Economic geography

In the spring of 2007, National Geographic warned, "e;The oceans are in deep blue trouble.

Topics include the transformation of the work force in nineteenth-century Montreal (Bettina Bradbury), feminization of skill in the British garment industry (Allison Kaye), the relationship between work and family for Japanese immigrant women in Canada (Audrey Kobayashi), experiences of women during a labour dispute in Ontario (Joy Parr), contemporary restructuring of the labour force in the United States (Susan Christopherson) and in an urban context in Montreal (Damaris Rose and Paul Villeneuve), the effect of gentrification on women's work roles (Liz Bondi), inequality in the work force (Sylvia Gold), and theoretical issues involved in understanding women in the contemporary city (Linda Peake).

Getting It Right is the first "e;insider's"e; account of this period of regional development in Canada.

The contributors explore four central themes: the locational impacts of the openness of the Canadian economy, Canada's relatively simple economic geography in terms of regional variations in resources and urban development, the problems of keeping pace with rapid advances in technology, and the role of government in maintaining a national market and assisting economic development.

This book offers a practice-based approach to developing strategies for utilizing broadband telecommunications for rural economic development.

In what ways are cities central to the evolution of contemporary global capitalism?

The concealment of income, wealth and profits in tax havens has brought the topic of offshoring into public debate, but as John Urry shows in this important new book offshoring is a much more pervasive feature of contemporary societies.

As health care concerns grow in the U.

Britain was once the leading economy in Europe; it is now the most unequal.

With almost half a million people and more than six times as many sheep, Tasmania has a rich history of wool production.

The phenomenon of international seaport administration is the subject of this book.

From the Foreword: `The chief aim of this book is to present the reader with an integrated system of methods dealing with geographical statistics (`geostatistics') and their applications.

How do recent trends toward globalization affect the Caribbean, a region whose suppliers, production, markets, and politics have been globalized for centuries?

This book explains the history of the gravity model of international trade and takes stock of recent methodological and theoretical advances.

This book explains the history of the gravity model of international trade and takes stock of recent methodological and theoretical advances.

This book explains the economic rationale for the clustering of firms and households.

Global perspective on how institutional factors facilitate or hamper the flows of information and knowledge.

Bogart puts the current policy debate over urban sprawl into a broader analytical context.

A comprehensive analysis of natural resource use and economic development in poor countries, first published in 2005.

An economic analysis of the costs and benefits of deforestation in the Amazon.

With a critical focus on US-Latin American encounters, the book analyses geopolitical issues from a post-colonial perspective.

This reader introduces students to examples of the most important research in the field of economic geography.

This insightful account demonstrates that capitalism in China has a history and a geography, and combines perspectives from both to demonstrate that regional economic restructuring in South China is far from an economic 'miracle's.

A Companion to Economic Geography presents students of human geography with an essential collection of original essays providing a key to understanding this important subdiscipline.

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.

In recent years there has been increased focus on understanding the dynamic relationships among entrepreneurship, policymaking and economic growth.

Macroeconomic adjustment and sectoral reforms have strongly modified the framework for rural development in Central America.

Handbook of Industrial Organization Volume 4 highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters.

Handbook of International Economics, Sixth Edition provides a definitive reference for researchers and advanced graduate students.

This book emphasizes the need for experimenting with more deliberate and rigorous policy processes to attain balanced regional development, which can promote both equity and efficiency in India's development discourse.

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Who really benefits from a cashless society?

Financial journalist Riva Froymovich has good reason to be anxious about the financial turmoil facing Generation Y.

Why our addiction to debt caused the global financial crisis and is the root of our financial woesAdair Turner became chairman of Britain's Financial Services Authority just as the global financial crisis struck in 2008, and he played a leading role in redesigning global financial regulation.

How the optimism gap between rich and poor is creating an increasingly divided societyThe Declaration of Independence states that all people are endowed with certain unalienable rights, and that among these is the pursuit of happiness.

Why the dollar is-and will remain-the dominant global currencyThe U.

In this book, Nobel Prize-winning economist Edmund Phelps draws on a lifetime of thinking to make a sweeping new argument about what makes nations prosper--and why the sources of that prosperity are under threat today.

Much popular belief--and public policy--rests on the idea that those born into poverty have it in their power to escape.

Nearly forty percent of humanity lives on an average of two dollars a day or less.

Travelling the circumference of the truly gigantic Pacific, Simon Winchester tells the story of the world's largest body of water, and - in matters economic, political and military - the ocean of the future.

In recent years, investors have learned the hard truth that in the international economy, politics often matters at least as much as economic fundamentals for the performance of global markets.

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

This book provides a critical account, a state-of-the-art review, as well as novel research methods of information technology development and the corresponding changes of socio-economic spatial organization in China.

It has long been recognized that advances in science contribute to economic growth.

A compelling theory on the rationale for the changing fortunes of nations

A challenge to the conventional wisdom surrounding financial risk, providing insight into why easy solutions to control the financial system are doomed to failFinance plays a key role in the prosperity of the modern world but it also brings grave dangers.

A revelatory study of how climate change will affect individual economic decisions, and the broad impact of those choicesSelected by Publishers Weekly as one of its Top Ten books in Business and Economics for Spring 2021It is all but certain that the next century will be hotter than any we've experienced before.

A decisive intervention in the "war" between generations, asking who stands to gain from conflict between baby boomers and millennials Millennials have been incited to regard their parents’ generation as entitled and selfish, and to blame the baby boomers of the Sixties for the cultural and economic problems of today.