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This volume shows that in today's globalized world, clusters are an important factor in explaining the different growth rates of firms, cities and regions. Drawing on the expertise of an international contributor team, it covers topics such as: clusters and SME competitiveness; innovation and…
Hardback – 2019-04-15
Routledge
Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
Mountain regions are subject to a unique set of economic pressures: they act as collective enterprises which have to valorize rare resources, such as spectacular landscapes. While primarily rural in nature, they often border large cities, and the development of industries such as hydroelectric…
Hardback – 2019-01-25
Routledge
Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
Borders are critical to the development and survival of modern states, offer security against external threats, and mark public policy and identity difference. At the same time, borders, and borderlands, are places where people, ideas, and economic goods meet and intermingle. The United…
Hardback – 2018-11-20
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Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
Science is increasingly defined by multidimensional collaborative networks. Despite the unprecedented growth of scientific collaboration around the globe – the collaborative turn – geography still matters for the cognitive enterprise. This book explores how geography conditions scientific…
Hardback – 2018-10-25
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Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
Gastronomy, particularly gourmet tourism, is widely acknowledged as having a powerful impact on local development. Public policies have developed in response to research, highlighting gastronomy as key in a successful tourism economy. However, research thus far has not fully explored the underlying…
Hardback – 2018-10-22
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Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
In the twenty-first century technology has become global, and firms compete using knowledge and capital. The ‘traditional firm’ has a need for innovation and depends on efficient knowledge management to improve productivity. This book examines five firms that produce the same commodity, white…
Hardback – 2018-03-13
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Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
Ageing population and rapid urbanisation are the two major demographic shifts in today’s world. Architectural designs and urban policies have to deal with issues of an ever larger elderly population living in the cities, especially in old urban neighbourhoods, while also taking into consideration…
Hardback – 2018-02-08
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Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
In Australia, regions are not just geographic locations, they are also cultural ideas. Being regional means being located outside the nation’s capital cities and in the periphery of its centres of power and influence. Regional development in Australia is thus significantly different than…
Paperback – 2018-01-03
Routledge
Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
Broadband is one of the most transformative technologies of the 21st century, yet our understanding of its regional impacts remains somewhat rudimentary. Not only are issues of broadband pricing and speed relevant in this context, but the overall quality of service for broadband can often dictate…
Paperback – 2017-12-18
Routledge
Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
Housing is crucial to the quality of life and wellbeing for individuals and familes, but the availability of adequate or affordable housing also plays a vital role in community economic development. Rural areas face a substantial disadvantage compared to urban areas in regard to housing, and this…
Hardback – 2017-12-05
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Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
In the 1970s and following on from the deposition of Salvador Allende, the Chilean dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet installed a radical political and economic system by force which lent heavy privilege to free market capitalism, reduced the power of the state to its minimum and actively suppressed…
Hardback – 2017-08-23
Routledge
Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
Recent technological advancements and other related factors and trends are contributing to the production of an astoundingly large and rapidly accelerating collection of data, or ‘Big Data’. This data now allows us to examine urban and regional phenomena in ways that were previously not possible.…
Hardback – 2017-08-15
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Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
Processes of multi-scalar regional urbanization are occurring worldwide. Such processes are clearly distinguishable from those of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries due to the shifting concepts of both the city and the metropolis. International literature highlights how what we have…
Hardback – 2017-01-25
Routledge
Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
The concept of smart cities has become one of the most significant new lines of thinking to emerge in the social sciences in recent years, both from the research and policy angles. To date, the focus in smart specialization has been on what regions as a whole can do to bring about innovation, but…
Hardback – 2016-09-09
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Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
This book highlights the extraordinary range of areas to which geographical analysis and spatial modelling can bring lessons and insights. It shows how these techniques have been used to address ‘real world’ issues that are of concern to international organisations, public agencies and businesses,…
Hardback – 2016-09-08
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Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
All over the world societies are facing a number of major problems. New developments, challenges and opportunities cause these issues and yet cases tell us that traditional spatial planning responses and tools are often insufficient to tackle these problems and challenges. Situated Practices of…
