Economics of specific sectors

An overview of critical conceptual approaches to water justice, illustrated with global historic and contemporary case studies of socio-environmental struggles.

Birgit Schmidt beschäftigt sich in diesem Buch mit den monetären Folgen, die ein Flughafen – hier der Flughafen Wien – seinem Umfeld auferlegt.

This book presents a novel perspective on immobility, a topic often overlooked in urban planning and transport studies.

City greening has been heralded for contributing to environmental governance and critiqued for exacerbating displacement and inequality.

"e;The labor of nature is paid, not because she does little.

Real Estate: The Basics provides an easy-to-read introduction to the core concepts of the industry to students new to the subject or professionals changing direction within the sector.

Originally published in 1992, as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new series introduction and new preface, Forms of Dominance: On the Architecture and Urbanism of the Colonial Enterprise examines the complex experience of colonial domination, social reaction, and physical adaptation within the built environment of regions such as Morocco, Eastern Europe, India, Guatemala and East Africa, and provides a multi-disciplinary and cross-cultural perspective on the colonial experience.

This book throws light onto the nature and causes of three different but strongly interconnected crises in contemporary societies worldwide: an economic crisis, an ecological crisis and a normative (moral and political) crisis.

This book addresses major issues facing postal and delivery services throughout the world.

This book demonstrates that, when reforming the water sector, policymakers should arrange social policies that mitigate the negative impact of reforms.

The book provides an overview of the policy frameworks that have been employed to support offshore wind power, and their efficacy in nurturing sustainable cost reductions across the industry.

This book examines the use of smart city-associated technologies to enhance sustainable transportation planning in cities of both the global north and south, focusing specifically on sustainable transportation.

The increasing demand for rural land and its natural resources is creating competition and conflicts.

Public agencies and industry will probably spend tens of billions of dollars on new water pollution abatement facilities in the next few decades.

This book presents a set of original and innovative contributions on state, institutions and democracy in the field of political economy.

Das Buch bietet einen ganzheitlichen und praktischen Ansatz für das Lean Management in der gesamten Wertschöpfungskette eines Unternehmens.

Originally published in 1952.

Keynes was an elitist and pro-capitalist economist, whom the left should embrace with caution.

Chronology of Venezuelan Oil (1969) covers all aspects of the Venezuelan petroleum industry's historical evolution: technical, legal, economic, social and political to create a reference source for scholars, teachers, executives, professionals and technicians, as well as students of the industry.

The economic downturn that began in 2008, the most severe in decades, has hit older Americans hard.

This book features carefully selected articles on emerging technologies for waste valorization and environmental protection.

These days, the idea of "e;value"e; is at the center of many activities and decisions in health care in the United States.

This book outlines a Christian ethical basis for how decisions about health care funding and priority-setting ought to be made.

The papers in Measurement of Poverty, Deprivation, and Social Exclusion represent the most current research on poverty, deprivation, and income mobility.

Der Sammelband setzt den Schwerpunkt auf wichtige Teilaspekte zum Thema Management von Gesundheitsregionen.

This handbook brings together a collection of seminal research on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and investigates the effectiveness of the 17 goals for achieving transformative change toward sustainable development.

"Sparsam wachsen" ist das Gebot der Stunde - denn die meisten Rohstoffe sind endlich, das Wirtschaftswachstum ist dadurch aber nicht zwangsläufig begrenzt.

This book provides an analysis of the role of fog computing, cloud computing, and Internet of Things in providing uninterrupted context-aware services as they relate to Healthcare 4.

Change and development are going on all around us.

This book is a fully up to date study of the major issues facing forest conservation and the forestry industry, which considers developments at local, national and global levels.

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.

The causes, consequences and control of land use change have become topics of enormous importance in contemporary society.

This book brings a negotiation perspective to healthcare.

This volume is the record of a conference held in March 1989 that centered on a departure from the basic U.

Multinational Enterprise and Transnational Regions offers an innovative approach to the study of the history of transnational economic regions.

This volume is a collection of essays that provide a comprehensive coverage of multiple aspects of the discourse on environment, development and sustainability.

A sweeping, policy-oriented account of the private and public management of the world's essential natural resource.

Dieses Buch beschreibt die Entwicklungen im Bundesland Nordrhein-Westfalen (NRW) im Themenfeld Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) aus völlig unterschiedlichen Blickwinkeln.

Understanding the ground rules of climate change for business.

One of the most important changes in industrialised societies is the trend to early retirement.

First written in 1977, Economics of Natural and Environmental Resources presents a collection of articles written in exploration of the economic, social, and ecological problems peculiar to natural and environmental resources.

The Agricultural Dilemma questions everything we think we know about the current state of agriculture and how to, or perhaps more importantly how not to, feed a world with a growing population.

What does the transition to a Low Carbon Britain mean for the future development of cities and regions across the country?

From a war-torn and famine-plagued country at the beginning of the 1990s, Ethiopia is today emerging as one of the fastest-growing economies in Africa.