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The Economics of the Frontier
Conquest and Settlement
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
This book deals with the economics of establishing a frontier by conquest or by peaceful settlement, the costs involved, and the optimum extension of the territory. The opening chapters discuss the most relevant literature about frontiers – conceptual, theoretical and empirical – and introduce...
The Curse of Natural Resources
A Developmental Analysis in a Comparative Context
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
This book examines the paradox that resource-rich countries often struggle to manage their resources in a way that will help their economies thrive. It looks at how a country's political regime and quality of governance can determine the degree to which it benefits - or suffers - from having natural...
Research Design and Proposal Writing in Spatial Science
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011
The complex interactions between human and physical systems confronting social scientists and policymakers pose unique conceptual, methodological, and practical complications when ‘doing research’. Graduate students in a broad range of related fields need to learn how to tackle the discipline-specific...
Tourism in the City
Towards an Integrative Agenda on Urban Tourism
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
This book critically explores the interconnections between tourism and the contemporary city from a policy-oriented standpoint, combining tourism perspectives with discussion of urban models, issues, and challenges. Research-based analyses addressing managerial issues and evaluating policy implications...
Healthy City Planning
From Neighbourhood to National Health Equity
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Healthy city planning means seeking ways to eliminate the deep and persistent inequities that plague cities. Yet, as Jason Corburn argues in this book, neither city planning nor public health is currently organized to ensure that today’s cities will be equitable and healthy.
Having made the...
Economics of Urban Externalities
Analysis of Squatter Settlements in Kathmandu and Quito
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
This book provides a fresh look at measuring negative externalities in the urbanization process. Meeting the challenges that come hand-in-hand with the contemporary age of rapid urbanization demands more extensive empirical knowledge. While most urbanization research focuses on positive externalities,...
China's Emerging Cities
The Making of New Urbanism
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
With urbanism becoming the key driver of socio-economic change in China, this book provides much needed up-to-date material on Chinese urban development.
Demonstrating how it transcends the centrally-planned model of economic growth, and assessing the extent to which it has gone beyond the...
Transport Matters
Integrated Approaches to Planning City-Regions
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Addressing the principles of sustainability, spatial planning, integration, governance and accessibility of transport, this book focuses on the problem of providing efficient and low energy transport systems which serve the needs of everybody.
It explores many of the new arguments, ideas and...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
This book addresses the topic of urban models with reference to large western cities and particularly to global cities. In the current transitional phase, the use of language and the systematization of phenomena has become important. The book’s matrix examines two important and strongly connected...
Livelihood Security in Northwestern Himalaya
Case Studies from Changing Socio-economic Environments in Himachal Pradesh, India
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
This book identifies and analyzes livelihood impacts of recent environmental and socio-economic changes in urban and rural settings of the mountainous state of Himachal Pradesh, north western Himalaya, India. The findings of the research deal with the broader objectives of the changing patterns of...
London: Business, Travel, Culture
Short Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2014
Revision 1.1
London is the most important political, financial, cultural and artistic center of the United Kingdom, and one of the most important cities of the world. In London there are many institutions and corporate headquarters of global importance; many important buildings:...
Crony Capitalism and Economic Growth in Latin America
Theory and Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Crony capitalism systems—in which those close to political policymakers receive favors allowing them to earn returns far above market value—are a fundamental feature of the economies of Latin America. Haber and his expert contributors draw from case studies in Mexico, Brazil, and other countries around the world to examine the causes and consequences of cronyism.
On Risk and Disaster
Lessons from Hurricane Katrina
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Named one of Planetizen's Top 10 Books of 2006
Hurricane Katrina not only devastated a large area of the nation's Gulf coast, it also raised fundamental questions about ways the nation can, and should, deal with the inevitable problems of economic risk and social responsibility. This volume...
Economic Growth in Developing Countries
Structural Transformation, Manufacturing and Transport Infrastructure
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Economic growth across countries during the last 30 years or so has displayed 'dual' divergence between developed and developing countries, and among developing countries. The structural transformation has been either slow or of an anomalous nature. The study addresses these and suggests how they can catch-up with developed world.