Economics of specific sectors Books

Die Autorin analysiert ausländischer Erfahrungswerte aus Schweden und den USA im Hinblick auf Anwendung von Kapazitätsmechanismen. Ziel ist an einen internationalen Kriterien-Vergleich anzuknüpfen und dieses Modell für den deutschen Strommarkt abzuwägen.

Ein großer Teil der öffentlichen Leistungserbringer wird mittlerweile als privatrechtliche Gesellschaften in einem wettbewerbsorientierten Umfeld geführt. Da bis dato empirische Erkenntnisse zur Steuerung dieser kommunalen Beteiligungen fehlen, setzt...

History shows popular beliefs about environmental hazards and health risks-whether alarmist or dismissive-are often wrong. Leaded paint never protected human health. Acid mine drainage never protected us against Typhoid fever. Sulfur dioxide never...

Classic economic considerations applied to the crucial urban problems of poverty, racial segregation, urban renewal, transportation, and education.Originally published in 1968

The contributors explore the decision-making processes that surround environmental issues and attempt to provide realistic models for making policy decisions.Originally published in 1975

This is a collection of theoretical papers, including contributions by Partha Dasgupta and three Nobel prize-winning economists: Kenneth Arrow, Amartya Sen, and Joseph Stiglitz. Originally published in 1982.

Twelve scholars examine some leading problems in environmental quality, analyze present situations and future prospects, and suggest what might be done about them.Originally published in 1966

Despite the radical transformation of society associated with globalisation, shifting patterns of demography and the revolution in information and communication technologies over the last two decades, we remain profoundly attached to place in economic,...

The latest edition of this renowned textbook explores the states and regimes of the MENA. Presenting heavily revised, fully updated chapters contributed by the world's leading experts, it analyzes the historical trajectory, political institutions,...

""A Popular Essay On Subjects Of Penal Law, And On Uninterrupted Solitary Confinement At Labor"" is a book written by Francis Lieber in 1838. The book discusses various topics related to penal law, including the history and philosophy of punishment, the...

A Concise Treatise On The Law Of Capital And Income As Between Life-Tenant And Remainderman is a legal book written by William Henry Gover in 1901. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the law of capital and income as it applies to the...

 The objective of macroeconomic behavioral methods is to control the short run behavior of an country's economy development.  Is it useful to be applied to assist developing countries' economic development.  If we think of stability as a...

 This book is concerned how to apply behavioral economy method to  predict consumer behavior. This book divides two parts, first part introduce what is behavioral economy asn second part explains how environment influences consumer behavior...

The book Decoding Indian Economy covers various aspects of the Indian Economy including its problems along with suggested solutions. This book is a compilation of research done by students who were sensitized by news articles related to the contemporary...

Der erste Band der GUG-Schriftenreihe befaßt sich mit der Definition von Umweltqualitätszielen und ihrer Umsetzung in die Praxis. Die Schwierigkeiten bei der Ableitung von Umweltqualitätszielen aus einem "Leitbild" heraus...

Hier berichten Fachleute aus Ministerien, Planungs- und Ingenieurbüros zum Thema Standortplanung für thermische Abfallbehandlungsanlagen. Schwerpunkte sind unter anderem:- rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen,- die künftige Rolle...

This book serves as an introduction to sustainability standards and instruments and includes chapters on initiatives of governmental and intergovernmental bodies, sectoral CSR commitments, CSR-related reporting and management standards, and securities...

This book is a comprehensive guide to community engagement and investment, beginning with a survey of community-related voluntary standards and then turning to strategy and management, community engagement, community investment and reporting and...

Home Ownership is a Human Right...It's a travesty that our young can no longer afford a home of their ownHow did Australian home ownership become so unattainable? Can we 're-think' the way housing is built so the Australian Dream can again be possible...

DEVELOPING CUSTOMER SERVICES IN THE BLACK-OWNED BUSINESSBlack businesses offer great customer service generally. However, we also know that many Black business owners have long been plagued with the title of offering less than acceptable customer service...

From the bestselling author of Think and Grow Rich and The Law of Success comes a master class in individual achievement. Learn how to implement the success system responsible for the remarkable accomplishments of America's greatest entrepreneurs,...

With the Yellowstone River Valley of Montana as its setting, this book introduces readers to sustainability issues, theory, and science.Sustainability offers a vision for business and society that benefits Earth. Yet sustainability is often taught in...

