Showing 1 - 10 of 805
The aim of The Elgar Companion to Health Economics is to take an audience of advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers to the frontier of research in health economics, by providing them with short and easily readable introductions to key topics. The volume brings together 50...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851278
This comprehensive collection brings together more than 50 contributions from some of the most influential researchers in health economics. It authoritatively covers theoretical and empirical issues in health economics, with a balanced range of material on equity and efficiency in health care...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851889
Contents: Part I. Introduction -- 1. Increasing occupational health and safety in workplaces: why it matters / Ronald J. Burke -- 2. Accident underreporting in the workplace / Tahira M. Probst, Erica L. Bettac and Christopher Austin -- 3. Stress, human errors and accidents / Astrid M....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012294445
This well-documented book analyzes the possibilities and constraints of regulatory cooperation between the EU and the US (particularly California) with a specific focus on environmental protection, food safety and agriculture, biosafety and biodiversity
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850566
the largest copper producer in the world / Claes Brundenius -- Technological change and the environmental imperative : the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850878
Comprising a decade's worth of essays written since the publication of the author's pathbreaking book, The Political Economy of the Environment (2002), this volume discusses a number of diverse environmental issues through an economist's lens. Topics covered include environmental justice,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850929
'Victor Galaz opens a new pathway, critically needed, yet breathtaking. In a thoughtful and inspirational manner, he takes on the challenge of how humanity is to navigate the unprecedented scale, speed and complexity of the Anthropocene. The focus is on the interplay between rapid nonlinear...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851300
. The economics and regulation of power transmission and distribution : the developed world case / Lullit Getachew and Mark …, regulation, security, energy efficiency, new technologies and climate change are also discussed. The International Handbook on …. Natural gas and electricity markets / W.D. Walls -- 21. Incentive regulation of energy networks / Thomas Weyman-Jones -- 22 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851493
How did climate change become an economic issue? Why is economic discourse so influential on the public policy of climate change? How can it best contribute to the scientific and public debates? Nine eminent scholars explain in this book both how economics has changed environmental understanding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851724
environmental taxation scholars from around the world, this timely volume covers a range of hotly debated subjects including carbon …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851949