Economics of specific sectors

Endogenous growth theory has significantly impacted most of the developing and developed countries, shifting priorities of industrial policies towards innovation.

Consumption, Jobs and the Environment argues that the present pattern of development, based on everlasting economic growth, is completely unsatisfactory from a welfare point of view.

Future farm managers need a range of tools and knowledge to run successful businesses, and this accessible textbook provides the required foundations from economics and management, applied to the farm context.

There is no question that the timber industry needs to adopt sustainable practices that ensure a future for the industry.

Forestry Economics introduces students and practitioners to the economics of managing forests and forest enterprises.

A legislative and administrative history on the social, cultural, and intellectual significance of the national park idea.

This book challenges the view that Run- of-River hydropower dams are green, clean and renewable.

This book offers an overview of Russian and international experience in developing the concept of future cities and its practical implementation.

The first edition of this book looked at the emergence of 'ecopreneurs' - environmental entrepreneurs gaining competitive advantage for their firms through understanding and utilising green issues.

This Brief presents a benefit-cost analysis of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) as well as an evaluation of its cumulative socioeconomic effects.

Agricultural Bioeconomy: Innovation and Foresight in the Post-COVID Era presents recent advancements in biotechnology, exploring the optimal utilization of technologies to provide rapid and impactful economic recovery and sustainable resources in a future that will bear the mark of COVID-19.

Pressures for transformational change have become a regular feature of most fields of human endeavour.

This book analyses the unprecedented economic and social challenges to human civilization from the perspective of Buddhist philosophy.

In this updated edition of a groundbreaking text, concepts such as energy return on investment (EROI) provide powerful insights into the real balance sheets that drive our "e;petroleum economy.

This book presents new research on innovative financial instruments and approaches available to implement nature-based solutions (NBS) at various scales and in different contexts.

Originally published in 1978.

Discusses how G20, IMF and OECD have addressed climate finance and fossil fuel subsidies, including consequences for climate politics.

First Published in 2011.

What does it mean to think of HIV/AIDS policy in a critical manner?

This book presents a collection of ten empirical studies on Iran's sustainable agriculture and agribusiness, grouped into three domains: agricultural prices and commodity market analysis; risk management and climate change; and natural resources and environmental economics.

Jörg Neubauer entwickelt ein Modell, das strukturelle Einflussfaktoren auf die Korruptionsanfälligkeit in kleinen und mittelständischen Unternehmen in Deutschland identifiziert und nach deren Stärke quantifiziert.

Originally published in 1961.

In cities around the world, digital technologies are utilized to manage city services and infrastructures, to govern urban life, to solve urban issues and to drive local and regional economies.

This book sets out the building blocks of an economic approach to biodiversity, and in particular brings together conceptual and empirical work on valuation, international agreements, the policy instruments, and the institutions.

'Boserup's contribution to our thinking on women's role in development cannot be underestimated.

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

Genetically modified crops have become a key element of development strategies across the Global South, despite remaining deeply controversial.

Demand side management (DSM) is one of the most topical issues in regulating electric utilities, both in the United States and internationally.

Application of Artificial Intelligence in Hybrid Electric Vehicle Energy Management presents the state-of-the-art in hybrid electric vehicle system modelling and management.

The circular economy describes a world in which reuse through repair, reconditioning and refurbishment is the prevailing social and economic model.

Dissatisfaction with the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as an indicator of a country's development or a population's wellbeing led to the development of the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI).

This book provides guidelines for emergency managers, responders, and health care professionals to establish a mass casualty/mass fatality (MC/MF) management plan.

This book offers a comprehensive and systematic examination of the issues involved within Ocean Economics.

Long run aspects of environmental protection and of the useof resources areanalyzed within a planning model.

Accomplishing sustainability in the agribusiness sector is a significant, yet time-sensitive, challenge, especially when balanced with the need to grow sufficient quantity and quality of food to keep the growing global population healthy.

Examining non-technological innovations for environmentally and socially-friendly transport, this book provides the reader with a better understanding of this often overlooked topic.

This book provides a broad overview of how sustainability reporting has grown, how it is used now, and where it is heading.

This book develops an analytical framework for understanding United States foreign agricultural policy through a "e;state interest"e; approach, and describes and analyses seven cases of food policy decisions through this perspective which shows that decision makers sought on most occasions to utilise US food resources to accomplish foreign policy objectives.

Originally published in 1988.

Bringing together a selection of readings that represent some of the most important trends and topics in urban scholarship today, American Urban Politics in a Global Age provides historical context and contemporary commentaries on the economy, politics, culture, and identity of American cities.

This book investigates the existing and possible links between the concept of a Carbon Club and the Paris Agreement.

This volume examines the impact of wealth on quality of life and subjective well-being (SWB).

This book assesses the capacity of the rural populace in terms of their ability to perceive a change in climatic variables and, if so, how they react to these changes in order to minimize the adverse effect of climate change.

Originally published in 1995.

In 150 years Italy transformed itself from a poor and backward country into one where living standards are among the highest in the world.