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Steel City
Hamilton and Region
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1987
From its establishment nearly 200 years ago as a village at the centre of an agricultural district, Hamilton has grown into one of Canada's biggest industrial centres, at the heart of a highly developed regional municipality. The story of its changing landscapes, both physical and human, is presented...
A Leader and a Laggard
Manufacturing Industry in Nova Scotia, Quebec and Ontario
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1970
Advanced countries in all parts of the world are concerned with the geographical unevenness of their development. Canada's preoccupation is with the Atlantic provinces, and for years government departments and agencies have tried to improve the region's economy. However, the evidence suggests that...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
This book contributes to the theoretical and empirical literature on Asian regionalism, with a focus on the innovations needed to reform the current institutional architecture in Asia. After reviewing the key issues and challenges related to the political economy of Asia’s economic cooperation and...
The Science of Cities and Regions
Lectures on Mathematical Model Design
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
A ‘science of cities and regions’ is critical for meeting future challenges. The world is urbanising: huge cities are being created and are continuing to grow rapidly. There are many planning and development issues arising in different manifestations in countries across the globe. These developments...
Service Industries and Regions
Growth, Location and Regional Effects
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
The service sector in most advanced economies accounts for up to seventy percent of employment and GDP and, given its growing importance, has received much research attention over the last two decades. However, not very much attention has been paid to the relationship between this sector and both...
Regional Performance Measurement and Improvement
New Developments and Applications of Data Envelopment Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
This is the first book to fully introduce a newly developed distance friction minimization (DFM) model, which is one of the new efficiency improvement projection approaches in data envelopment analysis (DEA). The DFM model can produce a most effective solution in efficiency improvement projections...
Africa's Cities
Opening Doors to the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Cities in Sub-Saharan Africa are experiencing rapid population growth. Yet their economic growth has not kept pace. Why? One factor might be low capital investment, due in part to Africa’s relative poverty: Other regions have reached similar stages of urbanization at higher per capita GDP. This study,...
Economic Growth in the Regions of Europe
Theory and Empirical Evidence from a Spatial Growth Model
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2011
Although interest in spatial growth regressions has been growing in recent years, formal theoretical approaches that acknowledge the role of space in economic growth have been sparse. In particular in a regional context, the assumption of independent, non-interacting closed economies can lead to misinterpretations....
Adapting to EU Multi-Level Governance
Regional and Environmental Policies in Cohesion and CEE Countries
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
The main theme of this book is the adaptation process of the new EU member states from Central-Eastern Europe (Hungary and Poland) to the multi-level system of governance in public policy, particularly in the regional and environmental policy areas. The work conceptualizes policy learning and institutional...
by Li Yu
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
While the Chinese planning system is vitally important to the rapid development which has been taking place over the past three decades, this is the first text to provide a comprehensive examination and critical evaluation of this system. It sets the current system in historical context and explains...
by Patrick Collins, James A. Cunningham
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
This is the first study to draw on international research carried out across four EU member states to add to the neglected area of the creative economy of peripheral regions.
Economies are dynamic entities and subject to constant flux. Driven by changing tastes, new ways to make and disruptive...
Economics of the Marine
Modelling Natural Resources
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
This book extends the current international interest in the conceptualization of the marine sector to explore its importance of at different geographical scales: from the national, to regional and small area analysis within the context of base theory, New Economic Geography, agglomeration theory,...
Regional and Subregional Program Links
Mapping the Links Between ASEAN and the GMS, BIMP-EAGA, and IMT-GT
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
This report presents an assessment of the links among the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the three subregional programs (Greater Mekong Subregion [GMS], Brunei Darussalam–Indonesia–Malaysia–Philippines East ASEAN Growth Area [BIMP-EAGA], Indonesia–Malaysia–Thailand Growth...
by Stefanie Dühr, Claire Colomb, Vincent Nadin
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
There is a strong international dimension to spatial planning. European integration strengthens interconnections, development and decision-making across national and regional borders. EU policies in areas such as environment, transport, agriculture or regional policy have far-reaching effects on spatial...