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  • Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics

    Edited by Gilles Duranton, Vernon Henderson, William Strange ...
    Series Book Volume 5A-5B - Handbook of Regional & Urban Economics
    Developments in methodologies, agglomeration, and a range of applied issues have characterized recent advances in regional and urban studies. Volume 5 concentrates on these developments while treating traditional subjects such as housing, the costs and benefits of cities, and policy issues beyond regional inequalities. Contributors make a habit of combining theory and empirics in each chapter, ... Read more

    $264.99 CAD

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    The Great Demographic, Spatial, Economic, and Social Transformation

    by Li Zhang, Richard LeGates, Min Zhao ...
    China's urbanization is one of the great earth-changing phenomena of recent times. The way in which China continues to urbanize will have a critical impact on the world economy, global climate change, international relations and a host of other critical issues. Understanding and responding to China's urbanization is of paramount importance to everyone. This book represents a unique exploration of ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Coming Home to New Orleans

    Neighborhood Rebuilding After Katrina

    by Karl F. Seidman ...
    Coming Home to New Orleans documents grassroots rebuilding efforts in New Orleans neighborhoods after hurricane Katrina, and draws lessons on their contribution to the post-disaster recovery of cities. The book begins with two chapters that address Katrina's impact and the planning and public sector recovery policies that set the context for neighborhood recovery. Rebuilding narratives for six New ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Climate Change, Disaster Risk, and the Urban Poor: Cities Building Resilience for a Changing World

    by Judy L. Baker ...
    Poor people living in slums are at particularly high risk from the impacts of climate change and natural hazards. They live on the most vulnerable lands within cities, typically areas that are deemed undesirable by others and are thus affordable. Residents are exposed to the impacts of landslides, sea-level rise, flooding, and other hazards. Exposure to risk is exacerbated by overcrowded living ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Global and Regional Dynamics in Knowledge Flows and Innovation

    Edited by Chris Van Egeraat, Dieter Kogler, Philip Cooke ...
    Innovation, which in essence is the generation of knowledge and its subsequent application in the marketplace in the form of novel products and processes, has become the key concept in inquiries concerning the contemporary knowledge based economy. Geography plays a decisive role in the underlying processes that enable and support knowledge formation and diffusion activities.Place specific ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Central and East European Migrants' Contributions to Social Protection

    by S. Maatsch ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    In 2001 Germany and Austria became the last EU states to lift transnational controls restricting access to their labour markets for citizens of ex-communist countries. This book challenges anti-immigration discourses to show that given the high percentage of skilled immigrants, it is the sending rather than the receiving countries who lose out. ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • The Political Discourse of Spatial Disparities

    Geographical Inequalities Between Science and Propaganda

    by Ferenc Gyuris ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This work aims to provide unique insights into the multidisciplinary research on spatial disparities from an unconventional point of view. It breaks with the conventional narrative that tends to interpret this theoretical tradition as a series of factual contributions to a better understanding of the issue. Instead, related theories are investigated in their political, economic, and social ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Co-design for a New East Asia After the Crisis

    Edited by H. Hirakawa, Y.-H. Kim ...
    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 region 's rapid economic develop ment. However, within only four years the region had fallen prey to the ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Cultural Political Economy of Small Cities

    Edited by Anne Lorentzen, Bas van Heur ...
    Series series Regions and Cities
    The volume highlights ongoing changes in the political economy of small cities in relation to the field of culture and leisure. Culture and leisure are focal points both to local entrepreneurship and to planning by city governments, which means that these developments are subject to market dynamics as well as to political discourse and action. Public-private partnerships as well as conflicts of ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • East Asia's Changing Urban Landscape

    Measuring a Decade of Spatial Growth

    by World Bank ...
    Series series Urban Development
    Urbanization is transforming the developing world. However, understanding the pace, scale, and form of urbanization has been limited by a lack of consistent data. East Asias Changing Urban Landscape aims to address this problem by using satellite imagery and other data to measure urban expansion across the East Asia and Pacific region between 2000 and 2010. Illustrated with maps and charts, it ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Regional Economic Impacts of Terrorist Attacks, Natural Disasters and Metropolitan Policies

    Edited by Harry W. Richardson, Qisheng Pan, JiYoung Park, James E. Moore II ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book presents a multiregional input-output model for the metropolitan area of Southern California, which helps to estimate the economic impact of simulated terrorist attacks on seaports, malls etc. as well as of natural disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis. The authors also analyze the economic and social effects of metropolitan policies such as growth controls, neighborhood ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Transport and Logistics in a Globalizing World

    A Focus on Italy

    by Ilaria Mariotti ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    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 on the transport and logistics industry. This industry, indeed, plays a key role in connecting the ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD