Forest Resource Economics and Finance is intended for undergraduate forestry students, but practicing foresters and policy analysts will also find it a useful reference. The text emphasizes economics as a way of thinking in which we compare added costs and benefits of actions in order to maximize net benefits. With the basics of capital theory, readers learn how to evaluate forestry investments in a way that embraces important environmental factors. Another key feature is a focus on analyzing current conflicts and tradeoffs that will continue to be prominent forestry issues in the 21st century: free market policies versus different levels of government intervention, economic development versus environmental conservation, private property rights versus public amenity rights, and timber versus non-timber outputs. This text also addresses additional topics not often found in other forest economic books including: economics of non-clearcutting management systems, economics of forest damage, risk analysis, inflation, environmental economics, capital budgeting, and regional economics. Add to this a micro-economics review, multiple-use and non-market good analysis, optimal capital management, benefit/cost analysis, timber supply and demand issues, appraisal and valuation, forest industry economics, and world forestry issues, and you have the most comprehensive forest economics text on the market. In addition to new and updated figures throughout the text, this newly-revised second edition provides an overview of important trends in the modern timber industry including advancements in engineered wood, international trade, global environmental issues, as well as community forestry and agroforestry.

Perfect for the first course in Forest Economics, this text emphasizes economics as a way of thinking in which added costs and benefits of action are compared in order to maximize net benefits. Geared for those students with an economic background (microeconomics preferred), Klemperer has focused on solving basic economic problems forestry analysts encounter, as well as discussing enough economic theory to understand the solutions. Because of that, the basics in capital theory are interwoven and students learn how to evaluate forestry investments in a way which embraces important environmental factors.

This book is intended for undergraduate forestry students, but practicing foresters andpolicy analysts will also fi nd it a useful reference. The text emphasizes economics asa way of thinking in which we compare added costs and benefi ts of actions in order tomaximize net benefi ts. With the basics of capital theory, readers learn how to evaluateforestry investments in a way that embraces important environmental factors. Anotherkey feature is a focus on analyzing current confl icts and tradeoffs that will continue tobe prominent forestry issues in the 21st century: free market policies versus differentlevels of government intervention, economic development versus environmentalconservation, private property rights versus public amenity rights, and timber versusnon-timber outputs. This text also addresses additional topics not often found in otherforest economic books including: economics of non-clearcutting management systems,economics of forest damage, risk analysis, infl ation, environmental economics, capitalbudgeting, and regional economics. Add to this a micro-economics review, multipleuseand non-market good analysis, optimal capital management, benefi t/cost analysis,timber supply and demand issues, appraisal and valuation, forest industry economics,and world forestry issues, and you have the most comprehensive forest economicstext on the market. In addition to new and updated fi gures throughout the text, thisnewly-revised second edition provides an overview of important trends in the moderntimber industry including advancements in engineered wood, international trade,global environmental issues, as well as community forestry and agroforestry.

Umfassendes und komplexes Grundlagenwissen, kompakt, kritisch und praxisnah auf den Punkt gebracht: • Individualmedizin und Bevölkerungsgesundheit (Public Health) • Gesundheit und Krankheit: Theorien und Modelle • Evidenzbasierte berufliche Praxis • Epidemiologie, Forschungsmethoden, Gesundheitsberichterstattung • Prävention und Gesundheitsförderung • Ungleichheiten der Gesundheit. • Gesundheitssystem und Gesundheitspolitik Für die 4. Auflage wurden alle Kapitel vollständig überarbeitet und aktualisiert. Website des Autors zum Buch: www.sozmad.de Mit Geleitworten von Rolf Rosenbrock, Eckart von Hirschhausen und Michael Marmot.

Interessenkonflikte sind ein schwieriges Thema in der Medizin: Sehr viele Forschungsvorhaben werden vonseiten der Industrie unterstützt, so dass bei Publikationen schnell der Verdacht eines Interessenkonflikts aufkommt. Aber auch niedergelassene Ärzte und ihre Besucher vom pharmazeutischen Außendienst können von solchen Konflikten betroffen sein. In dem Band werden die Hintergründe und Lösungsmöglichkeiten bei Interessenkonflikten aus interdisziplinärer Perspektive beleuchtet.

