Regional category: 1377 books
Critical Reflections on Regional Competitiveness
Theory, Policy, Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
Since the early 1990s, governments and development agencies have become increasingly preoccupied with the pursuit of regional competitiveness. However, there is considerable confusion around what exactly regional competitiveness means, how it might be achieved, whether and how it can be measured,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
The Handbook of Local and Regional Development provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for local and regional development. The scope of this Handbook’s coverage and contributions engages with and reflects upon the politics and policy of how we think about and practise local and regional...
Coping with Regional Vulnerability
Preventing and Mitigating Damages from Environmental Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Whether a natural event turns into a disaster depends on the severity of the hazard as well as the condition of the social sphere of its potential victims, i.e., vulnerability. We focus on regional vulnerability considering the fact that regional socioeconomic conditions determine the aspects of the...
Success Factors of Regional Strategies for Multinational Corporations
Appropriate Degrees of Management Autonomy and Product Adaptation
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
This work examines the factors that drive the success of Multinational Corporations (MNCs) in their pursuit of regional strategies. The author develops a comprehensive regional success factor model, by which the effects of regional management autonomy and regional product and service adaptation on...
Regional Research Frontiers - Vol. 1
Innovations, Regional Growth and Migration
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
This volume focuses on frontiers in regional research and identifies trends and future developments in the areas of innovation, regional growth and migration. It also addresses topics such as mobility, regional forecasting, and regional policy, and includes expert contributions on disasters, resilience,...
Governing Urban Regions Through Collaboration
A View from North America
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
With the demise of the Old Regionalist project of achieving good regional governance through amalgamation, voluntary collaboration has become the modus operandi of a large number of North American metropolitan regions. Although many researchers have become interested in regional collaboration and...
Spatial Economic Modelling of Megathrust Earthquake in Japan
Impacts, Reconstruction, and Regional Revitalization
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
This book presents an evaluation of the impacts of megathrust earthquakes and tsunamis on regional economies and subsequent reconstruction, as well as regional revitalization by the spatial economic model and dynamic macro and regional computable general equilibrium (CGE) models. The cases examined...
Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics
Cities and Geography
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
The new Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics: Cities and Geography reviews, synthesizes and extends the key developments in urban and regional economics and their strong connection to other recent developments in modern economics. Of particular interest is the development of the new economic geography...
Regional Research Frontiers - Vol. 2
Methodological Advances, Regional Systems Modeling and Open Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
This is the second volume in a two-part series on frontiers in regional research. It identifies methodological advances as well as trends and future developments in regional systems modelling and open science. Building on recent methodological and modelling advances, as well as on extensive policy-analysis...
SinoJapanese Relations
Rivals or Partners in Regional Cooperation?
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Sino-Japanese relations have been on the mend since Shinzo Abe assumed the Japanese Prime Minister's office in September 2006. His visit to China in October 2006 and the reciprocal visits of Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao in April 2007, and President Hu Jintao in May 2008, facilitated the further...
Regional Economic Development
Analysis and Planning Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Regional economic development has attracted the interest of economists, geographers, planners and regional scientists for a long time. And, of course, it is a field that has developed a large practitioner cohort in government and business agencies from the national down to the state and local levels....
Regional Developmentalism through Law
Establishing an African Economic Community
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2018
Offering a study of regionalism in Africa and investigating the ways in which law can be used to address the issues raised by regional processes on the continent, this book examines the African Economic Community, considering that it has been entrusted to coordinate and to harmonize policies between...
by Walter Isard, Iwan J. Azis, Matthew P. Drennan
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This landmark textbook introduces students to the principles of regional science and focuses on the key methods used in regional analysis, including regional and interregional input-output analysis, econometrics (regional and spatial), programming and industrial and urban complex analysis, gravity...
Seminal Studies in Regional and Urban Economics
Contributions from an Impressive Mind
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017
The book spans a scientific research program elegantly developed by Roberto Camagni, an eminent regional scientist, who has offered ground-breaking ideas in regional and urban economics throughout his academic career. In addition to bringing together a selection of Professor Camagni’s most influential...