Marketing en ferias turísticas

Las ferias turísticas que se organizan en muchos países del mundo son instrumentos de apoyo empresarial para la promoción y venta de destinos y servicios turísticos, lo cual permite elevar las expectativas de mercado de hoteleros, restauradores y prestadores de servicios turísticos. En este libro ...

European migration

what do we know?

First, it studies migration streams since World War II, and reviews major migration policy regimes. Second, it summarizes the empirical evidence measuring wages, unemployment, and occupational choices. Third, it investigates how migrants affects the labour markets of their host countries, and evaluates econometric studies into ...

The social economics of poverty

on identities, communities, groups, and networks

This book presents a unique analysis of the moral and social dimensions of microeconomic behavior in developing countries and calls into question standard notions of rationality and many of the assumptions of neo-classical economics, showing how these are inappropriate in communities with widespread disparity in ...

El fenómeno de la inmigración en Europa

perspectivas jurídicas y económicas

Aunque la variedad de culturas es una de las riquezas de nuestro mundo, en Europa y, especialmente en algunos de los países que la forman, la convivencia de diversas culturas en un marco político común es un fenómeno, en cierto modo, inédito. Por primera vez ...

Beyond metropolis

the planning and bovernance of Asia's mega-urban region

Beyond Metropolis studies planning and governance in the regions surrounding the twelve cities in Asia with populations over ten million: Tokyo, Mumbai, Kolkata, Dhaka, Delhi, Shanghai, Jakarta, Osaka, Beijing, Karachi, Metro Manila, and Seoul. These regions are greater than cities plus suburbs: for almost all ...

La guerra contra la población

economía e ideología del control de la población

La idea de que la humanidad se está multiplicando a un ritmo acelerado y terrible es uno de los dogmas falsos de nuestra época. De ella surge la creencia ampliamente mantenida de que, a menos de una contención inmediata del crecimiento de la población por ...

Análisis económico de la inmigración en España

una propuesta de regulación

Considerando que casi dos millones de extranjeros residen en nuestro país y que esta cifra se incrementa sustancialmente cuando se trabaja con estimaciones no oficiales, no sorprende que la inmigración se perciba como uno de los mayores problemas de la sociedad española. En este contexto ...

Climate trading

development of Greenhouse Gas market

Climate Trading covers issues related to greenhouse gas emissions trading markets, including the events that lead up to the adoption of the Kyoto protocol, the development of the market-based mechanisms under the Protocol, and the emerging domestic and international emissions trading and carbon credits markets ...

Collapse

how societies choose to fail or survive

In Collapse, Jared Diamond investigates the fate of past human societies, and the lessons for our own future. What happened to the people who built the ruined temples of Angkor Wat, the long-abandoned statues of Easter Island, the crumbling Maya pyramids of the Yucatan? All ...

Environmental health

Environmental Health has established itself as the most succinct and comprehensive textbook on the subject. This extensively revised and rewritten third edition continues this tradition by incorporating new developments and by adding timely coverage of topics such as environmental economics and terrorism. As in previous ...

Business ethics and the natural environment

Business Ethics and the Natural Environment examines the present status of relations between corporate enterprise and the natural environment in the world today. #Discusses such questions as: What obligations does a corporation have toward the environment? To respect entities unprotected by law? To care about ...

Economics of industrial ecology

meterials, structural change, and spatial scales

The use of economic modeling techniques in industrial ecology research provides distinct advantages over the customary approach, which focuses on the physical description of material flows. The thirteen chapters of Economics of Industrial Ecology integrate the natural science and technological dimensions of industrial ecology with ...

Land use problems and conflicts

causes, consequences and solutions

The causes, consequences and control of land use change have become topics of enormous importance in contemporary society. Not only is urban land use and sprawl a hot-button issue, but issues of rural land use have also been in the headlines. Policy makers and citizens ...

EU enlargement and the environment

institutional change and environmental policy in Central and Eastern Europe

This volume focuses attention on key environmental and institutional changes associated with eastern expansion of the European Union, assessing and challenging prevailing views about the outcomes and processes of this historic development. Looking at four central themes - capacity changes and limitations, the EU's mixed ...

Sustainable urban development

.Vol.1: The framework and protocols for environmental assessment

Sustainable Urban Developments examines the models of sustainable development and sets out the framework for analysing urban development and the sustainability issues this gives rise to. It examines the protocols (planning, property development, design, construction and operational activities) developed to address the issues and provides ...

Environmental management and development

The continual degradation of the planet's environment is something that affects every person in every country, be it developed or developing. Statements and policies are made at international levels, but their effectiveness is questionable. Also, are techniques of environmental management (EM) used in the ...

The plain language guide to the world summit on sustainable development

The World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg in 2002 brought together thousands of delegates with the goal of mapping out the future of the global sustainable development agenda. The resulting 54-page technical document, the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation (JPOI), outlining government priorities and ...

Economic approach to environment and natural resources

This innovative, cutting-edge text takes a hands-on approach to the origins of environmental problems, their economic consequences, and the policies that address them. The text presents environmental economic theory and methods in the first five chapters and then applies and reinforces them with illustrations and ...

Cradle to cradle (de la cuna a la cuna)

rediseñando la forma en que hacemos las cosas

"Reducir, reutilizar, reciclar" El libro es un manifiesto que recoge una filosofía y práctica radicalmente diferentes sobre la eco- efectividad - temas de industria (manufactura) y medioambiente. A través de la elaboración de todos sus principios desde la experiencia del(re) diseño de cualquier cosa los ...

The natural advantage of nations

business opportunities, innovation and governance in the 21st century

This book is the definitive and most comprehensive guide to modeling derivatives in C++ today. Providing readers with not only the theory and math behind the models, as well as the fundamental concepts of financial engineering, but also actual robust object-oriented C++ code, this is ...