In Kliniken, in der medizinischen und sozialen Rehabilitation sowie in der Behinderten- und Altenhilfe und vielen weiteren Handlungsfeldern spielt die gesundheitsbezogene Soziale Arbeit eine große Rolle. Das umfassende Handbuch vermittelt das relevante Wissen sowohl für die Soziale Arbeit im Gesundheitswesen wie auch für den Gesundheitsbezug im Sozialwesen. Das Werk orientiert sich an den aktuellen Qualifikationsrahmen, Fachkonzepten und dem Kerncurriculum der Sozialen Arbeit. Es bietet einen fundierten Überblick über theoretische und methodische Aspekte, rechtliche, gesundheits- und sozialpolitische Perspektiven und nicht zuletzt die vielen verschiedenen Praxisfelder gesundheitsbezogener Sozialer Arbeit. Neu ab der zweiten Auflage sind neben einigen Aktualisierungen die neuen Unterkapitel zu den Themen "Infektionsschutz in der Sozialen Arbeit", "aktuelle gesellschaftliche Trends" und "Kompetenzen der gesundheitsbezogenen Arbeit".

Den Gesundheitszustand von Individuen und der Bevölkerung zu verbessern - damit befassen sich verschiedene Berufsgruppen an unterschiedlichen Orten im System der gesundheitlichen und sozialen Versorgung. Wo im System befinde ich mich? Welche theoretischen Annahmen liegen meiner Arbeit und der Arbeit anderer Berufsgruppen zugrunde? Wie entwickle ich eine wirkungsvolle, evidenzbasierte berufliche Praxis? Diese und weitere Fragen hilft dieses Buch zu beantworten. Ziel ist die Vermittlung eines Wissens, das zur Weiterentwicklung der gesundheitlichen und sozialen Versorgung motiviert und befähigt: - Basiswissen Epidemiologie und evidenzbasierte Praxis - Modelle von Krankheit und Gesundheit - Prävention und Gesundheitsförderung - sozial bedingte Ungleichheit der Gesundheit - Struktur und Funktion des Gesundheitswesens.

Spawned by the current interest in revising Oregon's Forest Conservation Act, this study defines the forestry regulation problem and outlines theoretical approaches to its solution. Unregulated private forestry is found to present opportunities for government intervention, the gains from which could exceed the losses. Proposed is a public goal of maximizing net satisfactions from Oregon's private forest lands, subject to specified constraints and assumptions This goal is derived in a chapter on welfare economics. Following an evaluation of past regulation goals and approaches, the study discusses guidelines for regeneration and logging regulations consistent with the assumed regulatory objective In a full employment economy it appears that public regulation of private forestry is which the unregulated market would attain (ignoring non-wood benefits). However, government leasing of private land for wood production does provide a possibility of increased satisfactions from wood output. Upon considering non-market forest benefits and undesirable side-effects of logging, welfare-increases from intervention are shown to be possible. After reviewing the concept of optimal levels of spill-over effects, the study points out the possibility that optimal levels of nonmarket damages could depend on whether the liability for damage reduction is placed on the victims or the damager. Considering both liability viewpoints, a scheme for determining optimal regeneration regulations is outlined for cases where non-market values are at stake. Approaches to optimizing levels of external non-market damages from logging are then examined under each liability scheme, considering actions causing changes in single or joint benefits. The importance of distinguishing between mutually exclusive and additive management practices is illustrated. Forestry-caused environmental changes discussed under nonmarket benefits include variations in water siltation and temperature, fish and big game populations, and scenic beauty. The study aims to assist economists advising planners of forest practices legislation and administrative regulations. Much of the information presented would be useful in designing such intervention today to approach the study's assumed regulatory goal. Other more detailed decision guides are proposed for research to determine optimal regulations on study areas. Broad application of such research results could increase welfare by a greater amount than could preliminary regulations designed immediately. Throughout the study, emphasis is placed upon the need for, and possibility of, making incremental analyses comparing marginal benefits and costs even when these marginal quantities are in different units. Evaluation of regulatory alternatives is left to decision makers, the study simply illustrates ways of arraying and comparing alternative.