The extent to which the federal and state governments regulate the death care industry -- funeral homes, cemeteries, crematories, pre-need funeral ...

Green marketing -- a marketing strategy highlighting the environmental attributes of a product -- dates back to the 1970s but began to flourish in ...

High petroleum and gasoline prices, concerns over global climate change, and the desire to promote domestic rural economies have greatly increased ...

Perceptions that the pace of new-drug development has slowed and that the pharmaceutical industry is highly profitable have sparked concerns that s...

The potential of environmental resources as tourist resources and the impact of tourism on these resources are an open research area and, because o...

The potential of environmental resources as tourist resources and the impact of tourism on these resources are an open research area and, because o...

Rice and Rice Straw: Production, Cultivation and Uses opens with a discussion on rice straw, a substance rich in polysaccharides with a high lignin...

A mileage-based road user charge would involve assessing owners of individual vehicles on a per-mile basis for the distance the vehicle is driven. ...

The current division between industrialised and developing countries/societies is based on relatively recent paradigms of mankind's growth which ha...

When designing a cap-and-trade program, one of the more controversial and challenging questions for policymakers is how, to whom, and for what purp...

Stakeholders in the international economy have long considered energy a crucial aspect of national sovereignty - a commodity inherently political i...

This book examines the role of renewable energy certificates in new renewable energy projects. For more than a decade, renewable energy certificate...

Energy tax policy involves the use of one of the government's main fiscal instruments, taxes (both as an incentive and as a disincentive) to alter ...

Geodiversity is a topic widely researched around the globe and numerous studies have been developed in recent years based on geodiversity and relat...

This book fills a gap between theory and practice in the field of the rural communities’ research. The book consists of fourteen chapters which ana...

Russian oil and natural gas industries are increasingly important players in the global energy market, particularly in Europe and Eurasia. Another ...

Key drinking water issues include problems caused by specific contaminants, such as the gasoline additive methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE), perch...

Recent foreign air disasters involving Boeing 737 Max airplanes have raised international concern about the safety of that aircraft and passenger a...

Speeding is defined as exceeding posted speed limits or driving too fast for conditions. This is a behaviour that some drivers engage in without re...

The U.S. beef industry has recalled over 23 million pounds of beef owing to contamination from pathogenic strains of Shiga toxin-producing E.coli (...

Pacific salmon are among the dominant fish groups and the main consumers of forage resources in the upper layer of the subarctic Pacific. In the la...

This book provides a good mix of both basic and applied topics in the hope that it will be useful and of interest to scientists working on finfish....

Saudi Arabia, a monarchy ruled by the Saud dynasty, enjoys special importance in much of the international community because of its unique associat...