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Impact Assessment in Tourism Economics
This book presents a series of studies on the socio-economic impacts of tourism, with a special focus on the determinants of tourism competitiveness at the destination level. The authors offer a systematic overview of this important issue, presenting relevant empirical studies from different parts of the world, based on modern theoretical approaches and adequate analysis tools, in the context o…
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- 978-3-319-14919-6
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- VI, 273
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- 300 IMP
Food Security and Industrial Clustering in Northeast Asia
This book integrates diversified methodologies of area studies, regional economic development, regional science, and related fields to draw up a strategy for forming the “regional food industrial cluster” in Northeast Asia. This is done by assigning “innovation” to a core concept, with the basic problem of food security as the horizontal axis and the areas of Northeast Asia as the verti…
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- 978-4-431-55282-6
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- XII, 282 hlm.
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- New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives
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Theme Cities: Solutions for Urban Problems
This book reviews a series of new urban ideas or themes designed to help make cities more liveable, sustainable, safe and inclusive. Featuring examples drawn from cities all over the world, the various chapters provide critical assessments of each of the various approaches and their potential to improve urban life. New Urbanism: creating new areas based on a more humane scale with neighbourh…
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- 978-94-017-9655-2
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The Transnational and the Local in the Politics of Islam The Case of West Su…
This book explores the relationship between transnational and local Islam as expressed in public discourse and policy-making, as represented in the local press. It does so against the background of local governments in majority Muslim regions across Indonesia promoting and passing regulations that mandate forms of social or economic behaviour seen to be compatible with Islam. The book situates …
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- 978-3-319-15413-8
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The Towers of New Capital Mega Townships in India
With mega townships as the tool, this book analyses the complexity, scale and the challenges associated with the development paradigm in India from various built environment lenses. The Towers of New Capital is an enquiry into how these 'global fixes' are leading to territorial reorganization.
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- 978-1-137-58626-1
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The Tagore-Gandhi Debate on Matters of Truth and Untruth
Between 1915 and 1941, Tagore (1861-1941) and Gandhi (1869-1948) differed and argued about many things of personal, national, and international significance---satyagraha, non-cooperation, the boycott and burning of foreign cloth, the efficacy of fasting as a means of resistance and Gandhi’s mantra connecting “swaraj” and “charkha”. The author tracks the development of this dialogue an…
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- 978-81-322-2116-6
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The Socioeconomic Evolution of the European Union Exploring the Electronic F…
This volume explores the role of territory in the creation, maintenance and extension of a new type of frontier, the electronic frontier, from a social and economic point of view. It departs from the earlier concepts of borders – state, social, economic, ethnic, religious, etc. – to investigate the fluidity of borders and their shift towards an axis-based paradigm within the free-movement …
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- 978-3-319-40304-5
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Firms’ Location Selections and Regional Policy in the Global Economy
This book offers a new understanding of how firms determine their location and what kinds of regional economic policies are needed to attract factories to a country and a region in a highly globalized economic setting. The theoretical and empirical analyses examine the influence of the transfer pricing system, corporate tax rates, and a country’s industrial structure on a firm’s decision to…
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- 978-4-431-55366-3
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- XII, 288
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Annual Report on the Development of International Relations in the Indian Oce…
This book focuses on international relations in the Indian Ocean region and examines bilateral and multilateral relations in the Indo-Pacific region. Written by leading researchers in the fields of international studies and Indian Ocean studies, the report provides a strategic review, major events and related data in this region. It is divided into three major parts: the General Report examines…
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- 978-3-662-45940-9
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- XII, 340
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- Current Chinese Economic Report Series
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- 337 ANN a
An Introduction to Place-Based Development Economics and Policy
This book introduces the reader to local development economics and policy, with a special focus on the place-based paradigm that covers its justification, its difficulties and the types of public intervention that it suggests. The starting point for the analysis is that economic development in lagging places is not to be expected as the result of a mechanism of automatic convergence between bac…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-15377-3
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- X, 144
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- 338.9 SER i
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