Economics of specific sectors

This book provides research that shows tropical cyclones are more powerful than in the past with the most dramatic increases occurring over the North Atlantic and with the strongest hurricanes.

Originally published in 1977.

The debate on connections between economic activity and socio-environmental impact has become increasingly relevant.

This book presents a new perspective on climate change for researchers and policymakers in the environmental social sciences and humanities.

The sign that 'Africa is on Sale' has been appearing with regular frequency in major newspaper accounts across the world, indicating that large amounts/expanses of Africa's rich farmlands are being sold to transnational investors, usually on long-term leases, at a rate not seen in decades - indeed not since the colonial period.

The development of an international substantive environmental right on a global level has long been a contested issue.

Qualität im Gesundheitswesen wird in besonderem Maße durch das Qualitätsverständnis in den Gesundheitsberufen und der Logik professioneller Handlungspraxis bestimmt.

Innovative, long-term strategies for reducing vulnerability to large-scale natural disasters and for providing financial support for disaster victims.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of current renewable energy technologies and their basic principles.

This Handbook offers a broad yet unified treatment of many philosophical issues connected with climate change, ranging from foundational puzzles to detailed applications.

This book demonstrates that a holistic approach to the bioeconomy is essential if it is to achieve its full potential in driving economic growth while simultaneously providing ecological, social and technological benefits.

In diesem Buch wird eine Konzeption für das Prozesscontrolling entwickelt und analysiert, inwieweit eine solche Konzeption sinnvoll und gewinnbringend im Krankenhaus genutzt werden kann.

The purpose of this volume is to describe the impact of the increased demand for flexibility on employees and its impact on their individual work life trajectories and health.

Based on a detailed investigation of local sources, this book examines the history of the landed estate system in England since the mid-seventeenth century.

Energy Economics outlines the fundamental issues and possible solutions to the challenges of energy production and use, presenting a framework for decisions based upon sound economic analysis.

This idea-packed resource takes systems and complexity sciences out of blue-sky territory and into the concrete world of contemporary healthcare practice.

Due to the urbanisation of American society and the economic problems that accompanied it; a series of conferences was held to explore the economics of human resources.

Approaches climate change as an issue of human security and ethical obligation, arguing for a more equitable and sustainable future.

Focusing on health care, education, and elderly care, Privatizing Welfare Services draws on extensive research on the consequences of introducing market-based mechanisms to deliver welfare services.

Tapping Water Markets is about the past, present, and future of water markets.

Originally published in 2002, The Subsidy Scandal examines the subsidies spent by governments and the affect this has had on the environment.

This multidisciplinary book brings together medical, management, and architectural disciplines in order to formulate new approaches to the programming, planning, and design of healthcare facilities that will improve the quality of healthcare systems in rapidly developing countries, respecting local culture.

Blueprint 3 is the direct sequel to the ground-breaking Blueprint for a Green Economy.

The book discusses the socio-cultural-historical, occupational, educational, employment and discriminatory status of one of the most neglected and marginalised communities: the de-notified tribes or ex-criminal tribes of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.

Globalisation and rapid social and environmental change in recent decades have brought into sharper focus not only the benefits but also the costs of economic development.

Sustainable economic development is necessary to improve the standard of liv- ing and quality of life in the developing countries.

This handbook examines how existing laws and policies fail to protect communities from major disasters and describes the actions needed to promote greater resilience.

The contributors explore the decision-making processes that surround environmental issues and attempt to provide realistic models for making policy decisions.

This book looks at institutional reforms for the use of energy, water and resources toward a sustainable future in East Asia.

This book explores public budgeting in India.

Nearly 370 million people in China smoke; about one-third of all smokers in the world are in China; and about 1.

The book provides an overview on national policies and regulations related to water resource management in the Middle East and North African countries (MENA), where water scarcity problems are critical.

Through an approach strongly oriented to socio-health contexts and healthcare facilities, with multidisciplinary contributions on the methodological and technical aspects, or legislative issues, the book provides tools and design strategies to plan and realize therapeutic places and healing gardens for care, rehabilitation, interaction, and social inclusion.

This book presents a technical approach to promoting the development of disaster and climate change risk financing and transfer strategies, and discusses several practical issues, chiefly focusing on Latin America and the Caribbean.

Um bestimmte Anstrengungen zum Vertriebserfolg einer Systematik zu unterziehen, werden Ihnen in dem Vertriebscontrolling eBook messbare Schlüsselfaktoren dargestellt, mit dem Sie das Vertriebsgeschehen überwachem können.

Ausgehend von einer Analyse der Krise der globalen Biosphäre und ihrer Bedeutung für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung leiten die Wissenschaftler Prinzipien für eine erfolgreiche internationale "Biosphärenpolitik" ab.

Das Buch geht der zentralen Frage nach, was die Gesundheitswirtschaft aus anderen Branchen lernen und wie sie architektonisch neu gestaltet werden kann.

This book uses an economic approach to analyze the socioeconomic causes and consequences of mental health disorders in China, with a special focus on mental depression.

This book answers the question of how to design a sharing system that can promote sustained, meaningful, and socially constructive sharing practices in today's cities.

Dieser Sammelband dient dem Austausch von Forschungsergebnissen zwischen den Projekten der Fokusgruppe „AAL-MST an der Schnittstelle Nutzer-Dienstleistungen“.

The Communist Economic Challenge (1965) examines the substantial industrial development in the Soviet Union, and its European satellites, and China, looking at Khrushchev's boast that by 1970 the USSR's industrial output would surpass that of the USA.

This report, first published in 1977, explores several different approaches to the same question; namely, how severe will be the impact on key U.

Medicine itself is sick.

This book is the first of its kind to tackle in detail the nutritional requirements of the industrialized, so-called developed world.

An in-depth and balanced economic analysis of the costs, hazards, regulation and politics of nuclear power.

Providing an overview of the future research challenges for economists and social scientists concerning population ageing, pensions, health and social care in Europe, this book examines how scientific research can provide cutting-edge evidence on income security and well-being of the elderly, and labour markets and older workers.

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