2009 reprint of 1932 edition. Garet Garrett was born in 1878 in Illinois. By 1903, he had become a well known writer for the old New York Sun. In 1916, at the age of 38, Garrett became the executive editor of the New York Tribune, after having worked...

The role of real estate in our cities is crucial to building sustainable and resilient urban futures. Smart Urban Regeneration brings together institutional, planning and real estate insights into an innovative regeneration framework for academics,...

The collapse of communism in Central, East and South-East Europe (CESEE) led to great hopes for the region and for Europe. A quarter of a century on, the picture is mixed: in many CESEE countries, the transformation process is incomplete, and the...

This book is a timely overview of the various aspects of consumer perception related to food. This book explores consumer perceptions that are vital to marketers and often underlie the success or failure of products in the marketplace. Perception is the...

This book offers an up-to-date and comprehensive picture of the Vietnamese economy which is the fast-growing economy in Southeast Asia. The country has invested heavily in education, health, and development infrastructure across the country. Progress in...

This edited book is the first to bring together in one place new theoretical and empirical evidence as well as case studies about spatial spillovers, with a particular focus on spillovers in Asia. In the context of this book, spatial spillovers are...

This open access book brings together researchers from a variety of disciplines to explore science, technology, and innovation cooperation between China and African countries by using  different  perspectives. The growing economic,...

This book tries to root its exploration of China's urbanization in the very local realities of China from the perspective of urban geography and international urbanization theory. The research is of large scale, full process and boasts the feature of...

This book provides readers with insight into current industrial ecology practices in developing and developed countries, how it impacts sustainability, and why it is becoming more relevant. The book affects the audience to understand the scarcity of raw...

This book covers the various technological developments and challenges in converting biomass residues into different forms of bioenergy. The continuous increase in the world population increased the demand for food products. The incorporation of modern...

This book focuses solely on the issues of agricultural productivity analysis with advanced modeling approaches bringing solutions to food-insecure regions of the world, especially in south and southeast Asia and in Africa. Advanced modeling tools and...

This book broadens the reader's knowledge of several important issues having to do with the economy of Indonesia and its surrounding regions, to which Professor Iwan Jaya Azis has made significant contributions in the last 40 years. The book is divided...

This book aims to explore the development model of Great Bay Area (GBA) of China as economic engine under the context of open policy. Based on comprehensive research, both theoretically and practically, on the leading free ports in the world...

This book provides with its readers an objective overview of the latest development of China's special economic zones in 2019. It aims to inform researchers what achievements have been attained in one year and tells stories to general readers about...

This book covers many aspects of innovation theory, evolutionary economics, economic geography, and simulation models. It is one of the first books to comprehensively and systematically focus on the evolution of regional innovation based on provincial...

This book first provides a comprehensive guideline for future disaster-resistant city planning in large cities in disaster-prone countries such as Japan. It is a compilation of knowledge and know-how obtained through the author's work in the national...

This book places islanders' struggles and knowledge at the forefront of island studies. Written by experts from diverse fields and locations, it covers a wide range of topics, from the history of island studies to critical ocean studies. In remapping the...

This book acquaints readers with a range of techniques to help them effectively identify, record, map, analyze and report on patterns in various dimensions of human development (HD) with spatial scales down to the village level. It is impossible to...

This book addresses sustainability thinking and the bigger picture, by taking into consideration how and from where contemporary schools of thought emerged approximately a quarter-century ago. Evidence from the literature illustrates a number of key...

This book highlights the relationship between disasters and development through a socio-cultural study of human geography and governance institutions. It studies the cause, context and consequences of disasters in one of the most fragile Himalayan...

Part 1:  Basic Concerns.- Chapter 1.  Development: the Concept.- Chapter 2. Sustainable Development.- Chapter 3. Science, Ethics and Development.- Chapter 4. Climate Change: the Facts.- Part 2: ...

This book addresses essential questions about housing by building theoretical models based on various real world problems in Japan and testing these models using econometric methods. Almost all related empirical analyses use Japanese household...

This book introduces recent developments in both theoretical and empirical analyses of local public economics. Theories of those economics as well as empirical analyses have been developed dramatically in various directions in recent years. One...

This monograph presents potential remedies for some of the current environmental issues in developed countries in a theoretical or empirical manner with the interdisciplinary approaches of economics, statistics, and engineering. The book illustrates...