Urban Regional category: 846 books
New Metropolitan Perspectives
Local Knowledge and Innovation Dynamics Towards Territory Attractiveness Through the Implementation of Horizon/E2020/Agenda2030 – Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2018
This book explores the role of cities and the urban–rural linkages in spurring innovation embedded in spatial planning, strategic and economic planning, and decision support systems. In particular, the contributions examine the complexity of the current transitional phase towards achieving smart,...
New Metropolitan Perspectives
Local Knowledge and Innovation Dynamics Towards Territory Attractiveness Through the Implementation of Horizon/E2020/Agenda2030 – Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
This book explores the role of cities and the urban–rural linkages in spurring innovation embedded in spatial planning, strategic and economic planning, and decision support systems. In particular, the contributions examine the complexity of the current transitional phase towards achieving smart,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
This book focuses on urbanization as an attendant consequence of industrialization and sheds light on urban problems such as housing shortages and poverty of jobless people, and the housing and social policies implemented by central and local governments to deal with these problems. Through this book,...
by Toshiharu Ishikawa
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
This book clarifies the mechanisms of economic globalization in changing industries’ locations and shows how industries’ locations have changed through those mechanisms. First, the book deals with the retailing industry. Introducing the concept of a contact price into the market area analysis,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
The world's leading experts contribute to our understanding of regional innovation, cluster formation and the factors that influence regional productivity and innovative performance. The text improves our understanding of the reasons why, how and where innovation clusters emerge, as well as the factors...
Tourism and the Environment
Regional, Economic and Policy Issues
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The issue of maintaining a balanced relationship between tourism and the environment has received considerable attention since the 1970s. However, only in the 1980s and 1990s did it become a topic of systematic academic inquiry and research, distinguished from the broader area of the environmental...
by AnnaLee Saxenian
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1996
Why is it that business in California's Silicon Valley flourished while along Route 128 in Massachusetts declined in the 90s? The answer, Saxenian suggests, has to do with the fact that despite similar histories and technologies, Silicon Valley developed a decentralized but cooperative industrial system...
Innovative ICT Industrial Architecture in East Asia
Offshoring of Japanese Firms and Challenges Faced by East Asian Economies
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
This book aims to shed light on the potentially innovative ICT (information and communication technology) architectures from an East Asian regional perspective. The business environment brought about by the development of ICT intensified global competition and caused dramatic changes in the industrial...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
The Asian Economic Integration Report is an annual review of Asia's regional economic cooperation and integration. It covers the 48 regional members of the Asian Development Bank. This issue's theme chapter is "What Drives Foreign Direct Investment in Asia and the Pacific?"
Health and Wellness Tourism
Emergence of a New Market Segment
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
This book aims to contribute to the literature and aid in developing a theoretical and practical framework in the area of health and wellness tourism. With contributions and research from different countries using a practical approach, this book is an essential source for students, researchers and...
by Marco Percoco
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
The evaluation of public policies is of paramount importance for modern policy making, especially in a period of severe budget constraints. The literature has proposed several methods to deal with the issue of causality and counterfactual evaluation in a variety of contexts, with an increasing attention...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
East Asia enjoyed a role as a growth center of the world economy from the 1960s until the currency and economic crisis of 1997. In 1993, the World Bank issued a report entitled "The East Asian Miracle: Economic Growth and Public Policy," in which the bank expressed its admiration for the...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
The East–West Economic Corridor (EWEC) was launched in 1998 as a flagship initiative of the Greater Mekong Subregion. EWEC has since achieved many of its infrastructure targets and must now be transformed from a transport corridor into an economic corridor. This report reviews and updates the Pre-Investment...
Collaborative Approach to Trade
Enhancing Connectivity in Sea- and Land-Locked Countries
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
This book applies regional analysis to the challenges facing global investment agencies seeking to enhance trade in lagging regions. It shows how spatial interaction and agent-based modelling can be used as the basis for developing new plans and policies. An in-depth analysis of trade routes is presented,...