This book aims to investigate a long-term strategy for sustainable urban logistics. The literature evidence exhibits that considerable research on urban logistics lacks long-term planning and rarely considers the urban spatial development and integration of urban distribution innovations....

This book explores new frontiers in the research of economic growth and industrial reconstruction, analyzing economic growth and transitions in industrial structure in East Asia with a variety of data. First, the effects of demographic change on trade openness is analyzed empirically using the...

1. Introduction -- 2. Estate Finances and Administration -- 3. Working Relationships -- 4. Social Relationships -- 5. Politics and the Landed Estate -- 6. Social Control: Church, Charity and Education- 7. Conclusion

Familienunternehmen: Bedeutung, Ziele und Charakteristika -- Die Besteuerung von Familienunternehmen in Deutschland -- Diskutierte Entwürfe einer Vermögensteuer in Deutschland -- Agentenbasierte Simulation einer Vermögensteuer für große Familienunternehmen in Deutschland --...

1. Property Taxation, Instruments, Models, Administration, and Potential Effects -- 2. Failure and Promise of Property Taxation in Senegal -- 3. Challenges of Property Taxation in Tanzania -- 4. Financing Sustainable Local Spending and Infrastructure in China -- 5. Mexico: Failure of the...

Coal - Poland's “black gold” (yesterday) or problem (today) -- Property taxation in Poland – main legal problems -- Taxation of assets used for extraction of energy resources -- Taxation of specific asset used for the transportation and storage of energy resources -- Taxation of onshore...

Einleitung -- Policy-Paper: "Ein zukunfsfähiger Gesellschaftsvertrag mit der Landwirtschaft: Plädoyer für eine neue Agrarpolitik" -- Kurzdarstellung der Ausgangssituation: Umwelteffekte der Landwirtschaft -- Agrarpolitische Rahmenbedingungen -- SWOT-Analyse der derzeitigen Agrarpolitik aus...

1. Introduction to Biorights -- 2. Rights Based Approach in Conservation -- 3. Biorights of Commons -- 4. Biorights as a Financial Mechanism -- 5. Economics of Biorights -- 6. Biorights in Local Context -- 7. Biorights in the Climate Milieu -- 8. Biorights in Pandemic Crisis.

Population Aging and Political Economy -- Expenditure on Public Investment -- Expenditure on Education -- Expenditure on welfare -- Interregional Tax Competition -- Comparison of Japan and the US -- Concluding Remarks.