Economic geography

American manufacturing is in obvious crisis: the sector lost three million jobs between 2000 and 2003 as the American trade deficit shot to record highs.

Is there enough water on this planet for a global population that will shortly double its present size?

Becoming the Arsenal discusses one of the three signal events that transformed the relationship of government and the private sector in directing the American economy.

This volume addresses renewable energy communities, and in particular renewable energy cooperatives (REScoops), in the context of the revised EU Renewables Directive.

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

In the global information society, innovation is a highly pervasive process that influences all facets of human life: cultural, economic, political, and institutional.

The growing wealth gap is best viewed as a proxy for how for how effectively elites have constructed institutions that extract value from the rest of society.

A presentation of the challenges of European rural landscape management, exploring alternatives that incorporate place-based approaches.

Sustainable catering aspires to reduce the environmental impacts of foodservice by serving nutritional, safe and environmentally friendly meals, and Italy has embraced the adoption of environmentally friendly diets and the minimization of food waste by introducing the minimum environmental criteria.

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

For the past two decades, scientists have urged us to abandon fossil fuels as rapidly as possible and pursue a range of other environmental reforms to avert the many crises climate change will bring.

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

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

Sustainable catering aspires to reduce the environmental impacts of foodservice by serving nutritional, safe and environmentally friendly meals, and Italy has embraced the adoption of environmentally friendly diets and the minimization of food waste by introducing the minimum environmental criteria.

This two-volume set presents the conference papers from the 1st International Conference on Economics, Development and Sustainability (EDESUS 2019), organized by the University of Economics and Business, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.

Reviews of previous editions: `This book should be in every office which is concerned with world trade and, indeed, in every school which produces the future traders.

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

This book provides a multidimensional analysis of Iran's struggle for development between 1970 and 2020.

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

This is a study of Northern Norway and Atlantic Canada, two regions experiencing a severe crisis due to overexploitation of fisheries resources.

The Arctic has become a global arena.

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

Pilot Project, India: The Story of Rural Development at Etawah, Uttar Pradesh by Albert Mayer offers an in-depth exploration of a groundbreaking rural development initiative that laid the foundation for Indias community development programs.

This book examines why the differences in comparative economic development across the world have a geographical pattern.

During the winter of 1974-5 six eminent Canadians were invited to lecture at Massey College on topics related to a central concern of our time -- the ability of Canadian affluence to continue to expand as it has.

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

This book offers a comprehensive overview of contemporary issues of regional development.

Why do some companies stay out of stock markets?

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.

Regulatory Choices offers the first comprehensive economic history of energy policy and its consequences for California, where some of the most innovative and far-ranging programs of regulatory reform have originated.

"e;Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

This book examines patterns of economic governance in three specific, contrasting, contexts: machinery-producing districts; declining steel cities; and clusters of high-technology activities.

For the last 138 years, The Statesman's Yearbook has been relied upon to provide accurate and comprehensive information on the current political, economic and social status of every country in the world.

This handbook presents a collection of high-quality, authoritative scientific contributions on cross-border migration, written by a carefully selected group of recognized migration experts from around the globe.

For the past 150 years, economics has been treated as a social science in which economies are modeled as a circular flow of income between producers and consumers.

By examining the issues of environmental policy formation and implementation linked to economic development, and reviewing the Japanese experiences and the examples of other Asian countries, this book reveals factors of dynamism between environmental policy and social change in a domestic, regional and global context.

Tourists are today urged to visit the 'birthplace of the Industrial Revolution', packaged as part of 'a glorious heritage'.

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

Investment is no longer a matter of individual savers directly choosing which shares or bonds to buy.

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.

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

This book discusses the development of the rural tourism industry in the Himalayan region, specifically in the region of Himachal Pradesh (HP), from the perspective of different stakeholders in the tourism industry.

Neoclassical economics, the intellectual bedrock of modern capitalism, faces growing criticisms, as many of its key assumptions and policy prescriptions are systematically challenged.

Growth in a Time of Change: Global and Country Perspectives on a New Agenda is the first of a two-book research project that addresses new issues and challenges for economic growth arising from ongoing significant change in the world economy, focusing especially on technological transformation.

This book examines the economic history of ancient South Asia by situating the Malwa region of Central India within Afro-Eurasian trade networks to illuminate the role of traders in the political, religious and economic processes connected with the Indo-Sasanian trade in the period of five centuries, circa CE 300-700.