Economic Geography

The Future of Europe's Rural Peripheries..

This book considers the impact of the last 10 years of Deng Xiaoping's rule on China's physical environment, as well as its people, industry, agriculture and trade. It assesses the contribution of this decade towards regional development, urbanization, the environment and geopolitics...

This volume provides a survey of the world’s iron-ore resources during the 1960s and the distribution of the iron and steel industries. There are specific chapters on the UK , Western Europe, the USSR, the USA and smaller sections on Africa, Latin America and South East Asia. Particular attention is..

This volume provides a survey of the world’s iron-ore resources during the 1960s and the distribution of the iron and steel industries. There are specific chapters on the UK , Western Europe, the USSR, the USA and smaller sections on Africa, Latin America and South East Asia. Particular attention is..

This extensively revised second edition draws together an interdisciplinary collection of the most important political, geographical, historical and sociological readings of geopolitics in the early twenty-first century...

_x005F_x000D_ The aim of this book is to consider theoretically the notion of the global competitiveness of regions, as well as giving attention as to how such competitiveness may be empirically measured. With this in mind, the book has three specific objectives: first, to place the concept of regio..

This book presents recent, well-developed and interdisciplinary scholarship about the variety of mechanisms governing global food systems and their impacts on human and environmental well-being..

This book presents recent, well-developed and interdisciplinary scholarship about the variety of mechanisms governing global food systems and their impacts on human and environmental well-being..

At the time this book was originally published in 1985 Italy was one of Europe’s leading industrial nations. This volume provides a comprehensive overview of Italian industry during the 1980s. It introduces Italy’s physical and human resources and outlines the historical development of the industry...

Providing a broad overview of the economics of land-use change, this book is a key contribution to contemporary land-use studies, highlighting the main methodological and public policy issues that will be central to future research...

Providing a broad overview of the economics of land-use change, this book is a key contribution to contemporary land-use studies, highlighting the main methodological and public policy issues that will be central to future research...

This book discusses city branding from the perspective of numerous post-industrial cities in North America, Europe, East Asia and Australasia...