Economic geography

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

Assembling Export Markets explores the new frontier regions of the global fresh produce market that has emerged in Ghana over the past decade.

Assembling Export Markets explores the new frontier regions of the global fresh produce market that has emerged in Ghana over the past decade.

Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Geography and Growth provides a timely, accessible review of our understanding of the complex links between innovation, entrepreneurship, geography and growth.

Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Geography and Growth provides a timely, accessible review of our understanding of the complex links between innovation, entrepreneurship, geography and growth.

This compelling contribution to contemporary debates about the banking industry offers a unique perspective on its geographical and conceptual 'placement'.

This compelling contribution to contemporary debates about the banking industry offers a unique perspective on its geographical and conceptual 'placement'.

Shows how financial globalization can be perilous, holding the capacity to finance the durability of authoritarian governments.

Focuses on Indonesia''s political regime, political economy, and how identity-based mobilizations have emerged since democratization in 1998.

Explores how political institutions and economic geography interact to shape governments'' policy decisions, particularly with respect to subsidies.

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

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

Over 100 scientists, architects, journalists, artists and activists address creatively the unprecedented challenges facing an Urban Planet.

Over 100 scientists, architects, journalists, artists and activists address creatively the unprecedented challenges facing an Urban Planet.

Diagnosis of the Brazilian Crisis delves into the complexities of Brazil's socio-economic challenges during a turbulent period of its history, offering a critical perspective on the role and responsibility of intellectuals in times of national crisis.

An unprecedented global account of the emergence of modern economic growth and its spread across the world from 1870 to the present.

An unprecedented global account of the emergence of modern economic growth and its spread across the world from 1700 to 1870.

Utilising the contemporary China-Pakistan relationship, economic theory and history, this book evaluates if China can spark Pakistan''s growth.

Using the theoretical framework of new economic geography and the research methods of GIS and econometrics, this book analyzes the impact of high-speed railway development on China's economic distribution, population mobility and regional integration.

A striking and famous feature of the English landscape, Dartmoor is a beautiful place, with a sense of wildness and mystery.

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

Mainland Southeast Asia is one of the world's key regions for trafficking of illegal goods.

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

This book provides a wider understanding of the geographies of the platform economy, focusing on the critical perspectives that have emerged on this new economic and digital context.

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

From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt investigates the effects of federal policy on the American South from 1938 until 1980 and charts the close relationship between federal efforts to reform the South and the evolution of activist government in the modern United States.

The Western powers established the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank after World War II as "e;"e;permanent machinery"e;"e; to anchor the Bretton Woods system.

Addressing the big questions about how technological change is transforming economies and societiesRapid technological change-likely to accelerate as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic-is reshaping economies and how they grow.

In the last ten to fifteen years, the Latin American and Caribbean region has undergone the most significant transformation of economic policy since World War II.

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.

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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.

Ernesto Caravantes was among the multitudes of people who were affected by the Recession of 2008, the financial impact of which continues to be felt to this day.

From the author:When Citadel Values went to press, we began looking for an educational tool to capture the lessons and fortify our students in the greater world beyond the Lesesne Gate.

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 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?

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.

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?