Economics of specific sectors

As digitalization and social media are increasingly blurring the boundaries between traditional societal, political, and economic institutions, this book provides a cross-disciplinary examination of value co-creation.

This book is the first to approach healthcare informatics from the perspective of innovation.

The importance of watercourses to human life and development cannot be overemphasised.

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Este libro busca entender los efectos del choque entre el mundo digital y el mundo de las cosas.

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El propósito de HR Makers a través de este libro es compartir las prácticas de evolución de recursos humanos y el negocio como una alternativa para repensar la forma en que brindamos valor en las organizaciones.

Este libro se propone demostrar que necesitamos "políticas de vida" para enfrentar las mutaciones y crisis actuales.

Desde mediados del siglo XX y hasta la actualidad, la Argentina apostó a la industrialización y la urbanización como estrategia de desarrollo.

La migraña es un tipo de dolor crónico que afecta a amplios sectores de la población y, al mismo tiempo, pone en cuestión los modos de reconocer y legitimar socialmente un malestar ya que carece de evidencias empíricas, de respuestas certeras desde los saberes biomédicos, y su diagnóstico emerge luego de realizar estudios que dan bien y de descartar algo grave.

En este libro se describen los principales cambios en el universo agropecuario argentino en los últimos veinte años, teniendo en cuenta los distintos grupos de actores y sus contextos.

Water scarcity due to climate change, population growth, and economic development is a critical issue in many semi-arid and arid regions around the world.

Unlike existing books on the topic that cover more on non-economic aspects of natural disasters, this book covers economic aspects of natural disasters viz damage assessment, risk management and resilience.

This 800-page premier book on energy focuses on energy sources, utilizations, legislations and sustainability as it relates to a state, a province, or a country, or a community within a state.

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.

How is the struggle against climate change financed?

This unique volume takes a very different approach to the county-level governance and the land system reform in China.

The book, written by acclaimed experts from China , is an output of the Low-Carbon City China (LCCC) Programme.

The aim of the book is to provide interested readers with access to a number of articles that have been written over the years on the subject of the linkages between domestic farm policies (particularly in developed countries) and world markets for agricultural goods.

Modernization has effected a profound change in human civilizations and is a global trend since the 18th century.

Environmental asset classes are not a hope for tomorrow but a reality today.

In an effort to promote agro-enterprises and agro-industries as viable forms of inclusive development, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and The Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture and Development (CIIFAD) in collaboration with the International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE), organized an international symposium on the topic "e;Innovative Institutions, Public Policies, and Private Strategies for Inclusive Agro-Enterprise Development"e;, as part of the Triennial Meetings of the IAAE held in Foz do lguacu, Brazil, in August 2012.

This book defines the field of social capital and health.

The major challenge for the current generation of mankind is to develop a shared vision of a future that is both desirable to the vast majority of humanity and ecologically sustainable.

With the rise in the significance of environmental issues, many professionals and students outside the discipline of economics have taken an interest in environmental economics.

Contemporary Chinese rural life is placed in sharp theoretical and practical focus in this book.

Revealed Biodiversity: An Economic History of the Human Impact aims to show that for several centuries environmental conditions have been substantially the product of economic fluctuations.

This book is an introduction to developing and implementing a successful program in the domain of sustainability and social responsibility.

This book provides an evenhanded coverage of Korea's turbulent history during the last one hundred years, from seclusion to division.

Historical Perspectives on East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine brings together over fifty papers by leading contemporary historians from more than a dozen nations.

With the impending demise of modernist planning, the footprints and corpses of failed modernist visions are littered everywhere.

The world is rapidly approaching the end of the fossil fuel era.

Asian Alterity is an interdisciplinary theoretical analysis that vigorously contests the homogeneity of the mainstream Eurocentric values.

Bringing together leading-edge research and innovative energy markets econometrics, this book collects the author's most important recent contributions in energy economics.

This is the first book that analyzes tobacco control policies in China from the perspectives of economics and health.

The oneness of China is the norm.

How does a city make sound policy decisions on sustainability and governance while simultaneously promoting economic growth and development excellence?

With cities rapidly encroaching onto surrounding lands, the notion of "e;eco-city"e; proposes an innovative yet pragmatic approach to designing, building and operating cities in a way that the destructive impact of human urban activity upon nature will be significantly reduced.

As China rises to become the world's largest economy, half a billion rural villagers are expected to become urban residents in the coming decades.

A collection of scholarly accounts and articles written by recognized experts in environmental economics, this book is the first of its kind and as a valuable reference and textual source for graduate students and active researchers.

This book focuses solely on the issues of agriculture and forest productivity analysis with advanced modeling approaches to bring solutions to food-insecure regions of South and Southeast Asia.

This book primarily focuses on the domain conditions under which a number of important classes of binary social decision rules give rise to rational social preferences.

With more and more of the world's population projected to live in urban areas, the life and death of cities has become a key factor in urban development considerations.

Sustainability is about the effective management of nonrenewable and nonreplenishable natural resources.

Serious scholarly analyses of the types and roles of accountability in health care first appeared in the late 1980s.

Interfuel substitution is an issue that is - and will likely remain - an important topic of inquiry for many years, as governments around the world seek to set policies that are intended to restrain carbon emissions or steer economies toward or away from certain fuels.

Most of the existing literature on health system reform in China deals with only one part of the reform process (for example, financing reform in rural areas, or the new system of purchasing pharmaceuticals), or consists of empirical case studies from particular cities or regions.

This book aims to investigate how cities in China's rust belt restructure their urban industries and economies.

This book sheds light on how global warming has caused the ongoing environmental disaster in the Arctic, namely its melting.

Following the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, countries took up the difficult task of finding a common approach that would slow down the build-up of greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere and delay changes to the planet's climate.