Economic geography

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.

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.

This book examines the global influence and scope of medical tourism with an emphasis on the city of Kolkata in Eastern India as an emerging destination at the regional scale.

One of the main goals in fisheries governance is to promote viability and sustainability in small-scale fishing communities.

This book highlights the importance of clusters for the competitiveness of companies and is divided into three interrelated parts.

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

This volume discusses how different geographical spaces can enhance or hinder the capacity of a variety of organizational settings to achieve economic value creation in the pursuit of sustainable regional development.

This book aims to identify the impact of tourism on social and economic development in the Issyk-Kul region of Kyrgyzstan, and to predict the development of the tourism industry and identify any limiting factors for the development of the tourism industry in the Republic as a whole.

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

In nature, radiata pine is very localised and an obscure tree species despite the romantic character of much of its natural habitat.

This textbook helps students to understand the social, economic, and environmental importance of the mutual relations between industries in the same and in different regions and nations and demonstrates how to model these relations using regional, interregional, and international input-output (IO) models.

This book contains a collection of studies on the interactions between businesses in Africa and Global Value Chains (GVCs) in terms of social, environmental and economic sustainability.

This is the second volume in a two-part series on frontiers in regional research.

This book addresses the South African Space Economy and its stark disparities and dualisms through an assessment of the Gauteng City-Region - the largest economic agglomeration in the country and on a continent bedevilled by a myriad of development challenges.

This book profiles preliminary findings on the impact of COVID-19 on the travel, tourism and hospitality sector.

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