Economics of specific sectors

First Published in 2011.

This book focuses on the regional political ecologies (RPEs) of environmental conflicts in India.

This book collects articles on the achievements and experience of special economic zones during the China's Reform and Opening-up in the past 40 years.

This Element, examines organization theory and how healthcare researchers have drawn on organization theory in healthcare management.

Simulation methods are revolutionizing the practice of applied economic analysis.

The catalyst for this study was the Fukushima-Daiichi major nuclear accident of 11 March 2011.

This book highlights advanced applications of geospatial data analytics to address real-world issues in urban society.

Auf dem deutschen Arbeitsmarkt herrscht (ungeachtet der Corona-Krise) Fachkräftemangel und deshalb scharfe Konkurrenz potenzieller Arbeitgeber.

This book addresses the gaps in undergraduate teaching of partial equilibrium analysis, providing a general equilibrium viewpoint to illustrate the assumptions underlying partial equilibrium welfare analysis.

This volume embodies a problem-driven and theoretically informed approach to bridging frontier research in urban economics and urban/regional planning.

Peter Michaelis and Frank Stahler This book deals with recent policy issues in environmental and resource economics.

Our post-industrialised global economy has achieved spectacular success and pushed back poverty to an extent previously thought impossible.

Spatial Microeconometrics introduces the reader to the basic concepts of spatial statistics, spatial econometrics and the spatial behavior of economic agents at the microeconomic level.

The Countryside: Planning and Change (1981) examines the relationship between policies and their actual effects on the countryside, throwing light on the problems inherent in a fragmented approach to policy-making.

Sustainability is a word that means different things depending on who is using it, thus underlining the potential problems involved in experts from different fields teaming up to tackle sustainability problems.

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Avoided deforestation can be characterized as the use of financial incentives to reduce rates of deforestation and forest degradation, with much of the focus on forests in tropical countries.

This book explores the transformation in the healthcare system in Turkey since 2003, which has been portrayed as a benchmark for building universal healthcare systems in emerging market economies.

This handbook provides the most comprehensive examination of Asian cities-developed and developing, large and small-and their urban development.

Personal carbon trading is rapidly moving up the political agenda as recognition grows of its potential to address urgent issues of climate change and natural resource use.

Drawing from the work of academics and practitioners from ten states across the country, this edited volume showcases and synthesises the diversity and richness of efforts to understand and act on the social determinants of health in India, the conditions in which we are born, grow, live work and age.

In this volume security specialists, peace researchers, environmental scholars, demographers as well as climate, desertification, water, food and urbanisation specialists from the Middle East and North Africa, Europe and North America review security and conflict prevention in the Mediterranean.

Addressing the entire care chain, this book presents the outcomes of advanced research on healthcare operations management based on real-world data and practices in China.

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

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

This textbook offers a rigorous, calculus based presentation of the complexities of urban economics, which is suitable for students who are new to the subject.

This shortform textbook provides a concise overview of the fundamentals of environmental economics.

This book provides an evaluation of the science and policy debates on climate change and offers a reframing of the challenges they pose, as understood by key international experts and players in the field.

In the past decade there has been a worldwide evolution in evidence-based medicine that focuses on real-world Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) to compare the effects of one medical treatment versus another in real world settings.

Environment and sustainable development challenges are a matter of global concern.

This book presents a critical analysis of the 'resource curse' doctrine and a review of the international evidence on oil and urban development to examine the role of oil on property development and rights in West Africa's new oil metropolis - Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana.

Housing and neighbourhoods have an important contribution to make to our wellbeing and our sense of our place in the world.

Originally published in 1985, Industrialization and Urbanization in Latin America focuses on the process of industrialisation in Latin America.

This book explores for the first time the punk phenomenon in contemporary China.

This book presents a collection of papers illustrating the variety of "e;experimental"e; methodologies used to study voting.

The Cary Conferences, as we have envisaged them, are different from most scientific meetings in that they provide a forum for major issues in ecology from a more philosophical point of view.

Degrowth is a planned economic contraction in wealthy countries that reduces production and consumption-and, by extension, greenhouse gas emissions and stresses on global ecosystems-to sustainable levels within ecological limits.

This book advances new views on higher education design, steps beyond prevailing problems and perspectives, and stimulates broader contributions.

Originally published in 1987, this book showcases global examples of people and communities who are learning to use the world's resources without despoiling them for future generations.

This book focuses on the 'functionings' and capabilities generated from land by their owners and the challenge in satisfactorily recreating these through the compensation paid in the case of compulsory acquisition of private land.

This book gets to the bottom of the twenty-first-century city, literally.

This book explores the development of the gas industry within Latin Europe (France, Italy, Portugal, and Spain).

Barista in the City examines the impact of paid employment and the contemporary neoliberal context on the subcultural lives of hipsters who are employed as baristas.

Immiserizing growth occurs when growth fails to benefit, or harms, those at the bottom.

This book aims to systematically elaborate how land-use change directly or indirectly exerts impacts on the ability of ecosystems to provide services for human society.

With increasing pressure on resources, the looming spectre of climate change and growing anxiety among eaters, ecology and food are at the heart of the political debates surrounding agriculture and diet.

Although there have been considerable technological advances over the past decade, particularly in terms of mobile applications, much remains unknown about their effect on societal progress.