Economic geography

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

An eye-opening account of the failures of our financial system, the sources of its staying power, and the path to meaningful economic reform.

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

This proceedings book addresses the main issues of contemporary political geography and international relations, providing a platform for discussion and collaboration of experts in the fields of Political Geography, Geopolitics, International Relations, and International Law.

This book is the first to give a comprehensive and detailed overview of the complete geography of Slovenia in English.

Japanese manufacturing firms established in Britain have often been portrayed as carriers of Japanese corporate best practice for work and employment.

Throughout the industrialized world, international migrants serve as nannies, construction workers, gardeners and small-business entrepreneurs.

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

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

This book discusses the outcomes of more than ten years of research in the southern tracts of the Amazon region, and addresses the expansion of the agricultural frontier, consolidation of the agribusiness-based economy, and expansion of regional infrastructure (roads, dams, urban centres, etc).

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

This book brings together academics and experts on Turkish network industries.

This unique book focuses on the hybridization of grassroots participation in planning, implementing, and developing gender-responsive budgeting.

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

This volume critiques the current model of the creative economy, and considers alternative models that may point to greener, cleaner, more sustainable and socially just cultural and creative industries.

Ontario is the most populous and most prosperous province in Canada.

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.

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

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

Condensed into a detailed analysis and a selection of continent-wide datasets, this revised edition of World Population & Human Capital in the Twenty-First Century addresses the role of educational attainment in global population trends and models.

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

Focusing on five key themes - hydrocarbons, electricity, mining, social license to operate, and arbitration/dispute resolution- via in-depth country and regional case studies, this book seeks to capture the contrasting and sometimes conflicting trends in energy governance in Latin America as it wrestles with a dependence on fossil fuels whilst shifting toward a low carbon future.

'The Ganges: Cultural, Economic, and Environmental Importance' is a geographical, cultural, economic, and environmental interpretation of the Ganga River.

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

This book discusses the subject of pathways to a sustainable economy through science and technology innovations which are regarded as the important components of the '4th Industrial Revolution'.

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

The concept of globalization has become ubiquitous in social science and in the public consciousness and is often invoked as an explanation for a diverse range of changes to economies, societies, politics and cultures - both as a positive liberating force and as a wholly negative one.

How are firms, networks of firms, and production systems organized and how does this organization vary from place to place?

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

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

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

This volume defines and analyzes the Blue Economy, a system that encompasses all the economic activities which are happening in and around the ocean within a sustainable development framework, with focus on countries in Asia.

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

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

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

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.

Firms are at the very heart of modern day life.

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

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

Today, interest in monetary history has been revived.

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.

This book defines and discusses the term "e;hidden geographies"e; in two ways: systematically and by presenting a variety of examples of the research fields and topics concerning hidden geographies, with the aim of stimulating further basic and applied research in this area.

Amongst intellectuals and activists, neoliberalism has become a potent signifier for the kind of free-market thinking that has dominated politics for the past three decades.

Why Enlightenment culture sparked the Industrial RevolutionDuring the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Revolution and the sustained economic progress that spread across the globe.

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

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.

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