Economy & Finance

Animal Suffering and Public Relations conducts an ethical assessment of public relations, mainly persuasive communication and lobbying, as deployed by some of the main businesses involved in the animal industrial complex - the industries participating in the systematic and institutionalized exploitation of animals.

This book presents a comprehensive study of the role that the Blue Flag beach program has played around the world, considering economic, social and environmental perspectives.

This book addresses the urgent need to examine central bank policies in response to the global supply and demand shock brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic, asking whether central banks are doing enough to address inequalities and concerns around climate change and emerging technologies.

This book presents a multi-disciplinary approach for development of Recommender Systems. It explains different types of pertinent algorithms with their comparative analysis, and their role for different applications including case studies. It explains Big Data behind Recommender System, making good decision support systems, etc.

The economic and social development that Bangladesh has achieved in the last two decades has made Bangladesh a 'Development Paradox". This book explain this paradox through political economy lens.

Port Systems in Global Competition is an answer to the strong and urgent need for reviewing the relevant theories, concepts, methods, and sources that can be mobilized for the analysis of port systems.

The monograph aims to comprehensively describe Artificial Intelligence technology in three aspects: organizational, psychological, and technological in the context of increasingly bold use of this technology in management.

Drawing on modern economic theory, this book provides new insights into the economic development of ancient economies and the sustainability of their development. The book pays particular attention to the economics of hunting and gathering societies and their diversity.

This book brings together a diverse range of scholars and practitioners working at the nexus of peace and development to reflect what impact Goal 16 of the Sustainable Development Goals has made, or may yet make, towards reducing violence in 'all its forms'.

This book covers different aspects of security implementations and challenges in IoMT and aims to bring researchers together to contribute their findings to recommend new methodologies and feasible solutions for implementing security and novel architectures in AI, machine learning and data science in the field of healthcare and IoT.

Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) is a method used by maintenance and reliability industry professionals as one of the key tools to drive improvement. This book provides a quick guide to the applications involved in performing a successful RCFA.

This book is intended to help the incoming administration and members of critical infrastructure communities to prioritize cybersecurity, combat emerging threats, craft meaningful policy, and consider modernization and nascent technologies. The book is divided into seventeen chapters that are focused on the critical infrastructure sectors.

The Routledge Handbook of Urban Logistics offers a state of the art, comprehensive overview of the discipline of urban and city logistics. The COVID-19 pandemic and the rise in internet shopping in particular has placed new demands on urban logistics which require innovative technological and policy responses.

This book examines Korea's foreign direct investment policy dynamics and importance of mutual synergy between multinational corporations and their host countries in a win-win framework. It will be of interest to policymakers, investors, and researchers on Korean and East Asian economic studies, FDI promotion.

This book provides unique multidisciplinary approach for exploring the potential contribution of AI and digital technologies in enabling global healthcare systems to respond to urgent twenty first century challenges. Deep analysis has been made regarding telemedicine using big data, deep learning, robotics, mobile and remote applications.

The book follows a medical cyber-physical systems' paradigm to handle the dimensionality conundrum stemming from image acquisition, image modality/resolution/representation, subspace decomposition, compressed sensing, and communications constraints.

This book is a novel contribution, combining recent theoretical developments and empirical contributions, as well as the recent and latest trends and challenges on the issue of Forgotten Spaces. It fills a gap in current research, adding empirical evidence about these places, as well as about the role of their actors.

Business Analytics, is driven by an increasing demand from the real world. This book reviews advances in data analytics and business intelligence that assists industries in problem-solving exercises, with a view to driving competitive advantage.

The property market was a key and dynamic economic sector in Ancient Rome. This book takes a multisided insight into real estate as the subject of short- and long-term economic investments, of speculative and businesses ventures, of power abuses and inequalities, of social aspirations, but also of essential housing needs.