Urban Regional category: 846 books
Foreign Direct Investment, Governance, and the Environment in China
Regional Dimensions
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
This book links the environment and corruption with China's large inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI). It investigates the effects of economic development and foreign investment on pollution in China; the effects of corruption and governance quality on FDI location choice in China.
Hub Cities in the Knowledge Economy
Seaports, Airports, Brainports
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
The overarching research topic addressed in this book is the complex and multifaceted interaction between infrastructural accessibility/connectivity of city-regions on the one hand and knowledge generation in these city-regions on the other hand. To this end, the book brings together chapters analysing...
by Johan Woltjer, Ernest Alexander, Matthias Ruth
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
In recent years, there has been an increasing emphasis placed on local and regional integration in major planning projects and infrastructure development including roads, rail and waterways. This emphasis is not only on integrating various projects, but also integrating them with related issues such...
The Theory of Mixed Oligopoly
Privatization, Transboundary Activities, and Their Applications
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
This book outlines the core concept of the theory of mixed oligopoly and presents recent results that have arisen in a mixed oligopolistic market. The wave of privatization since the 1980s has taken the development of the theory of mixed oligopoly in several directions. Although the main concern of...
by Kenneth J. Lipartito, Joseph A. Pratt
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
As counsel for Pennzoil's successful effort to recover billions of dollars in damages from Texaco over the acquisition of Getty Oil Company, the Baker & Botts law firm of Houston, Texas, achieved wide public recognition in the 1980s. But among its peers in the legal and corporate worlds, Baker & Botts...
Transport and Logistics in a Globalizing World
A Focus on Italy
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
Globalization of the economy, fragmentation of the production process, increasing externalization of TNCs activities through their global value chains and the widespread adoption of Just-in-Time have increased the flows of raw materials, intermediate goods and finished products, with a direct effect...
Integrated Spatial and Transport Infrastructure Development
The Case of the European North-South Corridor Rotterdam-Genoa
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
The challenge of growth in transport, especially in freight transport, and scarce resources in money, landscape and local opposition against new infrastructure investment require new solutions from transport policy. This book deals with these issues taking as an example the transport corridor...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
The geography of networks and R&D collaborations, in particular the spatial dimension of interactions between organisations performing joint R&D, have attracted a burst of attention in the last decade, both in the scientific study of the networks and in the policy sector. The volume is intended...
Manufacturing Exports from Indian States
Determinants and Policy Imperatives
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
This book investigates the less-explored dimensions of how industries in different Indian subnational spaces or states have responded to the growing phenomenon of internationalization. What factors have influenced firms participating in global business? Have state (both central and provincial) policies...
Tourism Economics
Impact Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
The assessment of local, regional or national impacts of an influx of tourists – of different kind and origin – has in recent years become a new challenge for economics research in the tourism sector. There is a clear need to develop solid methodologies through which the socio-economic impacts...
Great Powers and Geopolitics
International Affairs in a Rebalancing World
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
This book presents the theoretical-historical-comparative political framework needed to fully grasp the truly dynamic nature of 21st century global affairs. The author provides a realistic assessment of the shift from U.S predominance to a new mix of counterbalancing rival middle-tier and assertive...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2018
This book presents endeavors to join synergies in order to create added value for society, using the latest scientific knowledge to boost technology transfer from academia to industry. It potentiates the foundations for the creation of knowledge- and entrepreneurial cooperation networks involving...
Value Chains in Sub-Saharan Africa
Challenges of Integration into the Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2019
Development largely depends on how given places participate in global economic processes.The contributions to this book address various features of the integration of sub-Saharan Africa into the world economy via value chains, so as to explain corresponding challenges and opportunities. The book deals...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
The book provides a detailed analysis of the causes of West Africa’s current economic high-growth episode and proposes ways to extend it sustainably. It examines the potential role of regional integration through the establishment of a common currency union and of other policy options that can enhance...