Economics of specific sectors

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.

This book examines the unexpected convergence between the higher education systems of India and France.

This book evaluates why cities choose to bid for the Olympics, why Olympic bids fail, and whether cities can benefit from failed bids.

The ubiquity of the commitment to economic growth, which Purdey refers to as the growth paradigm, is extraordinary.

This book explores the universal and highly topical issues of ageing and retirement.

There are few areas of economic policy-making in which the returns to good decisions are so high-and the punishment of bad decisions so cruel-as in the management of natural resource wealth.

With the rise of wealth inequalities, our cities are changing dramatically.

This book describes the changing landscape of European forest ownership and explores the impact a new, often urban, generation of forest owners may have on the future of one of our most basic resources - forests.

In this book Professors Pablo Martinez de Anguita and John E.

How America's high standard of living came to be and why future growth is under threatIn the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable.

A political history of environmental policy and regulation in California, from the Gold Rush to the presentOver the course of its 150-year history, California has successfully protected its scenic wilderness areas, restricted coastal oil drilling, regulated automobile emissions, preserved coastal access, improved energy efficiency, and, most recently, addressed global climate change.

The economy is so powerful in determining the results of U.

The introduction of Agenda 2030 and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has traced a path for private and public entities interested in pursuing sustainable development.

Federal Facility Environmental Management Systems explains how, why, and when federal agencies need to establish compliant EMSs in accordance with the April 21, 2000, Executive Order.

In an effort to integrate the thought processes of prominent scholars in the field of Knowledge Management (KM), editors I V Malhan and Shivarama Rao K have selected contributions from these scholars and encapsulated them in a single volume.

This anthology of significant writings by eminent economists is, in part, a critique of the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates, which was very successful at the time it was instituted but which, because of its rigidity, failed in the end to address the economic problems of the post-war era.

Today, interest in monetary history has been revived.

Sustainability at Work is a compelling guide for anyone who seeks both a successful career and a career that makes a positive difference in society.

An economist examines three modern forces that have redefined what money means, who controls it, and what the future of finance might look like.

This book comprises the select proceedings of the 3rd Construction Management Workshop  (CMW 24), New Frontiers of Construction Management, held in Ravenna, Italy on November 7-8, 2024.

This book offers a comprehensive review of life cycle assessment (LCA), circular economy (CE), and sustainable development, exploring their achievements and progress across the world.

This book offers a comprehensive review of life cycle assessment (LCA), circular economy (CE), and sustainable development, exploring their achievements and progress across the world.

This volume explores several aspects of Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum's framework for thinking about individual well-being.

Poverty as Subsistence explores the "e;propertizing"e; land reform policy that the World Bank advocated throughout the transitioning countries of Eurasia, expecting poverty reduction to result from distributing property titles over agricultural land to local (rural) populations.

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

"e;An interesting take on some factors that facilitate the development and bursting of bubbles in technology industries.

Sao Paulo, by far the most populated state in Brazil, has an economy to rival that of Colombia or Venezuela.

Simplify the enormous array of U.

Full text of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

Tar Sands critically examines the frenzied development in the Canadian tar sands and the far-reaching implications for all of North America.

How only violence and catastrophes have consistently reduced inequality throughout world historyAre mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality?

The first edition of Japanese Financial Markets established itself as a standard work on one of the most important financial centres in the world.

Measurements of individual benefits of different health and medical interventions are fundamental for prioritizing among different alternative uses of resources in the healthcare sector.

Once held up as a 'poster child' for untrammeled capitalist globalisation, the Irish Republic has more recently come to represent a cautionary tale for those tempted to tread the same neoliberal path.

Medical technology broadly defined to include all aspects of the process of treating disease (e.

This volume consists of three sections connected by the elucidation of differences in perspective between people and polities.

This multidisciplinary approach to the Western Balkans addresses topics from responsible business and ethics, innovation, corporate social responsibility, and new technology to human resources management.

Offers a new approach to the study of labor on the subcontinent and globally, questioning the relevance of the predominant wage labor paradigm for Africa and the Global South.

Public understanding of, and outcry over, the dire state of the climate and environment is greater than ever before.

Sustainable capitalism is more than a response to the environmental crisis.

Geoethics for the Future: Facing Global Challenges offers the latest points of view on highly topical issues in geosciences, including climate change, sustainable development, and energy transition, enabling readers to acquire multifaceted knowledge of topics of global relevance and highlighting the importance of the issues affecting geosciences in the 21st Century.

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

The challenges related to disaster risk management (DRM) in the agricultural sector are now widely linked to sustainable environment.

This book traces the foundations for sustainable entrepreneurship, beginning with sustainability, ecopreneurship, and social entrepreneurship.

This book provides a framework for making administration effective and improving mitigation and rehabilitation measures with a view to ensuring a safer life for citizens.

This book examines urbanization and migration processes in South Asia.

This book discusses urban planning and regional development practices in the twentieth century, and ways in which they are currently being transformed.

Economic archaeology and ancient economic history have boomed the past decades.

This book provides an incisive and economic assessment of the global warming adaptation policy and programs carved out by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Green Climate Fund (GCF), by relying on the four scientific traditions that have been advanced on the economics of adaptation to climate change in agricultural and natural resource enterprises.