Economics of specific sectors

Thirty years ago the Russell-Einstein Manifesto warned humanity that our survival is imperilled by the risk of nuclear war.

This textbook offers a comprehensive analysis of medical decision making under uncertainty by combining Test Information Theory with Expected Utility Theory.

The first fully comparative study of fuel poverty across the EU, this work analyses the relationship between domestic energy efficiency, fuel poverty and health.

Qiao demonstrates how an impersonal and unbounded market can operate without legal protection or enforcement of property and contract rights.

Prefaced by Bjorn Stigson, President of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, this book is one of the few that treats this topic by putting representatives of industry at centre stage.

Important progress has been made in recent years in the valuation of social costs of energy and transport.

As the world reels from the credit crunch and fall into recession of late 2008, the search is on for a better way to do business.

While the development of material civilization and industrialization initiated by the Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth century made possible a more comfortable life for mankind, it caused a concentration of human resources and led to rapid urbanization around the world.

Degrowth Decolonization and Development reveals common underlying cultural roots to the multiple current crises.

Regulatory Choices offers the first comprehensive economic history of energy policy and its consequences for California, where some of the most innovative and far-ranging programs of regulatory reform have originated.

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

Published in 1998.

The 1986 article by Sanford J.

This title offers an in-depth analysis of the psychological causes and consequences of, and proposed interventions for over-eating.

This report was jointly launched by the National Academy of Economic Strategy of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and UN-HABITAT.

This book introduces the Eora, Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) and World Input-Output (WIOD) databases and provides detailed metadata on the data sources, database structures and construction techniques used to build each system.

It is really no longer necessary to stress the importance of availing of sound statistical information on the environment.

Our Plastic Problem and How to Solve It considers plastic''s harms and offers a spectrum of public and private solutions.

The topic of 'stranded assets' created by environment-related risk factors has risen up the agenda dramatically, influencing many pressing topics in relation to global environmental change.

The Social Impact of Oil (1982) examines how the town of Peterhead in the UK, hitherto a remote fishing port, was changed by North Sea oil.

Tina Asdecker führt Berechnungen durch, die zeigen, dass im gesamten Gesundheitswesen eine Quersubventionierung der Privaten Krankenversicherung zulasten der Gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung in Höhe von aktuell rund 2 Mrd.

Carbon pricing is one of the key policy instruments available to help countries reach the goals of the Paris Agreement and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

Every year, the world's governments spend over US $700 billion subsidizing activities that harm the environment.

A unique insider''s account of climate change and the diverse ways in which it is understood.

The year 2007 could perhaps accurately be described as the year when climate change finally received the attention that this challenge deserves globally.

This book presents an analytic history of American energy policy, examining policy failures and how the policy process itself leads to failure.

First Published in 2017.

Providing a fresh look at some of the pressing issues of our world today, this collection focuses on experiential and ritualized coping practices in response to a multitude of environmental challenges-cyclones, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, earthquakes, warfare and displacements of peoples and environmental resource exploitation.

The latest scientific knowledge on climate change indicates that higher greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere through unchecked emissions will provoke severe climate change and ocean acidification.

This book asks the question, how would economics look today and into the future if one started with a blank sheet of paper?

This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the second workshop on Evaluation and Planning held at Centre International de Hautes Etudes Agronomiques Mediterraneennes (CIHEAM) in Valenzano (Bari) in November 1993.

This comprehensive volume contributes to the existing and emerging body of literature on contemporary urbanization and the interactions between cities and the environment.

The first edition of this important work was the winner of the 2002 Publication of Enduring Quality award by the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of energy sectors in emerging African and Latin American nations, providing a one-stop source of information and analysis of energy sectors that differ radically from those of developed countries.

The emergence of sharing mobility is having a profound impact on urban landscapes.

This book presents and critically evaluates the results of a European territorial cooperation project addressing the planning challenge of brownfield transformation in fragile territories.

This book addresses the case for a Sustainable Energy Trade Agreement (SETA) and the move from fossil fuels to renewable energy.

This title was first published in 2001.

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

Report on Social Security for Canada, written in wartime, presented to Canadians a picture of a better life in the postwar world.

Why hope matters as a metric of economic and social well-beingIn a society marked by extreme inequality of income and opportunity, why should economists care about how people feel?

Material flow management gets right to the core of industrial production and its environmental impact.

Since the 1980s, two different paradigms have reshaped industrial societies: the Neoliberal paradigm and a Research and Innovation paradigm.

Anthropos, in the sense of species as well as cultures and ethics, locates humans as part of much larger orders of existence - fundamental when thinking about climate change.

Schnell und bequem auffindbare, wissenschaftlich fundierte, somit verlässliche, neutrale und umfassende Information zu modernen Energietechnologien stellt dieses Handbuch bereit.

Since the 1980's, market-based instruments for environmental policy have become increasingly important.

Nils Petter Gleditsch International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) & Department of Sociology and Political Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trond- heim This book could hardly have happened but for the end of the Cold War.