Economic geography

This comprehensive volume provides a broad overview of quality of life issues covering a wide geographical region: North America, Europe, parts of Africa, East Asia, and South Asia.

Much of the world's economic activity takes place in between cities and nations - the geographical containers that we have taken for granted for hundreds of years now.

This book examines the current difficulties facing the U.

Against a backdrop of economic uncertainty caused by a shift toward protectionism and the COVID-19 pandemic among other issues, this book suggests that international trade fairs (ITFs) represent a vital source of economic dynamism that can support national and regional economies by creating opportunities for firms to access new markets, network with key actors in their industry or value chain, and tap into valuable external knowledge flows regarding new technologies and innovations.

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

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This edited volume analyses and discusses the systematisation of Polish socio-economic transformations of the last three decades using selected examples of the most important changes.

Andreas Hengstermann untersucht am Beispiel  von Lebensmittel-Discountern die Wirksamkeit aktiver Bodenpolitik im Vergleich zu einer traditionellen, passiven Bodennutzungsplanung und zeigt auf, welche Vorgehensweise stärker zu einer Steuerung der räumlichen Entwicklung beiträgt.

Intense uplift of the Tibetan Plateau in Late Cenozoic Era is one of the most important events in geological history of the Earth.

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

Governments have conferred ownership titles to many citizens throughout the world in an effort to turn things into property.

The lifestyles and socio-economic status that are prevalent in regions of the world with limited resources form the background for the unique features of neoplastic diseases in these areas, where the majority of the world population lives.

Utilizing innovative ethnographic research, Swept Up Lives?

This book is a reference work about the study of oases in the context of globalization.

Handbook of Industrial Organization Volume 4 highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters.

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

Deregulation has been at the top of Japan's economic policy agenda for many years.

This book intends to present the development of socio-spatial practices in the metropolitan coast of the Northeast of Brazil, highlighting the main urban, spa and tourist agglomerations: Salvador-BA, Recife-PE, Fortaleza-CE, and Natal-RN.

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

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.

Financial market bubbles are recurring, often painful, reminders of the costs and benefits of capitalism.

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

Seaports, as part of urban centers, play a major role in the cultural, social and economic life of the cities in which they are located, and through the links they provide to the outside world.

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.

This book describes the transformation of the agricultural sector in East-Central European countries after the collapse of the socialist system at the beginning of the 20th century.

This volume aims to explore project management contributions to sustainable business change based on renewability, reuse, and repair as well as the effect of circular economy business solutions on project management in terms of the management approach, governance, and leadership.

This book analyzes the recent growth of Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Fuzhou, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Nanjing, and Hong Kong, seven major Chinese coastal cities.

This book discusses the development of the rural tourism industry in the Himalayan region, specifically in the region of Himachal Pradesh (HP), from the perspective of different stakeholders in the tourism industry.

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For nearly one hundred and forty 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.

Through the 1990s and early 2000s the strength of the United States economy has been linked to its ability to foster large numbers of small innovative technology companies, a few of which have grown to dominate new industries, such as Microsoft, Genentech, or Google.

This book examines regional structural challenges on Colombia's path to sustainable social cohesion and regionally inclusive growth.

This is the second volume in a two-part series on frontiers in regional research.

America is witnessing a retirement crisis.

This book addresses the South African Space Economy and its stark disparities and dualisms through an assessment of the Gauteng City-Region - the largest economic agglomeration in the country and on a continent bedevilled by a myriad of development challenges.

Understanding the ways in which people save for their retirement is an urgent issue.

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

The term 'transnationalism' has gained considerable academic and popular currency despite a lack of clear definitions, in part because its overall form changes as its influence incorporates additional spheres of daily life on a variety of scales and contexts.

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

This book approaches the tourism and hospitality industry from a regional science perspective.

Dieses Handbuch beinhaltet 73 Beiträge von 76 Autorinnen und Autoren die versuchen das gesamte Feld der Freizeit- und Tourismusgeographie möglichst vollständig abzudecken.

This book asserts that the albatross was the reason for the advance of the Japanese into the isolated islands in the Pacific after the abolition of the Japanese "e;closed-door"e; policy that had been in effect from the seventeenth century to the latter part of the nineteenth century.

Increasingly, Australia's agriculturalists are looking to the nation's north to escape the decline in southern Australia's water and soil resources.

The world has entered a period of significant changes regarding the future of energy generation, mainly caused by the apparent exhaustion of hyd- carbons in the near future, and the Greenhouse gases (GHG) effect of alt- ing the climate worldwide.

Cities form one of the principal arenas in which globalization processes are manifest.

This book paints a bold and inspiring scenario of India becoming an affluent society by 2039, that is, within a generation from now.