Economy & Finance

This book is an attempt to comprehend and compile the history, present status, and future trends of the gender roles in agriculture.

The text identifies and clarifies the clandestine methods of Results Based Safety (RBS) from Behavior Based Safety (BBS) as they function directly in opposition to each other. It will serve as an ideal text for students, and professionals in the fields of ergonomics, human factors, occupational health, and safety.

Focused on forest management and governance, this book examines two decades of experience with Adaptive Collaborative Management (ACM), assessing both its uses and improvements needed to address global environmental issues.

Operations Research methods are used frequently in every field of modern life like industry, economy and medicine. This book brings together the latest advances of these methods.

This book uses 'politics of urban knowledge' as a lens to understand how professionals, administrations, scholars, and social movements have surveyed, evaluated and theorized the city, identified problems, and shaped and legitimized practical interventions in planning and administration.

This book studies the management challenges and possibilities in sustaining Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs). It goes beyond the conventional metrics of cost-benefit analysis by drawing on fifteen case studies of diverse FPOs spread across India to fill a significant knowledge-practice gap in the domain of producer collectives.

This book presents an overview of Operations Research and Systems Engineering and takes a look into both fields on content, histories, contributions, and future directions so a sound career choice can be made for those who might be deciding on a career path.

This book deals with the pension of uncovered people in India, the informal or unorganized sector workers who contribute more than fifty percent of India's total output.

This book has a prime focus on the importance of data science in the healthcare domain. The aim of the book is to provide the future scope of these technologies in the health care domain. It will benefit research scholar, faculty, research organizations, and students to get insights into these emerging technologies in the healthcare domain.

This book discusses how to strengthen our healthcare systems and ensure sustainable community healthcare delivery through systems thinking, an approach to understanding the complex interactions of individual system elements in healthcare. It will interest those who are researching on sustainable healthcare systems, as well as policy makers.

The book focuses on problem solving for practitioners and model building for academicians under multivariate situations. This book helps readers in understanding the issues, such as knowing variability, extracting patterns, building relationships, and making objective decisions.

This book analyses the paradoxes of Pakistan's economy, meritocratic domestic policy and the role of the state and civil society. It will interest academics in South Asian Studies, in particular South Asian economics and politics.

This volume features 19 original essays on Adam Smith's conception of modernity. The contributions demonstrate the relevance of Smith as the great interpreter of modernity 250 years after the publication of The Wealth of Nations.

This book brings together the expertise of economists, legal scholars, political scientists, and sociologists in order to integrate diverse perspectives and a broad range of analytical tools in the conceptualisation of labour mobility.

Monte Carlo techniques have increasingly become a key method used in quantitative research. This book introduces engineers and scientists to the basics of using the Monte-Carlo simulation method which is used in Operations Research and other fields to understand the impact of risk and uncertainty in prediction and forecasting models.

This book argues that evolutionary economics must become evolutionary political economy. The book explores the policy implications of these innovative societies, where wealth is created but unequally distributed. The book is addressed to open-minded economists, social scientists, technologists and policy makers.

Digital Journalism and the Facilitation of Hate explores the process by which digital journalists manage the coverage of hate speech and "hate groups", and considers how digital journalists can best avoid having their work used to lend legitimacy to hate.

Notwithstanding the improved growth performance of India, development disparity across its states has widened in the first two decades of the 21st Century. This book examines development drivers of Indian states and what the necessary course corrections could be to achieve balanced regional growth.

This book provides a snapshot of building knowledge-based systems, inconsistency measures, methods for handling consistency and integrating knowledge bases. It provides the mathematical background to solve problems of restoring consistency and problems of integrating probabilistic knowledge bases.

This book critically analyses the prospects of overhauling the legal framework of climate change regulation of corporations in African state. It adopts the dilute interventionism regulatory framework to tackle the culture of regulatory resistance by corporations in Africa.

This book presents decision support tools that can be used in the early design stage to analyze the feasibility of a product and its components for remanufacturing. It also covers how to design a product specifically for remanufacturing and offers supporting case studies.

This book examines how business schools seek to honour the ambition to both teach scientifically verified theories and practically useful concepts and models, and how the tensions derived from this duality may be problematic to handle.