This book provides a unique synthesis of concepts and tools to examine natural resource, socio-economic, legal, policy and institutional issues that are important for managing urban growth into the future. The book will particularly help the reader to understand the current issues and challenges...

This book explores a new framework of Adaptive Water Management (AWM) for evaluating existing approaches in urban water management. It highlights the need to adopt multidisciplinary strategies in water management while providing an in-depth understanding of institutional interactions amongst...

This book examines the challenge of reform of the urban water supply sector in developing countries, based on case studies of state-owned water companies in Ghana, India, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe. The growing public private partnership for urban water supply is analyzed, focussing on the...

A detailed exploration of the influence and utility of Thomas Malthus' model of population growth and economic changes in Europe since the nineteenth century. This important contribution to current discussions on theories of economic growth includes discussion of issues ranging from mortality...

This book provides a comprehensive, theory-based analysis of current issues in population economics. It addresses the most important problems caused by demographic changes using the popular overlapping generations growth model by Samuelson and Diamond. Taking into account families’ fertility...

Komparative Perspektive -- Makropolitische & rechtliche Perspektive -- Konsumentenseitige & logistische Perspektive -- Gesundheitswirtschaftliche Perspektive -- Finanzwirtschaftliche & mathematische Perspektive -- Personalpolitische Perspektive -- Personalmanagement-Perspektive --...

In this book the author investigates the impact of demographic change on economic growth. As a result of the current financial crisis, a new view on economics has been demanded by various scientists. The author provides such a new view on economic growth, using a methodology of system dynamics....

Demographische Entwicklung - Herausforderung für eine nachhaltige Wettbewerbsfähigkeit -- Beschreibung und Analyse des demographischen Wandels -- Konzepte der internationalen Wettbewerbsfähigkeit einer Volkswirtschaft -- Implikationen demographischer Dynamik für die Entwicklung deutscher...

Reviews standard economic growth models concentrating on the relationship between population ageing and economic growth and develop a growth model with endogenous human capital and endogenous fertility. This work uses this model to analyse the effects of education policy and family policy on...