Regional category: 1377 books
by Zheng Wang
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
This book summarizes the research findings in regarding a region as a rational and abstract concept and explores the principles of regional science. Focusing on location theory, spatial dynamics and regional evolution theory, it stresses that the region as a scientific concept is an essential abstract...
by Alexander Wijgers
Language: German
Release Date: April 11, 2008
Language: German
Release Date: April 11, 2008
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich VWL - Fallstudien, Länderstudien, Note: 1,7, Universität Hamburg (Department Wirtschaftswissenschaften), Veranstaltung: Economic growth and development in China, 19 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: The economic growth of...
by Peter Calthorpe, William Fulton
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
MAmericans today do not live in discrete cities and towns, but rather in an aggregation of cities and suburbs that forms one basic economic, multi-cultural, environmental and civic entity. These “regional cities” have the potential to significantly improve the quality of our lives--to provide...
Regional Policy, Economic Growth and Convergence
Lessons from the Spanish Case
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2009
Many European, Latin American and Asian countries have experience with regional policies aiming to reduce regional disparities in GDP per capita and/or to develop problem regions helping to recover from its GDP decrease. Spain represents, without any doubt, a very rich and interesting case-study regarding...
Asian Economic Integration Report 2018
Toward Optimal Provision of Regional Public Goods in Asia and the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
This publication is the annual report of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Asia's progress in regional cooperation and integration. It covers ADB's 48 regional members and analyzes regional and global economic linkages. This year's special chapter, "Toward Optimal Provision of Regional Public...
Regional Advantage and Innovation
Achieving Australia's National Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Regional areas are key building blocks of society in many countries. This compilation uses Australian case study examples to demonstrate how regional areas are uniquely well-placed to contribute to national goals in innovation, infrastructure provision, water and food security, environmental sustainability,...
The Regional and Urban Policy of the European Union
Cohesion, Results-Orientation and Smart Specialisation
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
The regional and urban development policy of the European Union, or more precisely, EU Cohesion Policy, is undergoing change. This development is driven by the enormous transformations in European regions and by shifts in thinking and analysis. The issues raised by the changes to regional and urban development...
Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects
Building Resilient Regions
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
The mission of the Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects series is to inform policymakers, practitioners, and scholars about the effectiveness of select policy approaches, reforms, and experiments in addressing the key social and economic problems facing today's cities, suburbs, and metropolitan...
Regional Science Matters
Studies Dedicated to Walter Isard
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
This volume is a collection of fresh and novel contributions to regional science. They commemorate the scientific inheritance of the founding father of regional science, the late Walter Isard. All papers are written by well-known scholars in the field and serve to highlight the great importance...
Cooperation, Clusters, and Knowledge Transfer
Universities and Firms Towards Regional Competitiveness
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Cooperation and clusters have become the guiding paradigms for explaining and promoting regional competitiveness, but the cooperation process between firms and universities and the transfer of knowledge in guiding and nurturing regional competitiveness has received relatively little attention. This...
The TVA Regional Planning and Development Program
The Transformation of an Institution and Its Mission
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is a world-renowned model for regional planning and development. Based along the Tennessee River and its series of hydro-electric power stations, dams and reservoirs, the TVA development program envisioned a broad regional planning program. The program focused...
Smart Evaluation and Integrated Design in Regional Development
Territorial Scenarios in Trentino, Italy
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Smart Evaluation and Integrated Design in Regional Development puts forward an alternative approach to evaluation in spatial planning - one that focuses on ’territory’ and ’landscape’. The book introduces an innovative evaluation approach, namely Territorial Integrated Evaluation (TIE), a...
Socioeconomic Environmental Policies and Evaluations in Regional Science
Essays in Honor of Yoshiro Higano
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
This book is a volume of essays celebrating the life and work of Yoshiro Higano, professor of Environmental Policy, Doctoral Program in Sustainable Environmental Studies, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan. Prof. Higano’s research strongly focuses on...
Remaking Regional Economies
Power, Labor, and Firm Strategies in the Knowledge Economy
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2007
Since the early 1980s, the region has been central to thinking about the emerging character of the global economy. In fields as diverse as business management, industrial relations, economic geography, sociology, and planning, the regional scale has emerged as an organizing concept for interpretations...