Regional category: 1377 books
Inter-Regional Place Branding
Best Practices, Challenges and Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
This book examines and clarifies key aspects of regional branding with the special focus of inter-regional brands. Today regions are in strong competition for companies, tourists and most of all talent. In order to differentiate one region from another, regional developers, politicians and planners...
Cities, State and Globalisation
City-Regional Governance in Europe and North America
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
This book investigates the ways in which city regions view themselves as single entities, how they are governed, what is meant by ‘governance’, why the question of city-regional governance matters, and the extent to which the balance between internal and external factors is important for finding...
Discovering American Regionalism
An Introduction to Regional Intergovernmental Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
Regions are difficult to govern – coordinating policies across local jurisdictional boundaries in the absence of a formal regional government gives rise to enormous challenges. Yet some degree of coordination is almost always essential for local governments to effectively fulfill their responsibilities...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
This contributed volume is the first book in English to offer a current and critical vision of regional problems and policies in the countries of Latin America. The book is in three main parts: a general overview of regional processes and trends in Latin America as a whole; country-level coverage...
The Dilemma of Regional Policy
Increasing ‘Efficiency’ or Improving ‘Equity’?
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Applying the principles of Optimal Control Theory to the problem of regional allocation of investment can be a useful tool for demonstrating how the trade-off between regional equity and overall efficiency can be overcome. This book poses the following questions: are spatial inequalities harmful for...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In the last few years research on regional development has increased dramatically. Real-world concerns have - to a certain extent - driven this scientific concern of interest. The field has been given a big boost in particular by the process of European integration and the attempt to understand how...
Regional Development in Rural Areas
Analytical Tools and Public Policies
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2016
This book intends to provide analytical and policy tools for investigating the question of the development of rural and peri-urban areas. The aim is to shed some light on this topic and in particular to contribute to a better understanding of the link between issues of regional or territorial development...
Re-Evaluating Regional Organizations
Behind the Smokescreen of Official Mandates
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
This book re-evaluates the regional organizations landscape and discusses how organizations with similar mandates can exercise strikingly different goals. Even economic organizations, which do not produce any outcomes in terms of economic cooperation, can be valuable for their members or individual...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
This book presents a number of key studies pertaining to the most pressing challenges of economic regional integration in West Africa. The issues of monetary coordination, foreign exchange volatility, taxation, savings and macroeconomic convergence are investigated from a regional perspective....
Regional Development
Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
From domestic to international settings, aid and assistance to less-developed areas has recently been bolstered by a boom in technological advances and new research. Regional Development: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications presents a vital compendium of research detailing the latest case...
Korea in the New Asia
East Asian Integration and the China Factor
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2007
Since the late 1970s a number of regional developments have impacted upon South Korea’s political and economic standing in Asia. China’s spectacular growth and closer integration with its neighbouring economies, along with a tendency toward more assertive political and diplomatic activity, have...
Decentralisation and Regional Development
Experiences and Lessons from Four Continents over Three Decades
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
This book analyzes decentralisation, regional development paths and success factors in different governance sectors in Ghana, the Philippines, Tanzania and Chile, and discuss overarching aspects of relevance. Decentralisation, which refers to the delegation of administrative responsibilities, political...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
This book discusses the latest theoretical advances in regional innovation research, presents empirical cases involving the development of regional innovation systems (RISs), and explores regional innovation policy approaches. Grounded in the extensive literature on RISs, it addresses state-of-the-art...
Regional Energy Initiatives
MedReg and the Energy Community
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
This book focuses on the two intra-regional initiatives created for the development and integration of energy markets: the Energy Community and MedReg.
The Energy Community and MedReg, apart from their common strategic role in providing a much-needed stable regulatory environment for energy...