Economic geography

Mining and geological survey work in Jamaica goes back several hundred years and was initiated by the Europeans when they colonized the Island.

The purpose of this book is to present a new proposal for landscape management labor accounts.

by Elisabeth Mann Borgese Founder and Honorary President International Ocean Institute Adalberto Vallega has been, for decades, a master and great teacher of integrated coastal management and Mediterranean cooperation.

The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.

The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.

The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.

This book investigates the multifaceted relationships between knowledge structures, technology, geography, and regional science.

Population ageing has been going on for many decades, but population shrinking is a rather new phenomenon.

Obwohl der Kreuzfahrtenmarkt deutschland- und weltweit boomt, sind Flusskreuzfahrten im Vergleich zu Hochseekreuzfahrten kaum wissenschaftlich erforscht.

This book acquaints the reader with the critical changes in India's economy and society amidst the unprecedented pandemic outbreak of COVID-19, which has been devastating by breaking all prior records of illness and fatality.

This book examines regional responses to marginality by highlighting social innovation, local capacity and new path formations in what are often seen as economically weak regions where policy and institutional considerations play a key role.

The phenomenon of international seaport administration is the subject of this book.

Lack of credit access is severe in low income and poor families that are normally considered to have fewer opportunities to borrow from banks due to insufficient valuable assets for collateral.

This book is an attempt to bridge the academic discipline of economic geography with the professional field of economic development.

A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2022: Politics * Winner of the 2024 Hayek Book Prize, Manhattan InstituteHailed by the Wall Street Journal as one of the best books of 2022, The Myth of American Inequality demonstrates that the federal government egregiously overstates the degree of inequality and poverty in the world's wealthiest nation.

Assembling Export Markets explores the new frontier regions of the global fresh produce market that has emerged in Ghana over the past decade.

This book focuses on the relationship between the auto industry and the built environment at multiple scales, a topic of particular interest now as the industry is going through a period of major transformation.

Rising levels of global inequality and migrant flows are both critical global challenges.

In this updated edition of a groundbreaking text, concepts such as energy return on investment (EROI) provide powerful insights into the real balance sheets that drive our "e;petroleum economy.

The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.

This book is part of a five-volume set that explores sustainability in textile industry practices globally.

This book will be of interest to scholars and students of Asian studies, cultural industries, economic geography, and related areas of study.

What exactly is spatial inequality?

This book explores how integrated management of environmental resources via a nexus approach can help in achieving the respective Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

This book is part of a five-volume set that explores sustainability in textile industry practices globally.

Globalization is a dominant feature and force in the contemporary world, impacting all areas of business, economics, and society.

Handbook of Industrial Organization, Volume Four highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters written by an international board of expert authors.

The second volume of this handbook develops on and extends the discussion in the successful first volume, published in 2012.

The Handbook of Regional Science is a multi-volume reference work providing a state-of-the-art knowledge on regional science composed by renowned scientists in the field.

This book presents a series of research articles written over the past four decades by leading economists George J.

This book is the first to give a comprehensive and detailed overview of the complete geography of Albania in English.

This volume in the celebrated Critical Introductions to Geography series introduces readers to the vibrant discipline of economic geography.

Northern Ireland's problems are rooted in physical and historical geography: small resource base, peripheral location, violent conquest, repression and ruthless emargination of the native population by the Protestant settlers.

This book looks at marginality from a less conventional perspective by analyzing complex social, cultural, political and economic relations between the aspects of globalization and various forms of marginalization.

Metropolitan areas with a high concentration of headquarters from diverse industries stand out as influential, dynamic economies.

The lifestyles and socio-economic status that are prevalent in regions of the world with limited resources form the background for the unique features of neoplastic diseases in these areas, where the majority of the world population lives.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the pre-modern economic history of Central Asia and the Silk Road, covering several millennia.

Global perspective on how institutional factors facilitate or hamper the flows of information and knowledge.

The economic liberalization of India, changes in global structures, and the rapid emergence of India on the global landscape have been accompanied by the dramatic rise in popular, public, and elite discourses that offer the promise to imagine India.

Millionsof people are already affected by weather-related shocks every year in WestAfrica and climate change is highly likely to increase these threats.

This book presents a series of research articles written over the past four decades by leading economists George J.

Israeli-Palestinian Water Issues - From Conflict To Cooperation This book Israeli-Palestinian Water Issues- From Conflict to Coope- tion authored by a group of leading Palestinian, Israeli and international water experts is a unique and timely document illustrating the imp- tance of mutual understanding, respect and amity among peoples d- ing a difficult period of stress, whose leaders, sadly, have not yet found the way of resolving the conflicts between them and of living in peace with each other.

Athens, Greece May Day 2010.

In recent years, the contemporary social sciences have again turned their attention to space and places.

The economic downturn that began in 2008, the most severe in decades, has hit older Americans hard.

The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.

With a critical focus on US-Latin American encounters, the book analyses geopolitical issues from a post-colonial perspective.