Urban and Regional Studies
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The Future of Automated Freight Transport
Edited by Rob Konings, Hugo Priemus, Peter Nijkamp
This book explores the many challenges faced by the development and implementation of automated freight transport systems. It offers a unique overview of current applications, developments and future perspectives. The subject of automati...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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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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Smart Growth and Climate Change
Edited by Matthias Ruth
This invaluable book brings together two strands of applied research that to date have only been carried out in isolation from each other – ‘smart growth’ research and research into adaptation to climate change and variability. Both enta...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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New East Asian Regionalism
Edited by Charles Harvie, Fukunari Kimura, Hyun-Hoon Lee
East Asian countries – currently the most dynamic region of the global economy – have recently pursued trade liberalization through the adoption of various forms of bilateral and plurilateral Free Trade Agreements (FTAs). The book explor...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Amenities and Rural Development
Edited by Gary Paul Green, Steven C. Deller, David D. Marcouiller
Amenities and Rural Development explores the paradigmatic shift in how we view land resources and the potential for development in amenity-rich rural regions. Amenity-based growth can lead to several paths, based largely on proximity ...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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European Economic Integration and South-East Europe
Edited by Klaus Liebscher, Josef Christl, Peter Mooslechner, Doris Ritzberger-Grünwald
With both transition dynamics and the EU integration process having shifted to the south-east of Europe, a region fairly marginalized in the literature, this book fills a gap by taking stock of where South-East Europe’s economies and ins...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Cost–Benefit Analysis and Evolutionary Computing
John H.E. Taplin, Min Qiu, Vivian K. Salim, Renlong Han
This book systematically addresses the issue of interdependence between road projects in a network, when prioritising and scheduling road expansion and maintenance. The book presents substantial applications for both rural and urban pro...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Spatial Economics
Edited by Masahisa Fujita
This authoritative two-volume collection presents a selection of seminal articles investigating the spatial aspect of economic processes and development. Special attention is given to the economics of agglomeration and examining the fund... -
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The Urban Response to Internationalization
Peter Karl Kresl, Earl H. Fry
Three decades of accelerated trade and financial market liberalization have had significant and lasting impacts on the global economy and its component entities. In this volume, Peter Karl Kresl and Earl Fry examine the impacts of these ...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Regions, Land Consumption and Sustainable Growth
Edited by Oedzge Atzema, Piet Rietveld, Daniel Shefer
This book provides an in-depth investigation of the role of the private and public sectors in land markets and regional economics, and explores the reasons behind government intervention in the interests of sustainable growth.eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Urban and Regional Prosperity in a Globalised New Economy
Edited by Roger Sugden, Rita Hartung Cheng, G. Richard Meadows
There is currently a popular view that the world is undergoing profound changes in the fundamental relationships upon which it is organised. In particular, there is widespread talk of a ‘globalised’ economy, facilitated by and associated...eBook:Find out more£38.36
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Culture, Institutions and Economic Development
Michael Keating, John Loughlin, Kris Deschouwer
This book offers a systematic comparison of eight distinct regions and stateless nations, each with its own historical identity, but which is constantly being rebuilt in changing economic and political conditions. Avoiding economic or cu...