Economic geography

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

"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 work offers a nuanced perspective based on empirical evidence of the role of talent and creativity for economic growth, prosperity, social and spatial inequality, and precarity in creative cities by arguing that creativity and talent need to be valued and eventually rewarded to achieve sufficient conditions for individual economic success.

This book reviews the structure, applications, technologies, governance, environmental sustainability, smart communities, gender space and other issues related to smart cities.

This book identifies and analyzes livelihood impacts of recent environmental and socio-economic changes in urban and rural settings of the mountainous state of Himachal Pradesh, north western Himalaya, India.

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.

This book aims to provide a good understanding of and perspective on sustainable transport in Asia by focusing on economic, environmental, and social sustainability.

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

This book offers a multifaceted overview of the evolution of spatial development, governance and planning in the Western Balkans from an institutionalist perspective.

This series of books are the output of the research project called "e;Sustainable Development in Asia (SDA)"e;, which was initiated by the Association of Academies of Sciences in Asia (AASA).

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.

This book focuses on the transformation of Bangladesh in respect to its people, geography, economy and environment.

A comprehensive examination of the nature, causes, and consequences of internal migration in developing countriesDespite the key role of rural-urban migration in structural transformation and the persistence of lower living standards in the countryside, active policies to reduce, or even reverse, movement into towns are common in major developing regions.

Widely respected as an authoritative and accessible reference work.

More than half of the 116 research parks now operating in the United States were established during the 1980s, with the aim of boosting regional economic growth.

This book for the first time thoroughly investigates the extent of economic and institutional integrations and the underlying governance reshuffling process of China's city-regionalism.

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

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

This book comprises the historical overview of migration processes in Kyrgyzstan, contemporary migration trends in international migration and various social, economic and political impacts of migration.

This book explores how Japanese cities have transformed since the 1950s by describing housing and urban planning policies, urbanization processes, and maps with GIS analysis.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This book traces the interacting histories of the disciplines of ecology and economics, from their common origin in the ancient Greek concept of oikonomia, through their distinct encounters with energy physics, to the current obstruction of neoliberal economics to responses to the ecological and climate crisis of the so-called Anthropocene.

Fashion, and the growth of fashion, are presented as the manifestation of a process of civilization, within a capitalist culture (capital understood as material possessions) that has become global and imperialist, of which - in an economic sense - the industry (or the fashion system?

This book for the first time thoroughly investigates the extent of economic and institutional integrations and the underlying governance reshuffling process of China's city-regionalism.

The National Road is a comprehensive history of the first federally financed interstate highway, an approximately 600-mile span that joined Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois in the nineteenth century.

This book focuses on the relationship between gastronomy and urban space.

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.

Few crises in modern history have so completely disrupted every aspect of daily life as has the Covid-19 pandemic.

Wim Heijman Wageningen University, The Netherlands, E-mail: wim.

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

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The Geography of Finance tackles crucial issues regarding the emerging global market for corporate governance.

For the last 137 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.

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

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.

While the connected, international character of today's art world is well known, the eighteenth century too had a global art world.

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

Harald Schernthanner verfolgt das Ziel, aus geoinformatischer Sicht eine konzeptionelle Grundlage zur räumlichen Optimierung von Immobilienportalen zu schaffen.

For the last 136 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.

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.

This book argues that the theory of sustainable development lost some of its rigor because of two main reasons.

This book is part of a five-volume set that explores sustainability in textile industry practices globally.

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

This volume discusses how the German armed forces made effective use of military geologists to assist their fortification of the Channel Islands after their capture from the British in 1940.

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.