Life under pressure

mortality and living standards in Europe and Asia,1700-1900

This highly original book -- the first in a series analyzing historical population behavior in Europe and Asia -- pioneers a new approach to the comparative analysis of societies in the past. Using techniques of event history analysis, the authors examine 100,000 life histories in 100 ...

Inmigración y procesos de cambio

Europa y el Mediterráneo en el contexto global

Los actores institucionales, políticos, sociales y económicos necesitan espacios de reflexión donde contrastar ideas y tendencias. Inmigración y procesos de cambio es el resultado de un simposio organizado por el Instituto Europeo del Mediterráneo (IEMed) y la Universidad Pompeu Fabra (UPF), y su interés radica ...

Emigración, pobreza y desarrollo

Los movimientos migratorios constituyen un fenómeno de creciente relevancia en el mundo actual. Consideradas en su conjunto, las migraciones son un importante factor de cambio social, tanto para los países emisores como para los receptores. Si para estos últimos el reto es disponer de políticas ...

Migración e interculturalidad en Gran Bretaña, España y Alemania

La migración es un fenómeno que los Estados nacionales ya no pueden controlar ni canalizar efcazmente porque-al igual que las mercancías,los servicios y el capital-está sujeto al proceso de gloabalización,es decir,la forma de producir a nivel planetario y en tiempo real.Además ...

Fundamentos de marketing turístico

El marketing turístico tiene como objetivo la comercialización de los productos y los servicios de las organizaciones que integran el sector. Para ello se centra en las peculiaridades propias del ámbito turístico: la interrelación que existe entre las empresas y los destinos, la elevada estacionalidad ...

Postwar migration in Southern Europe, 1950-2000

an economic analysis

Managing migration promises to be one of the most difficult challenges of the 21st century. It will be even more difficult for South European countries, from which emigration has leveled off and to which immigration has become a significant economic issue. Southern Europe is close ...

The economics of an ageing population

macroeconomic issues

The Economics of an Ageing Population studies the effects of demographic transition on the economies of industrialised countries. The authors demonstrate that an ageing population does not necessarily lead to a reduction in growth, providing that the working population are more productive and save a ...

Planificación estratégica sostenible de redes territoriales

teoría y práctica

La situación de los territorios de carácter periférico requiere políticas especialmente diseñadas para lograr resultados sólidos, dadas las condiciones de la realidad económica y social actual. La planificación estratégica se ha ofrecido como un método particularmente adecuado para definir las pautas generales de tales actuaciones ...

Principles of environmental eeconomics

Can economic growth be environmentally sustainable? This crucial question goes right to the heart of environmental economics and is a matter of increasing concern globally. The first edition of this popular title was the first introductory textbook in environmental economics that truly attempted to integrate ...

Thirsty planet

strategies for sustainable water management

By the year 2025, nearly 2 billion people will live in regions or countries with absolute water scarcity. Given this global water crisis, how should the planet's water be used and managed? Current international water policy sees nature competing with human use: the task ...

Europe, globalization and sustainable development

This edited volume considers the ways in which European states and the European Union can and should organize themselves economically and socially in order to address the challenges of sustainable development. It will interest students and researchers of environmental policy and European politics. INDICE Part ...

Liberation ecologies

environment, development , social movements

At the beginning of the 21st century, the environment and the future of development continue to be issues of crucial importance. Most explanations of environmental crisis emphasize the role of population growth, thus focusing their attention on the poor. By comparison, Liberation Ecologies elaborates a ...

Environmental systems engineering and economics

Environmental Systems Engineering and Economics emphasizes the application of optimization, economics, and systems engineering to problems in environmental resources management. This senior level/graduate textbook introduces optimization theory and algorithms that have been successful in resolving water quality and groundwater management problems. Both linear programming ...

The sustainable urban development reader

The Sustainable Urban Development Reader brings together classic readings from a wide variety of sources to investigate how our cities and towns can become more sustainable. Thirty-eight selections span issues such as land use planning, urban design, transportation, ecological restoration, economic development, resource use and ...

Energy security

managing risk in a dynamic legal and regulatory environment

This volume examines energy security in a privatized, liberalized, and increasingly global energy market, in which the concept of sustainability has developed together with a higher awareness of environmental issues, but where the potential for supply disruptions, price fluctuation, and threats to infrastructure safety must ...

Environmental and resource policy for consumer durables

A recent line of research in environmental and resource economics deals with the analysis of the so-called product-related environmental policy, i.e. the regulation of certain product characteristics which are mainly determined by producers and which influence the impact of consumption goods on the environment ...

The economics of the environment and natural resources

"Lectures in Environmental and Resource Economics" covers the essential topics students need to understand environmental and resource problems and their possible solutions. Its lecture format provides an in-depth exploration of discrete topics, ideal for upper-level undergraduate, graduate or doctoral study. Each chapter depicts the key ...

Fiscalidad y medio ambiente en España

Estructurado de forma sistémica, su discurso recorre desde las generalidades teóricas que actúan de encofrado de este acervo tributario hasta ofrecer, para cada Comunidad Autónoma, de manera concisa y rigurosa los elementos esenciales de las configuraciones tributarias ambientales. No elude esta obra la arena del ...

Environmental policy and fiscal federalism

selected essays of Wallace E.Oates

Wally Oates is one of the most important scholars in both environmental economics and public finance and this new volume of his essays collects together his best recent research in both these areas, covering theory, research and policy. The first half of the book includes ...

Analysing strategic environmental assessment

towards better decision-making

Analytical Strategic Environmental Assessment (ANSEA) is an insightful new approach to environmental evaluation, based on decision theory, policy analysis and environmental considerations. These concepts, though not new in their own fields of application, are combined and integrated in an innovative fashion. This book presents recent ...