Urban Regional category: 846 books
by Riccardo Crescenzi, Andrés Rodríguez-Pose
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2011
This book investigates the EU’s regional growth dynamics and, in particular, the reasons why peripheral and socio-economically disadvantaged areas have persistently failed to catch up with the rest of the Union. It shows that the capability of the knowledge-based growth model to deliver its expected...
Regional Cooperation in South Asia
Socio-economic, Spatial, Ecological and Institutional Aspects
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
This book highlights various challenges and opportunities for regional cooperation and development in South Asia. In light of the ongoing globalization process, the contributors investigate how socio-economic developments are changing the spatial organization of production as well as the profile of...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
This publication about the urban agenda in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) is timely as the world economy embraces the region with accelerated growth. An important element of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Economic Community, the GMS is expected to catch up with the rest of Asia by...
The Recession and Beyond
Local and Regional Responses to the Downturn
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
How has the recession impacted on firms, people and places? How have local and regional authorities responded? This book aims to answer these questions by offering an overview of the impacts of the recession on people and places and how it has affected local authorities in the UK and other OECD countries....
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Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2014
This book reviews the current trends and challenges of regional integration and trade in Africa. It provides valuable policy recommendations aimed at stimulating the debate among the government, private sector and development community on the ways to promote regional trade for Africa's economic development.
by Małgorzata Runiewicz-Wardyn
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
The book provides conceptual and empirical insights into the complex relationship between knowledge flows and regional growth in the EU. The author critically scrutinizes and enhances the RIS (Regional Innovation System) approach, discussing innovation as a technological, institutional and evolutionary...
Globalization and Regional Growth in Europe
Past Trends and Future Scenarios
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2011
After a description of the new forms of globalization currently shaping our world, and of their possible spatial effects, the book highlights which European regions have in the past succeeded in taking advantage of globalization trends and identifies the major reasons for their success. The book also...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
This book discusses the question of how a regional economy can develop under the influence of an ageing and declining population, and how regional development policies can help make labor markets more resilient and more inclusive. As the greatest impacts of demographic change and policy and fiscal...
Regional Price Formation in Eastern Europe
Theory and Practice of Trade Pricing
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This monograph presents a detailed examination of a variety of issues pertain ing to pricing in the context of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA), a designation that I much prefer over Comecon. It situates itself within the contours of the pricing problematique that I have recently...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
This book presents a theoretical investigation of the formation of regional free trade agreements (FTAs), the behavior of global enterprises, and government trade policies in various game forms including multi-stage games, repeated games, and timing games. In the last few decades, the number of FTAs...
Housing and Commuting: The Theory of Urban Residential Structure
A Textbook in Urban Economics
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
The field of urban economics is built on an analysis of housing prices, land rents, housing consumption, spatial form, and other aspects of urban residential structure. Drawing on the journal publications and teaching notes of Pro
Can Neighbourhoods Save the City?
Community Development and Social Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2010
For decades, neighbourhoods been pivotal sites of social, economic and political exclusion processes, and civil society initiatives, attempting bottom-up strategies of re-development and regeneration. In many cases these efforts resulted in the creation of socially innovative organizations, seeking...
by Bruce Hayllar, Tony Griffin, Deborah Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
Over the last decade, commentaries and research on urban tourism precincts have predominantly focused on: their role in the tourism attractions mix; their physical and functional forms; their economic significance; their role as a catalyst for urban renewal; their evolution and associated development...
The New Economy of the Inner City
Restructuring, Regeneration and Dislocation in the 21st Century Metropolis
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2009
Following the restructuring process which swept away the traditional manufacturing economy of the inner city 25 years ago, new industries are transforming these former post-industrial landscapes. These creative, technology-intensive industries include Internet services, computer graphics and imaging,...