Economic geography

The book is aimed at a wide audience, including academics, economic geography, spatial planning and regional policy researchers, institutional leaders and managers, national and institutional policy makers, practitioners, administrators, master's and senior bachelor's students on related courses, general readers.

As heard on NPR's Fresh Air"e;This empowering light into a brighter future is a narrative you won t want to miss.

People around the world are confused and concerned.

Lack of credit access is severe in low income and poor families that are normally considered to have fewer opportunities to borrow from banks due to insufficient valuable assets for collateral.

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

This volume discusses the latest techniques and their economic applications for modern industries like computer, pharmaceutical, banking and other manufacturing.

This book highlights the first comparative long-term analysis of the negative impacts of large dams on riverine communities and on free-flowing rivers in Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

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

The goals of this book are to update information on the effects of rural road development, both in Nepal and globally, explain the environmental, socioeconomic, and sociocultural impacts of expanding rural road networks in the Nepalese Himalaya, and to promote further studies on rural road development throughout the world based on studies and investigations performed in Nepal.

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

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

Freer Trade, Sustainability, and the Primary Production Sector in the Southern European Union is the first full-scale academic work to cap- ture the primary production sector policy aspects of trade liberaliza- tion and sustainability with a detailed focus on a typical southern EU country, Greece.

This book analyses situations of coexistence and confrontation of agricultural and food models according to four major dimensions of territorial development: the tension between specialisation and diversification; innovation; adaptation; and food transition.

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

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

As a legacy of the socialist state with central planning, Five-Year Planning (FYP) is very important in regulating socio-economic and spatial development even in post-reform China.

A Study on Globalizing Cities is the latest masterpiece by Zhou Zhenhua, a famous Chinese economist, who closely tracks the theoretical study of global cities and is actively engaged in the strategic research of Shanghai's development.

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

This book offers a comprehensive and insightful exploration of the technologies and processes involved in energy generation through waste treatment.

It has long been an interest of researchers in economics, sociology, organization studies, and economic geography to understand how firms innovate.

The impact of digital technology on the musical economy has been profound.

This book explores the effects of climate on tourism and the effectiveness of climate adaptation in this sector.

This book summarizes how globalizing capitalism-the economic system now presumed to dominate the global economy-can be understood from a geographical perspective.

How only violence and catastrophes have consistently reduced inequality throughout world historyAre mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality?

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

People around the world are confused and concerned.

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

This book evaluates local conservation successes of global south in the climate milieu, as an empirical evidence of 'Bio-rights' of commons at community-ecosystem interface for sustainable intensification of nature's goods and services.

Is the 'natural resource curse' destiny?

This book focuses on the questions of how territorial differences in productivity levels and unemployment rates arise in the first place and why territorial differences in labor market performance persist over time.

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

This book develops spatial interaction models for the analysis of human interaction within space, in terms of both accessibility and land use.

This volume describes the construction of the territorial identity of the southern end of South America and analyzes the cartographic territorialization of Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego and the "e;Terra Australis"e; continent.

This book offers the first detailed account of the complex geographical dynamics currently restructuring China's export-oriented industries.

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.

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

Spices can be classified as major spices, like Black pepper, Cardamom, Turmeric, Ginger etc, and minor spices and condiments, and tree spices.

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

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.

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.

The issue of maintaining a balanced relationship between tourism and the environment has received considerable attention since the 1970s.

This book rejects the idea that natural resource industries are doomed to slow growth.

This handbook presents an overview of research on test anxiety and related forms of students' stress and anxiety at schools and other academic environments, and also brings together a series of psychological interventions to prevent and treat anxiety disorders related to academic assessments.