Economic geography

The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography presents students and researchers with a comprehensive overview of the field, put together by a prestigious editorial team, with contributions from an international cast of prominent scholars.

The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography presents students and researchers with a comprehensive overview of the field, put together by a prestigious editorial team, with contributions from an international cast of prominent scholars.

Utilizing innovative ethnographic research, Swept Up Lives?

The book draws from regulation theory to explain urban planning policies and outcomes in Southeast Asia as a function of governance structures and processes.

First published in 1996, A History of Ukraine quickly became the authoritative account of the evolution of Europe's second largest country.

First published in 1996, A History of Ukraine quickly became the authoritative account of the evolution of Europe's second largest country.

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

This anthology of research is divided into five sections: definition of the urban system, structural characteristics, distribution of urban growth, transportation networks and interaction between cities, and the impact of growth on urban behaviour and the rural economy.

Distribution analysis has advanced remarkably in recent years, and this is a valuable application of its principles to a Canadian context.

This is the first attempt, using Canadian data and econometric techniques, to study property crime as rational economic behaviour.

Even in a globalizing, knowledge-based economy, cities remain engines of growth, innovation, and diversity.

Even in a globalizing, knowledge-based economy, cities remain engines of growth, innovation, and diversity.

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.

The term 'transnationalism' has gained considerable academic and popular currency despite a lack of clear definitions, in part because its overall form changes as its influence incorporates additional spheres of daily life on a variety of scales and contexts.

This book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date, and expert synthesis of location theory.

This authoritative reference work explores the factors driving the much-debated increase in economic inequality in U.

Economic Development of Communist China: An Appraisal of the First Five Years of Industrialization analyzes the rapid economic transformation in China between 1952 and 1957 under the First Five-Year Plan.

This book addresses some of the most urgent global problems in today's world from a geographical perspective and highlights contemporary environmental, political, economic, social and geoethical aspects.

"e;Economists agree about many things--contrary to popular opinion--but the majority agree about culture only in the sense that they no longer give it much thought.

This book identifies and discusses research directions, challenges and achievements in contemporary geography.

This groundbreaking book analyses the geography of the commercial Internet industry.

Aid for Trade (AfT) has become a major item on the international trade and development discourse.

As urbanization progresses at a remarkable pace, policy makers and analysts come to understand and agree on key features that will make this process more efficient and inclusive, leading to gains in the welfare of citizens.

European cities have for decades found themselves in a phase of important changes.

This book contains a selection of papers presented at the Advanced Research Workshop on 'The Socio-economic causes and consequences of desertification in Central Asia' held in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, in June 2006.

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

Integrated Water Resources Management and Security in the Middle East brings together diverse voices relating to the critical issue of water management in one of the world's most politically volatile areas: the Middle East.

"e;Places of Power: Political Economies of Landscape Change"e; asks how politics and economics transform the landscapes we inhabit.

European metropolitan areas have experienced a marked reorganization associated with the processes of globalization and the European integration of economic act- ities on various spatial scales.

Enterprising World represents the culmination of several years of work by geographers, planners, and economists.

After leading the world during most of the 20th century in economic, political, technological, military, and even social terms, America's role is now being challenged.

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Jan Lambooy retired in October 2002.

Emerging Threats to Energy Security and Stability January 23 to January 25, 2004, Windsor Castle, UK This two-day NATO-sponsored workshop was organised by the Windsor Energy Group and MEC International Ltd with support from NATO's Science Committee.

The world has become increasingly separated into the haves and have-nots.

Brazil is the world's sixth-largest economy, and for the first three-quarters of the twentieth century was one of the fastest-growing countries in the world.

A nonpartisan plan of action for fixing the global economy from fifteen of the world's leading economistsIn the fall of 2008, fifteen of the world's leading economists-representing the broadest spectrum of economic opinion-gathered at New Hampshire's Squam Lake.

The economy is so powerful in determining the results of U.

During the 1990s, the United States underwent a dramatic transformation: investing in stocks, once the province of a privileged elite, became a mass activity involving more than half of Americans.

"e;Economists agree about many things--contrary to popular opinion--but the majority agree about culture only in the sense that they no longer give it much thought.

This is a Festschrift to honour Professor Melvin Greenhut who has long toiled on spatial economics.

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The Statesman's Year-Book Historical Companion is a companion to The Statesman's Year-Book to celebrate 125 years of annual publication, giving histories of countries, provinces and states from the 19th century and also acting as a name-change gazetteer.

The second in a two volume tribute to Walter Isard, the first being "e;New Frontiers in Regional Science"e;, this book looks at dynamics and conflict in regional structural change.

The first in a two volume tribute to Walter Isard, the second being "e;Dynamics and Conflict in Regional structural Change"e;, this book looks at new frontiers in regional science.