Economic geography

This edited collection examines the formation of urban networks and role of gateways in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern world.

This book seeks to deepen readers' understanding of world history by investigating urbanization and the evolution of urban systems, as well as the urban world, from the perspective of historical analysis.

This volume documents recent efforts to track the transformation and trajectory of silver during the early modern period, from its origins in ores located on either side of the Atlantic to its use as currency in the financial centres of continental Europe.

This book examines "e;New Localism' - exploring how communities have turned towards more local concerns: my street, my town, my state, as an expression of dissatisfaction with globalization.

New Zealand and Australia are broadly considered to be countries in which sustainability and responsibility discourses are being pursued by governments and business alike, and in which incentives and initiatives are helping confront and overcome sustainability-related challenges.

This monograph offers a unique conceptual bridge between economic geography and Middle Eastern political economy.

This monograph offers a unique conceptual bridge between economic geography and Middle Eastern political economy.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the role of gateway cities in contemporary circuits of global production.

This book provides a unique and comprehensive assessment of the changes that have been taking place in the Himalayas.

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

This book examines rural tourism across three different contexts, acknowledging the complexity of rural places.

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

Development largely depends on how given places participate in global economic processes.

This book discusses how tourism between neighboring countries like Poland and Germany is hindered despite the Schengen Treaty.

This book illustrates and explains the consequences of neoliberal reform on rural economies.

This monograph explores the nature of corruption around the world from a geographic perspective.

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.

This book looks at the uncharted territory between innovation activities and place making efforts to cultivate them.

This book focuses on irrigation sources together with water management for agricultural development in Uttar Pradesh state of India.

This monograph explores the nature of corruption around the world from a geographic perspective.

Focusing on five key themes - hydrocarbons, electricity, mining, social license to operate, and arbitration/dispute resolution- via in-depth country and regional case studies, this book seeks to capture the contrasting and sometimes conflicting trends in energy governance in Latin America as it wrestles with a dependence on fossil fuels whilst shifting toward a low carbon future.

In March of 2018, 44 African countries signed the African Continental Free Trade Area agreement (AfCFTA) to launch what is considered as the largest free trade area in the world.

Sustainable capitalism is more than a response to the environmental crisis.

A Study on Globalizing Cities is the latest masterpiece by Zhou Zhenhua, a famous Chinese economist, who closely tracks the theoretical study of global cities and is actively engaged in the strategic research of Shanghai's development.

For almost a decade, economists Kevin M.

This book discusses the smallholder tea economy and regional development opportunities in India.

This book discusses the smallholder tea economy and regional development opportunities in India.

Despite the strong economic growth of the last decades, our modern global society is facing the existential threat of climate change.

Despite the strong economic growth of the last decades, our modern global society is facing the existential threat of climate change.

Turkey's economy is a complex mix of modern industry, a traditional agricultural sector, and a rapidly growing private sector.

Recent state-led urbanization initiatives in China have drastically transformed Chinese rural society - closing the urban-rural divide as well as redistributing wealth and altering the flows of social mobility.

Recent state-led urbanization initiatives in China have drastically transformed Chinese rural society - closing the urban-rural divide as well as redistributing wealth and altering the flows of social mobility.

Our use or rather overuse of natural resources is having an increasingly drastic and adverse effect on the environment.

Creating Chinese Urbanism describes the landscape of urbanisation in China, revealing the profound impacts of marketisation on Chinese society and the consequential governance changes at the grassroots level.

Fiscal crises have cascaded across much of the developing world with devastating results, from Mexico to Indonesia, Russia and Argentina.

Planetary Mine rethinks the politics and territoriality of resource extraction, especially as the mining industry becomes reorganized in the form of logistical networks, and East Asian economies emerge as the new pivot of the capitalist world-system.

The people of China and its (widely differing) regions have not all benefited equally from the country's rapid increase in prosperity, and the speed and timing of increases have varied across time and space.

The people of China and its (widely differing) regions have not all benefited equally from the country's rapid increase in prosperity, and the speed and timing of increases have varied across time and space.

Competition between democratic and authoritarian systems is playing out in global cities, where real property rights influence regime legitimacy and economic performance.

Competition between democratic and authoritarian systems is playing out in global cities, where real property rights influence regime legitimacy and economic performance.

The term "e;market"e; originally portrayed a public space for economic transactions but the term has since evolved into an abstract and disputed idea.

The term "e;market"e; originally portrayed a public space for economic transactions but the term has since evolved into an abstract and disputed idea.

Mongolia's mining sector, along with its environmental and social costs, have been the subject of prolonged and heated debate.

The 'neoliberal' economic policy of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's AKP Party, which has delivered extraordinary growth in Turkish GDP over the last decade, has been one of the foundations of the party's popular appeal.

William Gueraiche's work is the first scholarly study of the UAE's campaign to establish itself on the international stage and to explore the impact that its economic transformation has had on the country.

Turkey's economy is a complex mix of modern industry, a traditional agricultural sector, and a rapidly growing private sector.

The 'neoliberal' economic policy of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's AKP Party, which has delivered extraordinary growth in Turkish GDP over the last decade, has been one of the foundations of the party's popular appeal.

The seven emirates that make up the United Arab Emirates were little known until the spectacular success of Dubai.

A compelling account of the dangers posed by narcissistic leaders, and why their rise to power has become the hallmark of our age.

Governments have conferred ownership titles to many citizens throughout the world in an effort to turn things into property.