Economic geography

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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.

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

Do dynamic externalities, in the form of technology creation, adoption and spatial agglomeration shape the pattern of regional growth in Europe?

This volume highlights cutting-edge research on Zero waste management and the associated effects of waste on the environment.

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

Since the late 1990s, there have been broad discussions concerning the rapid rise of the creative economy.

This book looks at the uncharted territory between innovation activities and place making efforts to cultivate them.

Brazil is the world's sixth-largest economy, and for the first three-quarters of the twentieth century was one of the fastest-growing countries in the world.

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

This book examines the evolution and major elements of China's Belt-and-Road Initiative (BRI), a trillion-dollar project for the revival and refinement of ancient terrestrial and maritime trade routes.

This book examines the global influence and scope of medical tourism with an emphasis on the city of Kolkata in Eastern India as an emerging destination at the regional scale.

This is a multi-disciplinary scientific monograph referring to urban geography, urban regions management, event studies, tourism geography, cultural anthropology and sociology.

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

This book presents a compendium of the urban layout maps of 2-mile square downtown areas of more than one hundred cities in developed and developing countries-all drawn at the same scale using high-resolution satellite images of Google Maps.

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.

This volume approaches China's Belt and Road Initiative as a process of culturalization, one that started with the Silk Road and continued over the millennium.

This book identifies and discusses research directions, challenges and achievements in contemporary geography.

The Handbook of Regional Science is a multi-volume reference work providing state-of-the-art information, prepared by respected scientists in the field.

This book examines the economic history of ancient South Asia by situating the Malwa region of Central India within Afro-Eurasian trade networks to illuminate the role of traders in the political, religious and economic processes connected with the Indo-Sasanian trade in the period of five centuries, circa CE 300-700.

Following the signing of the peace agreement and the end of three-and-a-half years of siege, Sarajevo simultaneously experienced a double transition, from war to peace and from socialism to capitalism, that was marked by an increasing international intervention.

Ethnicity has become one of the most studied human dimensions in social and biomedical sciences over the past decade.

This volume addresses renewable energy communities, and in particular renewable energy cooperatives (REScoops), in the context of the revised EU Renewables Directive.

The assessment of local, regional or national impacts of an influx of tourists - of different kind and origin - has in recent years become a new challenge for economics research in the tourism sector.

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This anthology of significant writings by eminent economists is, in part, a critique of the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates, which was very successful at the time it was instituted but which, because of its rigidity, failed in the end to address the economic problems of the post-war era.

This volume brings together contributions from women business scholars from a range of disciplines and countries.

Quality of life (QOL) research in tourism has gained much momentum over the last two decades.

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

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

Ensuring optimal diets and nutrition for the global population is a grand challenge fraught with many contentious issues.

A nonpartisan plan of action for fixing the global economy from fifteen of the world's leading economistsIn the fall of 2008, fifteen of the world's leading economists-representing the broadest spectrum of economic opinion-gathered at New Hampshire's Squam Lake.

The geography of networks and R&D collaborations, in particular the spatial dimension of interactions between organisations performing joint R&D, have attracted a burst of attention in the last decade, both in the scientific study of the networks and in the policy sector.

Development largely depends on how given places participate in global economic processes.

This book discusses the conditions that underpin configuration of specific places as resource peripheries and the consequences that such a socio-spatial formation involves for those places.

Este libro pretende destacar que la geografía es una ciencia desde la cual se puede desarrollar el pensamiento crítico, además de resaltar que no es un instrumento más al servicio de la planificación de las fuerzas del mercado.

Environmentalists devote little attention at the moment to the size and growth of the human population.

Michael Bär untersucht Strukturen von Containerseehäfen im Ostseeraum, denn Containerterminals sind wichtige Schnittstellen bei der räumlichen Ausdehnung weltweit organisierter Transportlogistikabläufe.

The Statesman's Year-Book Historical Companion is a companion to The Statesman's Year-Book to celebrate 125 years of annual publication, giving histories of countries, provinces and states from the 19th century and also acting as a name-change gazetteer.

Nestle's Moga factory was set up in 1961 and comprises of the primary milk collection area for Nestle's operations.

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.

During the winter of 1974-5 six eminent Canadians were invited to lecture at Massey College on topics related to a central concern of our time -- the ability of Canadian affluence to continue to expand as it has.