<i>¡°Even with the latest and best vehicles, machinery, technology and buildings, if we continue to use resources irresponsibly ¡ª if we continue to waste food, water and energy ¡ª we are not even in the race.¡±</i> This book looks at the sustainable issues and the accompanying opportunities,...

Services markets remain highly regulated and international trade and investment is restricted. Previous works have identified the scope for significant gains from trade, yet those results are often debated and the progress on reform has been slow. Parts I and II in <i>Priorities and Pathways in...</i>

This book presents a state-of-the-art evaluation of the benefits and costs of behind-the-border services reform. It introduces new, second-generation methods for quantifying regulatory barriers and applies those methods to a wide range of services sectors ¡ª financial, infrastructure and...

This book shows the breadth and depth of stochastic programming applications. All the papers presented here involve optimization over the scenarios that represent possible future outcomes of the uncertainty problems. The applications, which were presented at the 12th International Conference on...

This book is an up-to-date primer covering the most important subjects in energy economics, with particular attention paid to oil, natural gas, and nuclear energy, and without an excessive amount of mathematics. The first three survey chapters constitute an introductory (and mostly...