Economics of specific sectors

How can we design circular business models?

As malaria and other tropical diseases continue their resurgence, questions about the potential impacts of environmental and demographic factors are becoming more critical.

This volume addresses different issues related to green innovation procurement as well as exploring the challenges involved in public procurement.

Circular Economy in the European Union: Organisational Practice and Future Directions in Germany, Poland and Spain presents the EU's journey towards a circular economy (CE), identifying significant organisational practices in this gradually adopted field among member countries.

This Brief proposes a new theory of public economics which deemphasizes reliance on the free market and affirms the importance of public goods and services within the context of the democratic process and constitutional governance.

Geltender ökonomischer Logik folgend, schreitet die weltweite Übernutzung der nat- lichen Umwelt mit großen Schritten voran.

Originally published in 1979, this book discusses the model developed to deal with air pollution from coal fired power plants, but it broadly also illustrates how available scientific information can be organized to improve our understanding of pollution control.

This book deals with the water policy and management in Canada.

This book looks afresh, from a philosophical perspective, on the role economic theory plays in present-day ecological policy.

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Ocean and coastal management regimes are increasingly subject to competing demands from stakeholders.

First Published in 2011.

Appointment Planning in Outpatient Clinics and Diagnostic Facilities provides a concise overview of the medical and mathematical aspects of appointment planning in healthcare.

Biogeochemistry of Marine Dissolved Organic Matter, 3rd edition is the most up-to-date revision of the fundamental reference for the biogeochemistry of marine dissolved organic matter.

Originally published in 1991, this study uses the 1983 outbreak of Giardiasis in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania as a case study to explore the social costs of waterborne illnesses to a community.

According to many scientists, climate change is a growing threat to life as we know it, requiring a large-scale, immediate response.

First published in 1989, The Undeserving Poor was a critically acclaimed and enormously influential account of America's enduring debate about poverty.

This book, based on extensive international collaborative research, highlights the state-of-the-art design of smart living for metropolises, megacities, and metacities, as well as at the community and neighbourhood level.

Originally published in 1983.

Southern Africa's maritime interests are considerable: its oceans and ports are essential to the wealth of the region, are crucial for trade and are an important source of employment, food and energy.

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.

In the midst of human-induced global climate change, powerful industrialized nations and rapidly industrializing nations are still heavily dependent on fossil fuels.

This Handbook gives a comprehensive, international and cutting-edge overview of Sustainable Development.

John Kenneth Galbraith has long been at the center of American economics, in key positions of responsibility during the New Deal, World War II, and since, guiding policy and debate.

This volume includes a selection of papers presented at the conference "e;Susta- able Resource Use and Economic Dynamics"e; (SURED), held on Monte Verita ` in Ascona, Switzerland, in June 2004.

Increase in life expectancy is arguably the most remarkable by-product of modern economic growth.

In a globalizing, knowledge-based economy, innovation and creative capacity lead to economic prosperity.

Plenty has been written on the competitiveness of megacities, capital cities, and regional hubs.

This book will help decision makers model nature-based solutions to the complex problem of sustainable development, locally and globally.

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

The bright future of green IoT will change our tomorrow environment to become healthier and green, with very high quality of service that is socially, environmentally, and economically sustainable.

This book examines both the need for sustainable economics and the financial practices that will underpin it.

The constant assault of natural forces make fragile barrier islands some of the most rapidly changing locations in the world, but human activities have had enormous impact on these islands as well.

This timely volume explores the multiple domains where Behavior Analysts can provide meaningful assessment and interventions.

The global health community is broadly in agreement that achievement of the health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) hinges upon both an escalation of the financial resources dedicated to primary health care (PHC) and a more effective use of those resources: more money, better spent.

This book examines contemporary policy debates from opposing perspectives.

Water use and conservation in the American West have long been shaped by a host of geographic, environmental, political and economic factors.

Environmental and Natural Resource Economics is one of the most widely used textbooks for environmental economics and natural resource economics courses, offering a policy-oriented approach and introducing economic theory and empirical work from the field.

Water infrastructure is an essential element in water management.

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Climate change is real and it is man-made.

Climate Crisis Economics: A Race of Tipping Points draws on economics, political economy, scientific literature, and data to gauge the extent to which our various communities - political, economic, and business - are making the essential leap to a new narrative and policy approach that will accelerate us towards the necessary transition to a decarbonised economy and sustainable future.

Thousands of surveys on rural livelihoods in developing countries are being done every year.

In this volume, we examine the challenges and opportunities created by global migration at the start of the 21st century.

First published in 1995.

Das vorliegende Handbuch bietet einen umfassenden systematischen Überblick über das Themenfeld Lokale Ökonomie in Bezug auf Konzepte, Quartierskontexte und Interventionen.