Economics of specific sectors

2020 introduced a global pandemic that led to global economic, social, and regional lockdowns affecting public life in ways never been imagined before.

In recent decades, policymakers all over the world have sought to strengthen the meaning and effect of public, non-medical healthcare.

This volume examines important topical issues in normative trade theory and welfare economics.

Met de recente decentralisaties in de care ontstaat er een nieuw speelveld waarbij beleidsterreinen in elkaar overvloeien en de burger en de cliënt centraal staan.

This book discusses leafy spices or herbs known as "e;aromatic herbs"e;, which, apart from being used in culinary art for flavoring of foods and beverages, are also known to possess antiseptic, anti-oxidant and other medicinal properties, in addition to many nutraceutical and cosmetic properties.

In this book, well-renowned international scholars discuss topics related to various aspects of the history of the Battle of Salamis, inspired by the democratic origins of the Greek naval victory at Salamis.

This study develops a methodology for rapidly obtaining approximate estimates of the economic consequences from numerous natural, man-made and technological threats.

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This book uses cutting-edge methods, such as big data mining methods on social media, generalized difference in difference, inoperational input-output models, improved data envelopment analysis, improved computable general equilibrium and others to calculate the economic impacts of climate and environmental disasters on China.

Our daily lives are permeated by the activities of logistics and supply chain, from food and clothing to doorstep deliveries.

This book explores the role of governments and international financial institutions (IFIs) in mitigating the perceived risks in green infrastructure markets of emerging and developing countries.

Fate of Biological Contaminants During Recycling of Organic Wastes covers the fate of viruses, HPBs, and ARGs in organic wastes, and their eliminating methods, including composting, vermicomposting and anaerobic digestion.

Handbook of International Economics, Sixth Edition provides a definitive reference for researchers and advanced graduate students.

The volume stresses the relevance of the intersectionality framework in welfare state analysis by examining overlapping inequalities within the shifting institutional boundaries and organisational processes across diverse welfare settings.

The tools of environmental economics guide policymakers as they weigh development against nature, present against future, and certain benefits against uncertain consequences.

The tools of environmental economics guide policymakers as they weigh development against nature, present against future, and certain benefits against uncertain consequences.

This book is a groundbreaking book that delves into the critical intersection of health care and sustainability.

This book critically examines the driving forces, discourses, and conflicts surrounding Chinese investments in overseas farmland, with a specific focus on Australia.

This book brings together all the major components of the private health care sector in India, with detailed description of its evolution, the foundational ideas, its development, the positives and ill effects on the population.

This guide helps readers understand the past, present, and future of America's Medicare and Medicaid programs, which provide health care services and medical coverage to millions of Americans across the USA.

Health economics applies the tools of economic analysis to the problems of health care finance and delivery.

Recent applications of evolutionary game theory in the merging fields of the mathematical and social sciences are brilliantly portrayed in this book, which highlights social physics and shows how the approach can help to quantitatively model complex human-environmental-social systems.

This book presents the fundamentals of evolutionary game theory and applies them to the analysis of epidemics, which is of paramount importance in the aftermath of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic.

This book delivers the fascinating account of one Western family's time living and working in China.

The book provides a new conceptualisation of inflation in underdeveloped economies, through Sri Lanka's historical experience.

Most volumes in the environmental economics literature consider the environment to be a public good and hence write out a role for the private sector in a source of supply.

This book presents selected articles from the 15th International Asian Urbanization Conference, held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, on November 27-30, 2019.

Too often amongst policy makers and thought leaders an assumption is made that we must make a choice between tackling climate change and having a strong economy; tackling climate change and allowing poorer nations to develop; tackling climate change and having a secure energy system.

This book presents a collection of proposed offshore and nearshore settlements in response to the emerging consequences of climate change.

Since the 1990s, city branding has become a key factor in urban development policies.

Societies around the world face an increasingly uncertain future as social and ecological changes create pressure on resource governance, and this uncertainty calls for new models that illuminate the intersections of civil society, public sector, and private sector resource management.

This book seeks new perspectives on the growing inequalities that our societies face, putting forward Structured Additive Distributional Regression as a means of statistical analysis that circumvents the common problem of analytical reduction to simple point estimators.

State climate and clean energy policy will play a critical role in the future of the political dialogue and economic development.

This book explores connections between activist debates about food sovereignty and academic debates about alternative food networks.

Environmental Anthropology studies historic and present human-environment interactions.

The tangible value of increased water efficiency, reuse and recycling and improved social license to operate are moving more companies to adopt water stewardship strategies.

Since 2010, a significant quantity of international climate change finance has begun to reach developing countries.

The book provides fresh look at the issues of sustainable development, degradation of natural resources and vulnerability to climate change in Small Island developing states (SIDS).

The role of advertising in everyday life and as a major employer in post-industrial economies is intimately bound up with processes of contemporary globalization.

Mounting evidence suggests that GDP growth is damaging the natural environment and unlikely to be ecologically sustainable in the long-run.

This book discusses Bangladesh's economic and social development that may be called a "e;miracle"e; since the country has achieved remarkable development progress under several unfavorable situations: weak governance and political instabilities, inequality, risks entailed in rapid urbanization, and exposure to severe disaster risks.

This book explains how and why the state-socialist regime in Hungary used technology and propaganda to foster industrialization and the conservation of natural resources simultaneously.

This is a practical book with clear descriptions of the most commonly used nonmarket methods.

This book highlights various dimensions of human habitats in 21st Century India.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of various aspects of the development of smart cities from a secure, trusted, and reliable data transmission perspective.

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.

This book outlines methodologies to estimate the economic impacts of natural disasters based on business surveys conducted after large disasters in Japan.

This book focuses on the behavioral interactions among possible stakeholders in carbon labeling practice, brings the attentions of stakeholders' interests to explore the opportunities, and challenges related to carbon labeling practice, thus to provide insight into low-carbon consumption and production.

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