Urban and Regional Studies
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Private Property in the 21st Century
Edited by Harvey M. Jacobs
Private property is central to American character, culture and democracy. The founding fathers understood it as key to the liberties America was designed to foster. However, over the last 200 years what one owns has evolved; ownership is...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Moving Towards the Virtual Workplace
Viviane IIIegems, Alain Verbeke
Moving Towards the Virtual Workplace provides the first comprehensive overview of the many impacts of telework/telecommuting adoption, from both a managerial and societal perspective. This book argues that telework will be increasingly a... -
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Irregular Migration
Bill Jordan, Franck Düvell
Irregular Migration is an extremely timely and topical book, analysing the fundamental tensions at the core of present attempts to manage the movement of population in today’s world. Recent events around the globe have prompted a reappra... -
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Return Migration in the Asia Pacific
Edited by Robyn Iredale, Fei Guo, Santi Rozario
Globalisation and social transformation theorists have paid significantly less attention to the movement of people than they have to the movement of capital. This book redresses the balance and provides timely insights into recent deve...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Innovation and the Growth of Cities
Zoltán J. Ács
This new and original book by Zoltan Acs explores the relationship between industrial innovation and economic growth at the regional level, and reaches conclusions as to why some regions grow but others decline. While the analysis draws ...eBook:Find out more$58.36
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The Dynamics of Innovation Clusters
Magnus Lagnevik, Ingegerd Sjöholm, Anders Lareke, Jacob Östberg
This book provides an in-depth analysis of the processes of innovation found in industrial clusters. The authors focus particularly on the characteristics of innovation clusters and their operation in the food industry. This is revealed ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Migration in the Asia Pacific
Edited by Robyn Iredale, Charles Hawksley, Stephen Castles
This book examines the overall trends and labour patterns of migrants, their relationship with the state, and the impacts they have on the societies in which they work and sometimes settle. The book adopts a multidisciplinary perspective...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Cooperation, Networks and Institutions in Regional Innovation Systems
Edited by Dirk Fornahl, Thomas Brenner
This book addresses the role of cooperation, networks and institutions in the context of regional innovation systems. It emphasises the importance of these factors in the emergence of local innovation systems, using detailed examples of ... -
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Economic Convergence and Divergence in Europe
Edited by Gertrude Tumpel-Gugerell, Peter Mooslechner
This highly topical book addresses the challenge of economic convergence within Europe, beginning with a thorough review of the theory of growth and related empirical research. Historical and more recent economic developments within the ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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From Industrial Districts to Local Development
Giacomo Becattini, Marco Bellandi, Gabi Dei Ottati, Fabio Sforzi
From Industrial Districts to Local Development introduces a set of papers representing the main contribution of the ‘Florence school’ to the recent literature on industrial districts. The authors illustrate that the revitalisation of the... -
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International Handbook of Urban Systems
Edited by H. S. Geyer
This authoritative Handbook provides a comprehensive account of migration and economic development throughout the world, in both developed and developing countries. Some of the world’s most experienced researchers in this field look ... -
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European Union Port Policy
Constantinos I. Chlomoudis, Athanasios A. Pallis
A coherent common EU wide port policy has not yet been achieved, but the authors of this book argue that it has a major role to play in European integration and that its significance in this context is set to increase. European Union Por...