Bringing together case studies from Canada, the Nordic countries and Russia, this book is the first to provide a comparative examination of the current transformations in the forest industry regimes and the challenges these make for the communities dependent on this industry. It focuses on individua..
Bringing together case studies from Canada, the Nordic countries and Russia, this book is the first to provide a comparative examination of the current transformations in the forest industry regimes and the challenges these make for the communities dependent on this industry. It focuses on individua..
This groundbreaking volume is one of the first to address questions related to the development of producer services in China. The contributions explore a wide range of associated topics including the characteristics of the growth of producer services and how this is related to China’s economic and u..
This groundbreaking volume is one of the first to address questions related to the development of producer services in China. The contributions explore a wide range of associated topics including the characteristics of the growth of producer services and how this is related to China’s economic and u..
This edited collection, first published in 1985, deals with a number of the major themes central to the study of industrial geography. Topics under discussion include new methodologies, the growing service industries, foreign investment and the industrial geography of the developing world...
This book examines the question of the significance of proximate vs. more distant relationships for economic agents' performance and local economic development, and includes empirical studies from around the world. It suggests that the notions of diversity, innovativeness, maturity and multiple scal..
Originally published in 1979. This volume brings together the work of distinguished demographers, geographers, statisticians and policy-makers who look in detail at various mechanisms by which regional population structures develop...
Originally published in 1984. This volume brings together papers concerned with the problems of regional development in both Eastern and Western Europe. These include regional, economic, and social inequalities; lagging and backward regions; and constricted flows of labour...
Originally published in 1983, when Europe’s economies were facing the worst recession since the 1930s, this book reviews the outcome of a quarter of a century of research and practical experience in the field of regional economic management...
Originally published in 1979. This book sets out an operational planning technique, termed the Generation of Regional Input-Output Tables (GRIT), which facilitates the examination both of the economic structure of individual regions in reasonable detail, and of the regional structure of the state ec..
Originally published in 1984. A range of concerns about resource exploitation in Australia's resource-rich, sparsely populated areas are canvassed in this volume, encompassing views of policy-makers, planners and academics. It addresses social and economic impacts ranging over manufacturing and tert..