Economics of specific sectors

Whitesell discusses the efforts of scientists to understand earth''s climate history and possible risk management policies.

Twenty years of talks have done little to slow global warming.

Whitesell discusses the efforts of scientists to understand earth''s climate history and possible risk management policies.

The first detailed description and analysis of the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme.

Charts the way for recovering from the recession and saving the planet at the same time.

This book evaluates why cities choose to bid for the Olympics, why Olympic bids fail, and whether cities can benefit from failed bids.

This book systematically deconstructs the pervasive and counter-productive discourse surrounding environmental policy.

This pioneering book explores the meaning of the term "e;Black social economy,"e; a self-help sector that remains autonomous from the state and business sectors.

This book argues that a variety of policies will be required to create synergies between the water-energy-food nexus sectors while reducing trade-offs in the development of a green economy.

Nanak Kakwani and Hyun Hwa Son make use of social welfare functions to derive indicators of development relevant to specific social objectives, such as poverty- and inequality-reduction.

With mega townships as the tool, this book analyses the complexity, scale and the challenges associated with the development paradigm in India from various built environment lenses.

During the 1990s Francis Fukuyama announced the end of history.

This book discusses the new challenges facing Business Schools around the world with potential scenarios that may be envisioned for 2030 and strategies for stakeholders.

This edited collection investigates the role of Italy in pursuing the EU five targets by 2020: R&D/innovation expenditures; the energetic measures for climate change; migration; the counter actions against poverty and social exclusion.

This book explores the universal and highly topical issues of ageing and retirement.

This book explores how energy efficiency is a major component in the development of sustainable real estate.

Murtin examines the long-term causes of health improvements over the last two centuries.

This book provides a critical and theoretically-informed assessment of the nature and types of structural change occurring in the Irish welfare state in the context of the 2008 economic crisis.

To a backdrop of ageing societies, pension crises and labour market reforms, this book investigates how the policy shift from early retirement to active ageing has affected individual retirement behaviour.

This book describes the changing landscape of European forest ownership and explores the impact a new, often urban, generation of forest owners may have on the future of one of our most basic resources - forests.

This book examines the concept of dignity from a variety of global perspectives.

Paul Auerbach's Socialist Optimism offers an alternative political economy for the twenty-first century.

With the rise of wealth inequalities, our cities are changing dramatically.

This book examines healthcare innovation processes, shedding light on the controversies endemic to innovation, which make such processes notoriously challenging.

The authors suggest that China's renewable energy system, the largest in the world, will quickly supersede the black energy system that has powered the country's rapid rise as workshop of the world and for reasons that have more to do with fixing environmental pollution and enhancing energy security than with curbing carbon emissions.

It was a part of the wisdom of mainstream economics that in the early stages of development inequality would rise but as growth persisted, it would, eventually, decline.

Sustainable wine businesses are being crafted around the world, leaving the land in better shape for the next generation.

Advanced Cultural Districts explores the organisational design issues within the cultural heritage sector, with particular focus on the advanced forms of cultural districts for local socio-economic development.

The global crisis has led to dramatic increases in unemployment rates over most of the countries of the OECD.

It was part of common wisdom that in the early stages of development inequality would rise, but it would, eventually, decline.

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Mainstream economics almost completely ignores the role power plays in determining economic outcomes, which means it can only provide partial explanations of the distribution of wealth and income, and of the problems associated with inequality and poverty.

Executive education is a billion dollar industry that has the potential to transform individual and organizational performance, but in too many cases the decision whether or not to lavish it upon any given manager comes down to whether the fear that they will leave if you don't spend money on them is greater than the fear that they will leave if you do.

This book develops and illustrates a new promising workshop methodology utilized for the first time in a comparative study between Italy and Australia.

The last financial crisis revealed a gap between business practice and ethics.

With China replacing the United States as the world's leading energy user and net oil importer, its relations with the Middle East is becoming a major issue with global implications.

We must quickly learn how to live well in the world as it is today, including the realm of work.

Waste to Wealth proves that 'green' and 'growth' need not be binary alternatives.

This book is the first full-length treatment of the desirability and feasibility of implementing a citizen's income (also known as a basic income).

This book examines the organizational consequences of the recent international preoccupation with managing patient safety in the clinic.

This book explores the political aspects of China's climate change policy, focusing on the newly established carbon markets and carbon trading schemes.

This book explores how political, social, economic and institutional factors in eight emerging economies have combined to generate diverse outcomes in their move towards universal health care.

Why is it that government debt in the developed world has risen to world war proportions in a time of peace?

This book analyzes national anti-poverty measures at a local level via a set of unique and up-to-date empirical studies of minimum income support schemes and activation measures in five European cities.

In the modern Western world, we tend to be insured by the state or for-profit insurers.

This narrative and empirical analysis investigates Hilary's claim that in his day they would not have left a man behind to die.

Green Marketing examines the concept of 'Green Marketing' using examples from Turkey and the rest of the world.

Expanding upon Leadership Development for Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice and Leadership and Collaboration, the third installment to this original and innovative collection of books considers a variety of research models and theories.

Growth, Employment, Inequality, and the Environment deals with the fundamental economic problems of our time: employment, inequality, the environment, and quality of life.

Bringing together contributions from an international group of social scientists, this collection examines diverse crises, both historical and contemporary, which implicate market forces, widening inequalities, social exclusion, forms of resistance, and ideological polarisation.