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The book is concerned with the environmental problems at the regional and global levels, such as management of waste, climate change, forest degradation, biodiversity concerns and pollution of various kinds of the environment. The thought-provoking articles focus on pressing contemporary problems and ways to deal with them. They take up the subject of environmental ethics, sustainable development needs, the nexus between trade and climate change and India’s ...
Health economics focuses on the efficiency (maximizing possible outputs from given inputs) and effectiveness (benefit from treatment or care) of resource allocation in the provisioning of health services infrastructure to meet health needs of individuals and society. Embodied in its domain is health care, which is multi-dimensional in character having such elements as public good with externalities, social merit want, private consumption good, human capital good, ...
The book ‘Air Pollution and Health’ focuses on the study of the sources of air pollutants and discusses the impact of air pollution on human health. The complete volume seeks to describe the sources of air pollution and its actual or likely impacts on health, and how human societies and their governments should respond, with particular focus on the health sector. As air pollution is a global issue affecting the earth, which is clearly evident from the U N ...
Over the past decade, a new approach to environmental analysis has developed. Industrial ecology focuses on reducing the environmental impacts arising from the production process of goods and services, and on process innovations that can significantly improve environmental performance. It is through industrial ecology that the entire lifecycle of products and services, drawing on and extending a variety of related approaches, including systems analysis, material ...