Economy & Finance

Focuses on providing answers to the question of how food production and consumption systems can stay within the limits of the carrying capacity of our natural environment. This work also considers the challenges of food security and nutrition in the context of sustainability and a growing world population.

The first complete text suitable for use in introductory Business Analytics courses, this book establishes a national syllabus for an emerging first course at an MBA level. There are three levels of knowledge that those who work with business analytics need to understand: encoding, solution design, and analytics: post-solution analysis. This boo

Explaining how to identify and manage the many risks associated with conducting business abroad, this book provides the real-world insight needed to anticipate the impact of change on business operations. It presents case studies and practical examples that demonstrate how these concepts apply to every day operations. Considering

This book explores risk communication research with a focus on new theoretical perspectives, research findings, and applied goals. It reflects on a broad range of innovative theoretical perspectives, methodological approaches and empirical areas. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Risk Research.

This book explains how to use Lean principles to drive innovation and strategic portfolio planning. It outlines simple yet powerful visual Lean tools that can enhance idea generation and product development. It discusses customer value in the form of the benefits customers desire and walks readers through the processes of using Lean techniques t

Governments are increasingly focusing on designing ways and means of connecting across government ministries and departments, across jurisdictions and sectors in order to solve policy problems or enable more efficient and effective policy development. Using the most international research, this book examines the promise, barriers and tensions wh

Providing a flexible framework for data analysis and model building, this text focuses on the statistical methods and models that can help predict the expected value of an outcome, dependent, or response variable. It offers a sound introduction to general and generalized linear models using the popular and powerful likelihood techniques. The aut

This book addresses the intersection of entrepreneurship, innovation and sustainability (EIS), presenting high-quality research illuminating the relationship between the three fields.

This book provides keen insights about emerging technological and financial developments in the way that presidential elections are conducted. It also demystifies the 2008 election and extracts lessons for future elections.This book was published as a special issue of Journal of Legislative Studies.

This edited volume presents and reflects upon empirical evidence of 'sustainability'-induced and -related transition in food practices. The material collected in the various chapters contributes to our understanding of the ways in which ideas and preferences, sociotechnological developments and changes in the governance of food interact and beco

Drawing on case studies from healthcare financial management, this book integrates prose, managerial applications, and regulatory policies and perspectives with real-world case studies, models, checklists, and reports as well as charts, tables, and diagrams. The book covers topics such as financial features of electronic medical records, financi

Mastery of quality healthcare and patient safety begins the moment clinicians and administrative staff start acquiring practical experience. The acquisition of experience includes more than sensory motor skills and basic science knowledge. It relies on effective reasoning, decision making, and communication shared by all health professional

Reflecting its reliance on fossil fuels, the electric power industry produces the majority of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. The need for a revolution in the industry becomes further apparent given that 'decarbonization' means an increasing electrification of other sectors of the economy in particular, through a switch from gasoline to electric vehicles. Of the options for producing electric power without significant greenhouse gas emissions, renewable energy is most attractive to policymakers, as it promises increased national self-reliance on energy supplies and the creation of new industries and jobs, without the safety and political concerns of nuclear power or the unproven technology of carbon capture and storage.Drawing on both economic theory and the experiences of the United States and EU member states, Harnessing Renewable Energy addresses the key questions surrounding renewable energy policies. How appropriate is the focus on renewable power as a primary tool for reducing greenhouse gas emissions? If renewable energy is given specific support, what form should that support take? What are the implications for power markets if renewable generation is widely adopted? Thorough and well-evidenced, this book will be of interest to a broad range of policymakers, the electric power industry, and economists who study energy and environmental issues.

While continuing to focus on common mathematical approaches to model credit portfolios, this second edition presents updates on model developments that have occurred since the publication of the best-selling first edition. It contains a new section on multi-period models and discusses recent developments in structured credit. Along with many wor

Over the last two decades, cost management has been an area of dynamic change and development. The Routledge Companion to Cost Management is a timely reference volume covering both practical developments and research in this area.

This book helps pharmacists and non-pharmacist managers successfully manage the challenges of the competitive pharmacy environment, enabling them to accomplish the goals of patient-focused healthcare and improved management roles in hospital-based pharmacies and retail operations. The book presents a wealth of information and management skills f

This volume brings together leading articles on the regulation of joint conduct under competition law on both sides of the Atlantic. The articles discuss the general theoretical framework that has influenced the evolution of the law and policy; cover the most relevant practical developments; provide contrasting doctrinal views and pay particular at

This new edition comes after about 15 years of development in the field of safety science and practice. The book addresses the question of how to improve risk assessments, investigations, and organizational learning inside companies in order to prevent unwanted occurrences. The book helps the reader in analyzing the subject from different scient

Many important economic and political debates, today, refer to the nature and the role of the State. In order to better understand them, this book is an attempt to place most of these debates, some schools of thought and central concepts in an historical perspective.