Regional Economics
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Entrepreneurship and Innovations in Functional Regions
Edited by Charlie Karlsson, Roger R. Stough, Borje Johansson
In recent decades, the world has witnessed the emergence of a global knowledge economy in which functional regions increasingly play a role as independent and dynamic market places. These are integrated with other functional regions by m... -
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Distributional Impacts of Climate Change and Disasters
Edited by Matthias Ruth, María E. Ibarrarán
Climate change tends to increase the frequency and intensity of weather-related disasters, which puts many people at risk. Economic, social and environmental impacts further increase vulnerability to disasters and tend to set back develo...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Universities, Knowledge Transfer and Regional Development
Edited by Attila Varga
The transfer of new, economically useful knowledge from universities to the regional economy has recently attracted the attention of academics, professionals and policymakers alike. This book focuses on three issues at the centre of curr... -
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The Dynamics of Regions and Networks in Industrial Ecosystems
Edited by Matthias Ruth, Brynhildur Davidsdottir
Industrial ecology provides a rigorous and comprehensive description of human production and consumption processes in the larger context of environmental and socioeconomic change. This volume offers methodologies for such descriptions, w...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Regional Knowledge Economies
Philip Cooke, Carla De Laurentis, Franz Tödtling, Michaela Trippl
This original and timely book presents the most comprehensive, empirically based analysis of clustering dynamics in the high-technology sector across liberal and co-ordinated market economies.eBook:Find out more£44.76
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Migration and Human Capital
Edited by Jacques Poot, Brigitte Waldorf, Leo van Wissen
Throughout the world, migration is an increasingly important and diverse component of population change, both at national and sub-national levels. Migration impacts on the distribution of knowledge and generates externalities and spillov... -
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Technological Change and Mature Industrial Regions
Edited by Mahtab A. Farshchi, Odile E.M. Janne, Philip McCann
Technological Change and Mature Industrial Regions explicitly adopts an inter-disciplinary approach to analysing the structural transformation of mature regions. The major focus of the book is from an economics perspective, but it also e... -
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Regional Economic Policy in Europe
Edited by Ulrike Stierle-von Schütz, Michael H. Stierle, Frederic B. Jennings Jr, Adrian T.H. Kuah
Regional Economic Policy in Europe presents a tightly focused selection of policy, empirical and theoretical perspectives on contemporary dimensions of regional economic policy in the EU. It concentrates on three areas; the dissimilariti... -
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Economic Integration in East Asia
Edited by Masahisa Fujita, Satoru Kumagai, Koji Nishikimi
Increasing numbers of free trade and economic partnership agreements have been concluded among many countries in East Asia, and economic integration has progressed rapidly on both a de facto and de jure basis. However, as the authors of ...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Linkages between China’s Regions
Nicolaas Groenewold, Anping Chen, Guoping Lee
The rate of economic growth in China over the last 50 years has been remarkable. However this has only highlighted the inequalities between regions in China, making for considerable disquiet at the highest levels of Chinese policy-making...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Networks, Governance and Economic Development
Edited by Mari Jose Aranguren Querejeta, Cristina Iturrioz Landart, James R. Wilson
This compact and authoritative book brings together the topical themes of networks and governance to advance understanding of the determinants of local economic development in the context of increasingly global relationships.eBook:Find out more£25.00
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The Economics of Regional Clusters
Edited by Uwe Blien, Gunther Maier
This important book takes a critical view on regional industry clusters, in particular their identification and formation, and the policies which help create and support them.eBook:Find out more£25.00