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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.

This book investigates the relationship between universities, real estate markets, and local economic systems in light of contemporary urban regeneration processes and sustainability challenges.

A panoramic account of the urban politics and deep social divisions that gave rise to UberThe first city to fight back against Uber, Washington, D.

This book discusses the nuances of corridor development in India and its implications on land acquisition and displacement.

Cities house the majority of the world's population and are the dynamic centres of 21st century life, at the heart of economic, social and environmental change.

Experiments in geoengineering - intentionally manipulating the Earth's climate to reduce global warming - have become the focus of a vital debate about responsible science and innovation.

This is the first collection focusing on knowledge socialism, a particularly apt term used to describe a Chinese socialist mode of production and socialist approach to development and modernity based around the rise of peer production, new forms of collaboration and collective intelligence.

The Law and Economics of Privacy, Personal Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Incomplete Monitoring presents new findings and perspectives from leading international scholars on several emerging areas issues in legal and economic research.

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This book gathers scientific contributions on comprehensive approaches to personalized medicine.

Emerging Biofuels: Stationary and Mobile Applications presents a comprehensive assessment of supply chains and conversion pathways of the promising biofuels in the 21st century.

This book provides an interdisciplinary account of how technological advances - mainly in the domains of energy and transportation - contribute to the transformation towards a more sustainable economic system.

There are fewer people living in extreme poverty in the world today than 30 years ago.

Why have social spending levels and social policy trajectories diverged so drastically across labour-abundant Middle Eastern and North African regimes?

How efficient is the Chinese healthcare system?

examines principal energy policy decisions and their lingering effects, by recounting the historical context surrounding the interplay of law, markets, and technology.

In this volume, the concept of "e;medical neutrality,"e; which states that medical services should not be interfered with during armed conflicts and other emergencies, is challenged based on the experience and expertise of the authors, who come from diverse military, humanitarian, and academic backgrounds.

Five years after the one of the worst nuclear accidents in history, Fukushima now only occasionally headlines national and international media.

This book presents ways of shaping the built environment sciences and practices for steering the New Urban Agenda in Zimbabwe.

This book responds to a congressional request to evaluated criteria by which land is acquired under the Land and Water Conservation Fund.

This Palgrave Pivot argues that basic income at a decent level is, in fact, affordable.

Many of the environmental and social problems we face today are symptoms of a deeper systemic failing: a dominant cultural paradigm that encourages living in ways that are often directly counter to the realities of a finite planet.

This book provides a detailed and comparative assessment of the humanitarian responses to major disasters in Asia over the past two decades.

This book includes state-of-the-art discussions on various issues and aspects of the implementation, testing, validation, and application of big data in the context of healthcare.

How best to foster agricultural development in the Third World has long been a subject of debate and from a European perspective the persistent failure to design peasant-friendly technology is puzzling.

This book is concerned with the complexities of achieving quality in care transitions.

This edited collection brings together leading theoretical and applied research with the intent to design a sustainable global financial future.

The COVID-19 pandemic revealed that governments can quickly respond to a fiscal crisis without becoming mired in unproductive wrangling.

This comprehensive handbook provides a unique overview of the theory, methodologies and best practices in climate change communication from around the world.

In a world in transition and an era of transformation, Mahtaney calls for reflection and an analysis of a wide canvas of global economic experience.

The main aim of this book is to provide a state of the art of the Levelized Cost of Energy calculation for energy communities from both a theoretical, defining a systematic analysis approach, and a practical point of view, providing results for three representative real case studies.

The events of the last decade have challenged the contemporary neo-classical synthesis in all branches of economics, but particularly public finance.

Der dänische Architekt Jan Gehl, einer der weltweit wohl bekanntesten Stadtplaner, erläutert in seinem Buch Leben zwischen Häusern die fundamentale Bedeutung sensibler Raumplanung für ein gutes Zusammenleben in unseren Städten.

This book investigates the ways in which city regions view themselves as single entities, how they are governed, what is meant by 'governance', why the question of city-regional governance matters, and the extent to which the balance between internal and external factors is important for finding governance solutions.

The development of Nigeria's oil industry is examined comprehensively in this book, originally published in 1984.

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For thousands of years, Ethiopia has depended on its smallholding farmers to provide the bulk of its food needs.

Originally published in 1971, this volume contains papers invited for a conference on economic research relevant to national urban development held in September of the same year.

This book reviews the development of China's social security system from 1949 onwards and analyzes its features in each stage.

"e;Organized"e; and "e;innovation"e; are words rarely heard together.

This book provides a comprehensive guide to leveraging nature-based economic initiatives for sustainable rural development.

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Few people actively engaged in India's water sector would deny that the Indian subcontinent faces serious problems in the sustainable use and management of water resources.

This volume examines minimality in cooperation and shared agency from various angles.

A collection of scholarly accounts and articles written by recognized experts in environmental economics, this book is the first of its kind and as a valuable reference and textual source for graduate students and active researchers.