largest economy in the world.

The book provides a new conceptualisation of inflation in underdeveloped economies, through Sri Lanka's historical experience.

The UN's Net Zero goal is to limit the rise in mean global temperatures to 1.

This handbook provides the most comprehensive examination of Asian cities-developed and developing, large and small-and their urban development.

This book highlights various challenges and opportunities for water management and cooperation in South Asia.

Now in its third edition, Cost-Benefit Analysis has been updated, offering readers the perfect introduction to project, programme and policy appraisal using basic tools of financial and economic analysis.

A massive phytoplankton bloom, locally termed "e;brown tide"e;, suddenly appeared in Long Island marine bays in 1985, colored the water a dark brown, decimated eelgrass beds and caused catastrophic starvation and recruitment failure of commercially important bay scallop populations.

This book discusses the extent to whcih differences exist in the approach to energy management by different types of firms: large multidivisional firms at corporate headquarters level and division level and independent firms, energy intensive and non-energy intensive firms and growth and non-growth firms.

Der Marktzugang von Medizinprodukten wird zunehmend komplexer.

An authoritative review of the implementation of new crop breeding technologies and their role in feeding an increasing global population.

This book discusses human factors research directed towards realizing and assessing sustainability in the built environment and architecture.

This book gives a selection of contributions from the 6th Social Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA)  Conference in Pescara, Italy.

This book advances our understanding of resource-dependent regions in developed economies in the 21st Century.

Welfare and the Great Recession surveys and analyses welfare consequences in the period following the financial crisis in Europe.

The Dictionary of Sustainability provides clear and accurate definitions of the extensive vocabulary that has developed in this emerging and interdisciplinary field, saving considerable time from searching through the massive quantity of information of differing degrees of quality that is available through the Internet.

Water exploitation has increased notably in the world during the last 250 years since the onset of industrialisation.

Sustainability in Transition: Principles for Developing Solutions offers the first in-depth education-focused treatment of how to address sustainability in a comprehensive manner.

The debate on connections between economic activity and socio-environmental impact has become increasingly relevant.

Examining the interplay between the oil economy and identity politics using the Kurdistan Region of Iraq as a case study, this book tells the untold story of how extractivism in the Kurdish autonomous region is interwoven in a mosaic of territorial disputes, simmering ethnic tensions, dynastic rule, party allegiances, crony patronage, and divergent visions about nature.

Handbook of Thermal Management Systems: e-Mobility and Other Energy Applications is a comprehensive reference on the thermal management of key renewable energy sources and other electronic components.

This book is an in-depth study of the Indo-Pacific region for effective interventions in the megacities system.

When Michael Bloomberg handed over the city to Bill de Blasio, New York and the country were experiencing record levels of income inequality.

The aim of this book is to catalyse global interest in the pursuit of transformational changes in natural resource and environmental management.

With increasing pressure on resources, the looming spectre of climate change and growing anxiety among eaters, ecology and food are at the heart of the political debates surrounding agriculture and diet.

Professor Bob Williams examines the essential elements that give ecosystems their durability.

The Political Ecology of Austerity explores the environmental dimension of austerity that has thus far escaped academic, policy, and media attention.

A fully updated second edition of this popular introduction to applied choice analysis, written for graduate students, researchers, professionals and consultants.

The Oxford Handbook of Economic Inequality presents a new and challenging analysis of economic inequality, focusing primarily on economic inequality in highly developed countries.

Throughout the world, the use of some kind of a formal transportation project evaluation procedure is a requirement.

This book presents the issues surrounding the conservation of wild species and ecosystems used by people.

Environment and sustainable development challenges are a matter of global concern.

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

In recent decades, policymakers all over the world have sought to strengthen the meaning and effect of public, non-medical healthcare.

Die Erderwärmung ist Fakt, das Klima wird bedrohlich; ungebremst bewegen sich die Umweltdaten in die falsche, unheilvolle Richtung.

This book compiles examples of the most widely used tools  in agricultural economics that have been developed and used to analyze the impact of global change in agricultural activity.

Instruments of Change examines the use of incentive systems and improved institutional arrangements to protect the environment and conserve natural resources, as a means towards sustainable development.

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

Originally published in 1979.

This textbook provides a broad introduction to the relationship between climate change, economics, and climate policy for young readers and future generations.

This book describes official statistics as a tool to hold up a mirror to society - but also as an instrument for those who can manipulate this mirror.

Societies around the world face an increasingly uncertain future as social and ecological changes create pressure on resource governance, and this uncertainty calls for new models that illuminate the intersections of civil society, public sector, and private sector resource management.

This book envisages a different form of our economies where care work and care-full relationships are central to social and cultural life.