Economic geography

This book presents a socio-economic and livelihood analysis of agriculturally-dependent communities of Mizoram, the eastern extension of the Himalaya, using the sustainable livelihood approach.

This edited volume discuses urban transport issues, policies, and initiatives in twelve of the world's major emerging economies - Brazil, China, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Mexico, Nigeria, Russia, South Africa, Turkey, and Vietnam - countries with large populations that have recently experienced large changes in urban structure, motorization and all the associated social, economic, and environmental impacts in positive and negative senses.

This book provides an insightful and critical assessment of the state of Canadian water governance and policy.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the tourism market development in Central and Eastern European countries.

This book focuses on peri-urban development processes in Africa, with special emphasis on Zimbabwe.

The book outlines how cooperatives can be used as a tool for development and reconciliation in post-conflict contexts.

This volume describes the construction of the territorial identity of the southern end of South America and analyzes the cartographic territorialization of Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego and the "e;Terra Australis"e; continent.

Employing a practice theoretical approach, this study centers on how German multinational enterprises transfer three selected production-related training practices to their subsidiaries in emerging economies: onboarding of new employees, shop floor inducting of machine operators, and German-style dual apprenticeship training for specialized technicians.

This book introduces the Internet through a systematic geographical interpretation, thus shedding light on the Internet as a spatial entity.

The book presents the lectures delivered during a short course held at Urbino University in summer 2015 on qualitative theory of dynamical systems, included in the activities of the COST Action IS1104 "e;The EU in the new economic complex geography: models, tools and policy evaluation"e;.

This book presents a comprehensive study of adoption and diffusion of technology in developing countries in a historical perspective.

This is a multi-disciplinary scientific monograph referring to urban geography, urban regions management, event studies, tourism geography, cultural anthropology and sociology.

This book presents a compendium of the urban layout maps of 2-mile square downtown areas of more than one hundred cities in developed and developing countries-all drawn at the same scale using high-resolution satellite images of Google Maps.

This contributed volume applies spatial and space-time econometric methods to spatial interaction modeling.

This book comprises the historical overview of migration processes in Kyrgyzstan, contemporary migration trends in international migration and various social, economic and political impacts of migration.

This unique book focuses on the hybridization of grassroots participation in planning, implementing, and developing gender-responsive budgeting.

This volume discusses how the German armed forces made effective use of military geologists to assist their fortification of the Channel Islands after their capture from the British in 1940.

This study provides an overview of how the Bangladeshi leather value chain is organised and governed.

This book explores the relations between the EU and the BRICS in the areas of politics, economic development, trade and security.

The objective of this book is to analyze changes in the landscape of Czechoslovakia / the Czech Republic since the first half of the 19th century.

Drawing on more than 30 case studies from around the world, this book offers a multitude of examples for improving the governance of small-scale fisheries.

The challenge of growth in transport, especially in freight transport, and scarce resources in money, landscape and local opposition against new infrastructure investment require new solutions from transport policy.

This book offers a fascinating overview of the challenges posed by the world's new geostrategic order and likely future directions.

This book introduces the reader to local development economics and policy, with a special focus on the place-based paradigm that covers its justification, its difficulties and the types of public intervention that it suggests.

This book examines and clarifies key aspects of regional branding with the special focus of inter-regional brands.

This book investigates the socio-economic impacts of Climate Change in the Asia-Pacific region.

This book presents a series of studies on the socio-economic impacts of tourism, with a special focus on the determinants of tourism competitiveness at the destination level.

This book offers an innovative approach to the analysis of the current crisis in the South China Sea.

The uneven geographical distribution of economic activities is a huge challenge worldwide and also for the European Union.

This briefs provides foundations of both community wellbeing and community development, and the relationships between the two areas, including both similarities and differences.

This book aims to promote the synergistic usage of advanced computational methodologies in close relationship to geospatial information across cities of different scales.

The evaluation of public policies is of paramount importance for modern policy making, especially in a period of severe budget constraints.

The book focuses on food security highlighting the role of indigenous knowledge and scientific research in addressing the plight of poor small-scale agricultural producers.

Industrial and technology parks are commonly regarded as a policy panacea.

Technological innovation is fundamental to firm performance and economic prosperity.

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Increasingly, Australia's agriculturalists are looking to the nation's north to escape the decline in southern Australia's water and soil resources.

Against the background of realities of underdevelopment and economic growth, environmental pressures and global governance challenges, this volume presents a broad picture of contemporary issues in African development.

This book discusses the political and economic history and geography of Georgia, the problems it has faced, and how it has overcome and is still overcoming them.

The Andes are attracting global interest again: they hold valuable mineral resources, tourists appreciate their great natural beauty and the diversity of indigenous cultures, climbers scale rock and ice faces, while many others are intrigued by regional political developments, such as the Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela or the almost unfettered hegemony of the neoliberal economic model in Chile.

The geography of networks and R&D collaborations, in particular the spatial dimension of interactions between organisations performing joint R&D, have attracted a burst of attention in the last decade, both in the scientific study of the networks and in the policy sector.

Since the late 1990s, there have been broad discussions concerning the rapid rise of the creative economy.

The extraordinary stories of low-income women living in Sao Paulo, industrial case studies and the details of three squatter settlements, and communities in the periphery researched in Simone Buechler's book, Labor in a Globalizing City, allow us to better understand the period of economic transformation in Sao Paulo from 1996 to 2003.

This work aims to provide unique insights into the multidisciplinary research on spatial disparities from an unconventional point of view.

This encyclopedia is the most comprehensive and updated source of reference in tourism research and practice.

Nestle's Moga factory was set up in 1961 and comprises of the primary milk collection area for Nestle's operations.

This unique, engaging, and highly authoritative volume enlightens readers on changes needed in the way society accesses, provides, and uses water.

The book provides conceptual and empirical insights into the complex relationship between knowledge flows and regional growth in the EU.

For small-scale fisheries around the world, the Blue Growth and Blue Economy initiatives may provide sustainable development, but only insofar as they align with the global consensus enshrined in the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication.

This book is a rare collection of reflective and reflexive stories that reveal how seasoned academics, agents of grassroots social change, leaders and journalists transformed and shaped the development landscape in eastern and southern Africa.