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Strategic Planning for Contemporary Urban Regions
City of Cities: A Project for Milan
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
This book is an account of how the Milan Provincial Administration and a team of researchers from Milan Polytechnic worked together to develop a new 'Strategic Plan' for Milan's urban region. Informed by innovative conceptions of both how to understand cities in the contemporary world, and engage...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
The Southeast Europe and Black Sea region presents fertile terrain for examining recent international migration trends. The contributions to this book cover a range of examples, from Ukraine and Moldova in the north, to Greece and Albania in the south. By intersecting the three key concepts of migration,...
Innovation, Growth and Competitiveness
Dynamic Regions in the Knowledge-Based World Economy
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
This book investigates dynamic regions in the context of greater global interaction in a world economy increasingly driven by knowledge and innovation. It offers novel empirical evidence on the underlying factors of the growth performance of these spaces. In particular, the following questions are...
Governing for the Future
Designing Democratic Institutions for a Better Tomorrow
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
This book is about governing well for the future. It investigates the nature of, and the conditions for, prudent long-term democratic governance in a dynamic, complex, and uncertain world, the reasons why such governance is politically challenging, and how such challenges can best be tackled. In particular,...
Complexity and Spatial Networks
In Search of Simplicity
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2009
Complex systems analysis has become a fascinating topic in modern research on non-linear dynamics, not only in the physical sciences but also in the life sciences and the social sciences. After the era of bifurcation theory, chaos theory, syn- getics, resilience analysis, network dynamics and evolutionary...
Land Delivery Systems in West African Cities
The Example of Bamako, Mali
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
Urban and peri-urban land markets in rapidly expanding West African cities operate within and across different coexisting tenure regimes and involve complex procedures to obtain or make land available for housing. Because a structured framework lacks for the analysis of such systems, this book proposes...
Business Networks in Clusters and Industrial Districts
The Governance of the Global Value Chain
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
During the 1980s the Marshallian concept of industrial district (ID) became widely popular due to the resurgence of interest in the reasons that make the agglomeration of specialised industries a territorial phenomenon worth being analysed. The analysis of clusters and IDs has often been limited,...
Schedule-Based Dynamic Transit Modeling
Theory and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Schedule-Based Dynamic Transit Modeling: Theory and Applications outlines the new schedule-based dynamic approach to mass transit modeling. In the last ten years the schedule-based dynamic approach has been developed and applied especially for operational planning. It allows time evolution of on-board...
The Creation of Local Innovation Systems in Emerging Countries
The Role of Governments, Firms and Universities
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
This book deals with the creation of local innovation systems (LIS) in emerging countries. The authors analyze the role of the government, firms and research centers in the formation of LIS. Special attention is paid to the manner in which different leading actors implement their LIS development strategies....
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Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
This book aims to clarify the present situation of the relations between small island countries and territories on the one hand and the great powers, mainland areas, and mega-islands on the other, and explores how small island countries and territories preserve and build their identity under globalization....
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
ASEAN+3 Bond Market Guide is a comprehensive explanation of the region’s bond markets. It provides various information such as the history, legal and regulatory framework, specific characteristics of the market, trading and transaction including settlement systems, and other relevant information....
Essays in Economic Dynamics
Theory, Simulation Analysis, and Methodological Study
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
This book reflects the state of the art in nonlinear economic dynamics, providing a broad overview of dynamic economic models at different levels. The wide variety of approaches ranges from theoretical and simulation analysis to methodological study. In particular, it examines the local and global...
by Roksana Bahramitash, Atena Sadegh, Negin Sattari
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
This book presents an innovative analysis of the solidarity/social economy among low-income religious women in Iran. For years, the role of low-income women in community care and poverty reduction has been underestimated and under-researched in the broader academic community, due to the “invisible”...
Metropolitan Regions
Knowledge Infrastructures of the Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
Metropolitan growth has been dramatic in the past several decades, and today metropolitan regions are recognized as the main driving forces in national growth and development as well as in national and global innovation processes. The purpose of this book is to contribute to a better understanding...