Regional Economics
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Planning History and Methodology
Edited by Michael Wegener, Kenneth Button, Peter Nijkamp
Planning as deliberate preparation for future action is as old as human history. Agricultural land allocation and cities were always planned, as were military warfare and defence. With the growing complexity of society in the 19th centur... -
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Regionalism, Trade and Economic Development in the Asia-Pacific Region
Edited by M. A.B. Siddique
This book is based on the premise that Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) in the Asia-Pacific significantly impact on the material progress of the peoples of this region. These impacts – in terms of the benefits and costs associated with R...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Networks in the Innovation Process
Holger Graf
Innovation has long been regarded as an interactive process between heterogeneous actors and as a crucial factor in local and regional development. This timely and significant book focuses on the interactions existing within local networ... -
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The Growth of Cities
Edited by Zoltán J. Ács
To understand why some regions grow and others stagnate, we need to understand the interactions between economic growth, economic geography and the economics of innovation. Each of these individual approaches has strengths and weaknesses... -
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Clusters and Globalisation
Edited by Christos Pitelis, Roger Sugden, James R. Wilson
Clusters and Globalisation brings together scholars with different perspectives and theoretical groundings, and from different disciplines, to consider conceptual arguments and case study material. In doing so the volume identifies key c...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Entrepreneurship, Investment and Spatial Dynamics
Edited by Peter Nijkamp, Ronald L. Moomaw, Iulia Traistaru-Siedschlag
Enlargement of the EU increases economic diversity and inequality between countries and regions, making cohesion difficult. This book attempts to provide a deeper understanding of the interaction between investment, knowledge spillovers ... -
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Regional Climate Change and Variability
Edited by Matthias Ruth, Kieran Donaghy, Paul Kirshen
In its development of methodologies and their applications to individual regions, this book presents a rich set of insights and a set of guides for investment and policymaking. Each of the six studies focuses on a finer geographic scale ...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Spatial Dynamics, Networks and Modelling
Edited by Aura Reggiani, Peter Nijkamp
This important new book provides a valuable set of studies on spatial dynamics, emerging networks and modelling efforts. It employs interdisciplinary concepts alongside innovative trajectories to highlight recent advances in analysing an...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Telecommunications, Transportation and Location
Kenneth Button, Roger R. Stough, Michelle Bragg, Samantha Taylor
Telecommunications, Transportation and Location contains both sytheses and interpretations of what others have found in regard to these interactions as well as new work that extends earlier findings. The material is presented in a rigoro...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Global Regionalization
Edited by H. S. Geyer
Global Regionalization examines the astonishing political and economic changes that have completely reshaped the political geography of certain regions during the past fifteen years. It deals with the concept of global bloc formation, ex... -
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Building Knowledge Regions in North America
Leonel Corona, Jérôme Doutriaux, Sarfraz A. Mian
Focusing on emerging technology regions of the US, Canada and Mexico, the authors provide an analysis of firms’ innovative milieus in three contexts: national systems of innovation, knowledge regions and incubation mechanisms. An overvie...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Vanishing Growth in Latin America
Edited by Andrés Solimano
Economic growth in Latin America and the rise of material welfare has lagged behind that of more dynamic areas of the world economy. In a region prone to policy experiments, the policies of the Washington Consensus applied since the 1990...eBook:Find out more£25.00