Economics of specific sectors

The book presents academic research on urbanization, urban poverty and slum development initiatives in South Asia, in general, and Bangladesh, in particular, in the light of global slum upgrading initiatives.

This book sets out to reframe the theory of real options so that it can be used to support environmental investments for climate change adaptation and mitigation.

This book applies the contents of a working economist's tool-kit to explain, clearly and intuitively, when and why over the course of four centuries individuals, families, and enterprises decided to locate in or around the lower Hudson River Valley.

This book brings together scholars from the fields of politics, philosophy, sociology, anthropology and economics, to explore pathways towards implementing a Basic Income in Australia.

This Handbook responds to the needs and aspirations of current and future generations of development economists by providing critical reference material alongside or in relation to mainstream propositions.

Economics is a science that can contribute substantial powerful and fresh insights!

This collection of essays represents responses by over eighty scholars to an unusual request: give your high level assessment of the field of economic design, as broadly construed.

This book explores how Japanese cities have transformed since the 1950s by describing housing and urban planning policies, urbanization processes, and maps with GIS analysis.

This book is the third installment in a series of volumes looking at episodes in American economic history from a public choice perspective.

This book, the first comprehensive overview of housing policy in Australia in 25 years, investigates the many dimensions of housing affordability and government actions that affect affordability outcomes.

Of all forms of alternative medicine, chiropractic is the one that is most generally accepted.

The book illustrates the use of spatial econometric models to analyze the economic resilience of regions to climate-related shocks.

This text addresses the key issue of informal payments, or 'red packets', in the Chinese Healthcare system.

This volume presents an economic framework for the analysis of resilience in relation to societal, environmental, and personal security perspectives.

Sustainable and Environmentally Friendly Dairy Farms presents an innovative environmental proposal.

An authoritative and comprehensive volume of knowledge and green technologies wholly focused on the future of the bioeconomy.

This is the Proceedings of the International Workshop Heritagebot 2017 that was held in Cassino, Italy in September 2017.

Focused on the logistics and transportation operations within a supply chain, this book brings together the latest models, algorithms, and optimization possibilities.

This book deals with 20 voting procedures used or proposed for use in elections resulting in the choice of a single winner.

Existing literature on energy audits consists almost exclusively of practical guides.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the adoption of small-scale residential solar photovoltaic systems (RSPSs) in Saudi Arabia.

This study seeks to evaluate the impact of organizational ethical climate on the organizational commitment and job performance of Japanese-funded manufacturing enterprises (JFMEs) in China using empirical analysis and discussion, and includes a review of related research into economic ethics as well as a quantitative analysis of the various types of organizational ethical climates typically found in JFMEs operating in China.

Microeconomic Modeling in Urban Science proposes an interdisciplinary framework for the analysis of urban systems.

Renewable Energy Finance: Theory and Practice integrates the special characteristics of renewable energy with key elements of project finance.

This book explores the microstructure of carbon markets and the pricing of carbon financial instruments generally.

This book presents a panoramic view of the implications from Richard Easterlin's groundbreaking work on happiness and economics.

The promise and prospects for mobile technologies in healthcare service delivery-particularly as experienced by patients and other users-are the focus of this forward-looking volume.

This unique book reveals how Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINs) can be used to achieve resilience to change and external shocks.

This book presents a selection of contributions on the timely topic of structural reforms in Western economies, written by experts from central banks, the International Monetary Fund, and leading universities.

The evolution of inequality and its causes are of crucial importance to all scholars working in the social sciences.

In the fast-changing policy arena of a country as diverse as India, gauging regional implications of policy shifts is critical but challenging.

This book is the first attempt to highlight the Great Divergence between Europe and China from the perspective of environmental change.

Healthcare managers, professionals and service users operate in an increasingly complex environment in terms of policy, regulation and governance arrangements.

This book provides a general framework for the use of theoretical contributions in empirical works, addressing the question of what is the effect of a price change on household well-being.

This edited book brings together in one place new studies of rural-urban interactions and their implications for regional growth and development in different regions within Asia.

This book reports on 12 education innovation cases in Taiwan and focus particularly on an ecosystem to demonstrate innovation as a competitive advantage and requires an ecosystem to be sustainable in virtually all disciplines.

This book provides a comparative analysis of the regional development strategies of east, west, northeast and central China and the development of important economic regions including the Yangtze River Delta, the Pearl River Delta, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region, the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, Chengdu-Chongqing and central-southern areas of Liaoning Province.

This book surveys existing literature from both waste management and behavioural sciences to offer a complete overview of how economic agents relate to a central matter in the policy making agenda: that of waste prevention and recycling.

This book, the first volume, highlights 8 out of a total of about 36 megacities in the World which by definition have 10 million inhabitants.

This book investigates how paid care work and employment are being transformed by policies of social care individualisation in the context of new gig economies of care.

This book highlights major quantitative and qualitative methods and approaches used in the field of urban analysis.

This book covers several areas, such as immunology, infectious diseases, physiology, general nursing, and medicine as well as measurement accuracy and the history of our understanding of fever.

This book explores three major changes in the circumstances of the migrant working class in south China over the past three decades, from historical and comparative perspectives.

The book shows readers exactly how to use Lean tools to design healthcare work that is smooth, efficient, error free and focused on patients and patient outcomes.

Manufacturing of products in urban production sites is connected to unique potentials, yet also to specific challenges.

The book presents a methodology for detecting intervention needs on existing healthcare buildings and estimating the related costs, to perform a sustainable financial planning for modernization, regulatory adjustment and performance upgrade.

This book addresses the disparities that arise when measuring and modeling societal behavior and progress across the social sciences.

How can we be happier, healthier and more satisfied in life?

This book is Volume I of a two-volume set on antitrust policy, analyzing the economic efficiency and moral desirability of various tests for antitrust legality, including those promulgated by US and EU antitrust law.