Sustainable development and innovation in the energy sector

Almost every energy scenario assumes an enormous growth in the demand for energy in the coming decades. Meanwhile, at international conferences and other venues, the primary concern is massive reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, especially of the CO2 produced by fossil-fuel energy consumption. Experts also ...

The future of nuclear power

During the last century, nuclear power has been established as a reliable source of energy in the major industrialised countries. It has recently enjoyed a revival in attention and research due to the environmental concerns surrounding current conventional energy sources. Issues of regulation and safety ...

Achieving a sustainable global energy system

identifying possibilities using long-term energy scenarios

Sustainable development and global climate change have figured prominently in scientific analysis and international policymaking since the early 1990s. This book formulates technology strategies that will lead to environmentally sustainable energy systems, based on an analysis of global climate change issues using the concept of ...

Integrated renewable energy for rural communities

planning guidelines, technologies and applications

More than two billion people worldwide have currently no access to grid electricity or other efficient energy supply. This is one third of humanity and the majority live in rural areas. The productivity and health of these people are diminished by reliance on traditional fuels ...

Trade and energy

the gas and electricity sectors

Our consumption of electricity and gas is growing. Equally steady is the growth of transborder trade and the need for investment in both sectors. In view of these phenomena, the question as to the legal framework for such transactions arises. Which problems appear, where are ...

La economía del hidrógeno

la creación de la red energética mundial y la redistribución del poder en la Tierra

Cuando se agote el petróleo-La próxima gran revolución económica En La economía del hidrógeno, Jeremy Rifkin nos acompaña, en un viaje revelador, a otra gran era comercial de la historia. Rifkin prevé el nacimiento de una nueva economía basada en el hidrógeno, que cambiará radicalmente ...

Petroamérica vs. ALCA

conversaciones con Luis Bilbao

"Nosotros no hemos hecho ningún acuerdo con el Fondo Monetario Internacional, no hemos aceptado ninguna imposición de ningún centro de poder económico mundial; hemos aplicado nuestras medicinas, nuestros métodos; no hemos congelado salarios, todo lo contrario; no hemos dejado de pagar la deuda interna, hemos ...

Gambling in America

costs and benefits

Gambling in America carefully breaks new ground by developing analytical tools to assess the benefits and costs of the economic and social changes introduced by casino gambling in monetary terms, linking them to individual households' utility and well-being. Since casinos are associated with unintended and ...

Grandes especialistas no alimentarios

análisis del fenómeno con especial referencia a la C.A de Madrid

Call of the mall

The author of the international bestseller Why We Buy -- praised by The New York Times as "a book that gives this underrated skill the respect it deserves" -- now takes us to the mall, a place every American has experienced and has an opinion about. Paco ...

Operations research and health care

a handbook of methods and applications

The decision technologies, tools and theories of Operations Research and Management Sciences have long been applied to a wide range of issues and problems within health care. To date, however, there has been no single handbook that synthesizes the wide applicability of such techniques. The ...

Health information management

integrating information technology in health care work

Featuring case studies and practitioner perspectives, this is an accessible textbook that combines theoretical backgrounds and starting points with practice-oriented guidelines and advice on the best methods for bringing these ideas to the challenges of everyday health care management. The topics covered include: patient care ...

International health care reform

a legal, economic and political analysis

"International Health Care Reform" clearly explains the arguments in economics and justice for intervention by governments in health care markets; the structure and dynamics of health care systems; and the features of competition-oriented reform models. The book will appeal to students and researchers involved in ...

Restoring fiscal sanity

how to balance the budget

America will face persistent, annual deficits of over half a trillion dollars over the next decade. If current policies continue, these deficits will slow economic growth, reduce household incomes, and impose enormous burdens on the next generation. To address the problem, a team of Brookings ...

Health economics

fundamentals and flow of funds

A primer for the field, written by the Executive Director of the International Health Economics Association. This book offers a readable and rigorous conceptual framework for studying incentives, organizations and profits in medical care. Updated with new material on the calculation of payment rates (RBRVS ...

El merco regulador del medicamento

un análisis institucional conparado España-Estados Unidos

Essencials of health care marketing

A complete curriculum of marketing management tools and techniques, ideal for graduate and upper-level graduate courses, is contained in this text. Filled with examples from a wide array of health care providers, health systems, HMOs, physician-hospital organizations, and more, the chapters cover market research, strategy ...

Public health

what it is and how it works

This book is a straightforward introduction to the complex, multidimensional field of public health and how it functions in modern day America.

Money,politics and health care

reconstructing the federal-provincial partnership

eds.Harvey Lazar;France St-Hilaire The First Ministers' Accord on Health Care Renewal, announced in February 2003 just a few months following the release of the Romanow and Kirby reports on the future of health care in Canada, gave rise to high expectations. Many Canadians ...

Health Program Planning and evaluation

a practical, systematic approach for community health

Today#s challenging health care conditions require the development of increasingly sophisticated health programs in order to compete for funding and support. The influencing forces of federal legislation, rigid public health goals, an emphasis on outcomes of health care and evidence-based practice, and use of ...