Hardback – 2016-07-25
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Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
Solid waste is a major urban challenge worldwide and decisions over which technologies or methods to apply can have beneficial or detrimental long-term consequences. Inappropriate management of solid waste can lead to damaging environmental impacts, particularly in the megacities of the Global…
Hardback – 2016-05-10
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Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
Research interest in the service sector has boomed in recent years as deindustrialisation became entrenched. Instead of being regarded as merely supplementary to traditional industry and manufacturing, services have generated progressively rising levels of growth in developed economies while at the…
Hardback – 2016-05-09
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Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
Tourism has become one of the largest and fastest growing sectors in the world economy. Increasingly, research on tourism destinations has been at the centre of debates concerning destination competitiveness, governance, policies and destination management and marketing. This book investigates…
Hardback – 2015-12-07
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Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
The last twenty years have seen an increase in European integration and the emergence of the technological revolution. Although tighter integration coupled with technological innovation should facilitate cross-regional convergence, some European regions have managed to jump ahead while others have…
Hardback – 2015-10-20
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Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
In recent decades urban regions around the world have engaged in a new process of development based on the creation of new knowledge. Amidst the globalization of economic activities and the arrival of transformative technologies, knowledge has become the key driver of competitiveness and is…
Hardback – 2015-10-12
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Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
Chicago went from nothing in 1830 to become the second-largest city in the nation in 1900, while the Midwest developed to become one of the world’s foremost urban areas. This book is an economic history of the Chicago metropolitan area from the 1820s to the present. It examines the city in its…
Hardback – 2015-08-20
Routledge
Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
An electronic version of this book is available Open Access at www.tandfebooks.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. One of the major challenges of urban development has been reconciling the way cities develop with the…
Hardback – 2015-08-11
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Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
This edited volume describes the spatial diffusion of knowledge and innovation using a large dataset at the regional level, and presents scientific evidence on the role of knowledge and innovation on regional development. The empirical results support a new design for innovation policies at the…
Paperback – 2015-06-25
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Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
This book explores the dynamics of place, location and territories from the perspective of an experience-based economy. It offers a valuable contribution to this new approach and the planning and management challenges it faces. This book emphasises three key avenues to understanding the experience…
Hardback – 2015-05-21
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Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
In the last few decades, urban quality of life has received increasing interest from policy makers who aim to make cities better places to live. In addition to the aim of improving quality of life, sustainable and equitable development is also often included in the policy agendas of decision makers…
Hardback – 2015-04-13
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Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
The task of modelling the evolution of cities – the dynamics – is one of the major challenges of the social sciences. This book presents mathematical and computer models of urban and regional dynamics and shows how advances in computer visualisation provide new insights. Models of non-linear…
Hardback – 2015-04-02
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Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
Agriculture, mining and related rural industries have been central to the development of Australia’s economy. This book details the role that the Australian Government has played in the making of rural and regional Australia, particularly since World War II. The book reviews these policies and…
Hardback – 2014-09-16
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Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
Since the emergence of urban systems, cities have developed in a mutually inter-dependent process of socio-economic dynamics and transportation linkages. In recent years, Airports worldwide have stepped beyond the stage of being pure infrastructure facilities while the complex dynamics that are…
Hardback – 2014-08-26
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Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
The onset of the global crisis has emphasised the persistence of substantial differences in development and social progress within the euro area. The specific case of countries located in the southern periphery region has come to the centre stage, due to the harsh economic conditions that all these…
Hardback – 2014-06-13
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Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
Globalization affects urban communities in many ways. One of its manifestations is increased intercity competition, which compels cities to increase their attractiveness in terms of capital, entrepreneurship, information, expertise and consumption. This competition takes place in an asymmetric…
Hardback – 2014-02-06
Routledge
Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy