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The Geography of Creativity
Gunnar Törnqvist
What is creativity and who exactly is creative? In this insightful and highly readable book, Gunnar Törnqvist attempts to answer these questions by arguing that geographical millieux are hotbeds for creativity and renewal – places where ...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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New Directions in Social Impact Assessment
Edited by Frank Vanclay, Ana Maria Esteves
This important new book outlines current developments in thinking in the field of Social Impact Assessment (SIA). It advances the theory and practice of SIA, and argues that a dramatic shift is required in the way socioeconomic studies a...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index 2012
Zoltán J. Ács, László Szerb
The Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index both captures the context features of entrepreneurship and fills a gap in the measurement of development. Building on recent advances in entrepreneurship and economic development, the aut...eBook:Find out more£48.00
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International Handbook of Urban Policy, Volume 3
Edited by H. S. Geyer
This important Handbook reveals that most urban growth takes place in the less developed world and much of it represents over-urbanization – that is, urbanization in which most migrants cannot effectively compete for employment, cannot f...eBook:Find out more£48.00
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Migration and Culture
Edited by Robin Cohen, Gunvor Jónsson
Migration and Culture marks a first in providing a comprehensive collection of published articles linking migration and culture. Prior approaches to migration have often stressed statistical and economic factors. The theoretically challe... -
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Media Clusters
Edited by Charlie Karlsson, Robert G. Picard
This impressive new book uniquely focuses on the phenomenon of media clusters and is designed to inform policy makers, scholars, and media practitioners about the underlying challenges of media firm agglomerations, their potential, and t...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Gateways to Globalisation
Edited by François Gipouloux
Asia’s trading and financial hubs have become global cities which frequently have more in common and closer linkages with each other than with their corresponding hinterlands. As this book expounds, these global cities illustrate to what...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Entrepreneurship, Growth and Economic Development
Edited by Mário Raposo, David Smallbone, Károly Balaton, Lilla Hortoványi
This timely book presents contemporary research on the key role of entrepreneurship in firm growth and development strategies. The contributors reveal that a high level of entrepreneurial activity contributes to economic growth, innovati...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Industrial Clusters, Upgrading and Innovation in East Asia
Edited by Akifumi Kuchiki, Masatsugu Tsuji
This lucid and informative book analyzes the problem of clusters in transition through studies of agglomerations at different stages of development in various East Asian countries.eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Governing Disasters
Edited by Alberto Alemanno
This is the first volume that addresses the complexities of the volcanic ash cloud that overshadowed Europe in April 2011, but has subsequently struck again in Australia, Chile and Europe. It does so from a multidisciplinary perspective,...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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The Asian Mediterranean
François Gipouloux
This insightful book draws upon a wide range of disciplines – political economy, geography and international relations – to examine how Asia has returned to its central position in the world economy.eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Spatial Scenarios in a Global Perspective
Edited by Roberto Camagni, Roberta Capello
This up-to-date and insightful book presents post-crisis scenarios for European regions with new methodologies and tools to support quantitative assessment and foresight. The aim is to develop regional forecasting methodologies and tools...eBook:Find out more£25.00
