This book deals with not just complex linkages, interactions and exchanges that form the relationship between the economic activities, human society and the ecosystems, but also the influences and impacts that each causes on the other.
This collection examines the role that foreign aid can play in dealing with the severe global challenge of climate change, one of the most pressing international development issues of the 21st century.
This timely contribution to the global literature on health inequities approaches the subject through a synthesis and analysis of relevant published literature on India.
This book addresses major aspects of inequity, such as access, financing, financial risk protection, gender, service delivery and utilization, in the healthcare sector in India,.
This cutting edge collection examines Japan's population issue, exploring how declining demographic trends are affecting Japan's social structure, specifically in the context of Greater Tokyo, life infrastructure, public finance and the economy.
This comprehensive volume contributes to the existing and emerging body of literature on contemporary urbanization and the interactions between cities and the environment.
By empirically assessing the competitiveness of 505 cities around the world from regional, national and other perspectives, this book not only ranks these cities but also presents a treasure trove of information with regard to each city's relative strengths and weaknesses.
This book sheds new light on the relationship between economy and the environment by approaching the issue from evolutionary and institutional economics.
This book focuses on urbanization as an attendant consequence of industrialization and sheds light on urban problems such as housing shortages and poverty of jobless people, and the housing and social policies implemented by central and local governments to deal with these problems.
This book describes the principles of integrated assessment models (IAM) for climate change economics and introduces various computable models for different development mechanisms under climate change governance.
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.
The book contains the proceedings of CAETS 2015 Convocation on 'Pathways to Sustainability: Energy, Mobility and Healthcare Engineering' that was held on October 13-14, 2015 in New Delhi.
These conference proceedings focus on the topics of data-driven decision-making, stochastic decision-making, fuzzy decision-making and their applications in real-life problems.
This book is particularly concerned with China's path to green development and how it can be understood, exploring questions such as how the goal of Chinese-led green development can be achieved.
This study develops a methodology for rapidly obtaining approximate estimates of the economic consequences from numerous natural, man-made and technological threats.
Through the analysis of Indian metropolises, this volume critiques the reality of "e;entrepreneurial governance"e; that has emerged as a major urban development practice in cities of the global south.
This book develops and assesses a decision-making model for resource management in complex work systems in line with the "e;Systems Engineering"e; method.
This study examines and explains the relationship between social health insurance (SHI) participation and out-of-pocket expenditures (OOP) as well as the mediating role the institutional arrangement of SHI plays in this relationship in China.
This book examines the Facilities Management (FM) of hospitals and healthcare facilities, which are among the most complex, costly and challenging kind of buildings to manage.
This book focuses on multi-level actions that have attracted considerable interest and discussion within academia, decision makers and the public as a tool to assess anthropogenic effects of low-carbon energy development.
This book takes stock of micro irrigation systems (MIS), the technological intervention in India's agricultural and water management sectors, over the past couple of decades.
This book focuses on the application of newly innovated analytical tools for sustainable development on regional economic and environmental issues in Korea.
This book is a compendium of case studies illustrating how economic tools and techniques can be used to address a wide range of problems in the management and conservation of marine and coastal ecosystems in a developing country context.
This book is a volume of essays celebrating the life and work of Yoshiro Higano, professor of Environmental Policy, Doctoral Program in Sustainable Environmental Studies, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan.
This is the first book that takes a theoretical approach to the effects of international immigration by considering the current economic topics confronted by more highly developed countries such as Japan.
Este trabajo corresponde a los resultados de investigación de una tesis de doctorado en salud pública, cuyo problema de indagación fue la comprensión del proceso de configuración del movimiento social por la salud en Colombia, desarrollado durante el proceso de implementación la reforma sanitaria.
Este libro es el resultado de un dialógico interdisciplinario en el que confluyen profesionales de diferentes campos del conocimiento, pero que tienen en común su preocupación por la crisis socioambiental, además de su optimismo y confianza en que la racionalidad humana tendrá la capacidad de actuar responsablemente con el planeta y podrá revertir la tendencia de agotamiento, degradación y deterioro de la riqueza natural y social que ha caracterizado la economía de mercado hegemónica en los últimas décadas.
Con la periodicidad anual que corresponde, el Grupo de Investigación del Departamento de Derecho del Medio Ambiente presenta el tomo III de la Colección Derecho de Tierras, el cual es resultado de la convocatoria que se hace periódicamente a los investigadores, a los profesores de la especialización en Derecho de tierras, y a la comunidad académica en general, para que estudien y presenten los aspectos centrales de esta rama del ordenamiento jurídico.
"La bioeconomía constituye una estrategia basada en la idea de un uso más eficiente de los recursos, tecnologías y procesos biológicos para la provisión de bienes y servicios que nuestras sociedades demandan.
Promoted as a prestigious economic opportunity and often aggressively sought by local leaders, hosting a modern Olympics can in fact be a "e;city-killer"e; that racks up billions of dollars in over-budget expenses, degrades the environment, and shreds civil liberties.
