Economics

Natural resources management has two principal dimensions : Science-illuminated (earth, space, hydrological, pedological, information, etc. sci...

This title was first published in 2000: Marking the centenary of Seebohm Rowntrees first study of poverty in York, this volume examines the modern ...

During the past 25 years the burden of managing economic policy for competitiveness has devolved to cities and to urban regions. National governmen...

This book provides an updated, concise summary of forecasting air travel demand methodology. It looks at air travel demand forecasting research and...

China faces the problem of collaboration deficiency in local governance of metropolitan areas. With the evolution of regional spatial structure in ...

This book proposes that entrepreneurial practice is often considered an applicable paradigm. An applicable paradigm - which focus too much on plann...

This book looks at the rationale behind the Belt and Road Initiative by China, and attempts to explain the motivation from economical and historica...

Providing human service through markets is inherently problematic. Quality care is critical and unsatisfactory human service greatly influences peo...

Why are some regions and cities so good at attracting talented people, creating high-level knowledge, and producing exciting new ideas and innovati...

Existing literature has looked at many factors which have shaped Chinese pension reforms. As Chinas pension reform proceeds in an expanding and loc...

The book provides new vistas on Karl Marxs political economy, philosophy and politics on the occasion of his 200th birthday.Often using hitherto un...

How do we advance? As individuals, families, and businesses? As societies, nations, and a species? In a world where its said there is nothing new u...

Economic growth has extraordinarily increased the availability of market goods to satisfy peoples need for comfort, but at the same time it has als...

The Economies of European Union Small Member and Candidate States deals with the small states and candidate states of the EU, with a focus on their...

Celebrating twenty years of transition from socialism to capitalism, this book is designed to be the core textbook for undergraduate courses in tra...

Self-Balancing is not just a tweak or change to assembly line balancing, but a completely transformed method for achieving continuous flow. Among t...

This Dictionary provides entries on the history and economy of each constituent country of the region, as well as entries on any distinct territori...

Two revolutions roiled the rural South after the mid-1960s: the politicalrevolution wrought by the passage of civil rights legislation, and the ong...

The global 'financial' crisis at the turn of the decade has accelerated changes in the relative standing of major regions. As both the US and Euroz...

For years, North Carolina has been one of the nation's fastest-growing states, bringing tremendous change to the state's people, industries, jobs, ...

A unified framework for understanding monetary policy, including recent unprecedented interventions by central banksOver the past two decades, mone...

As trade and production have increasingly crossed international boundaries, private bodies and governments alike have sought new ways to regulate l...

Advances in nanotechnology are transforming the ways of creating materials and products, leading society to the threshold of a second industrial re...

Practice management for Land, Construction and Property Professionals presents the expert views and practical experience of researchers and practit...

The proceedings of the CIB W65 Symposium on the Organization and Management of Construction conference are presented here and in the companion volu...

Greeces economy and society have undergone important structural changes in recent years as a result of the financial crisis and consequent austerit...

This book focuses on the nature and role of entrepreneurship in modern developed and emerging economies and societies, its relation to governments ...

Investment is the engine of growth. In consequence, the social welfare of the populace depends on the expectations of uncertain profitability as un...

In this fourth and final volume of the CARE-ing for Integral Development series, Ronnie Lessem integrates all that has come before in terms of: Com...

There are 60 million health care workers globally and most of this workforce consists of nurses, as they are key providers of primary health care. ...

Turkey has experienced growth in both the population and the workforce. However, female participation in the workforce in Turkey is extremely low, ...