Regional Development Theories and Their Application

Regional Development Theories and Their Application
Author: Benjamin Higgins
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2017-07-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1351494112

Throughout the world today former nation-states, as disparate as Yugoslavia, Somalia, and Canada, have either disintegrated or threaten to splinter into regions. The conflicts are economic, social, ethnic, linguistic, religious, political, and cultural. Higgins and Savoie analyze the reasons for these conflicts and show why attempts to eliminate regional disparities within nations have been largely unsuccessful. This volume is a highly readable, comprehensive survey of the literature and current debates in the fields of regional economics, development, policy, and planning.

Development Issues In Marginal Regions

Development Issues In Marginal Regions
Author: R.B. Singh
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2019-03-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0429723849

Rapid population growth, demand for increased food resources and other political,economic and social stresses have all contributed to building up pressure fordevelopment of marginal regions in both developed and developing countries.Ecological issues are also adding up to and increasing marginalization of regionsand social groups due to the pressure on natural resources. Broadly speakingmarginal regions are perceived in concepts of centre-periphery (fringes) and boundariesand frontiers. In developing countries marginal regicns are the combinedeffects of ecological, economic and social factors. For understanding the abovecomplex issues, the Study Group on Development Issues in Marginal Regionswas established in August 1992 at the Washington International GeographicalCongress.

Reflections and Extensions on Key Papers of the First Twenty-Five Years of Advances

Reflections and Extensions on Key Papers of the First Twenty-Five Years of Advances
Author: Jerome A. Katz
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2018-12-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1787564363

Written and edited by some of the world’s leading entrepreneurship academics, this anniversary volume showcases three of the most influential chapters from the series, along with author reflections, as well as new papers showing how these classic ideas connect and energize leading-edge contemporary research in entrepreneurship and related fields.

Battle Grounds

Battle Grounds
Author: P. Whitney Lackenbauer
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2011-11-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0774840021

Base closures, use of airspace for weapons testing and low-level flying, environmental awareness, and Aboriginal land claims have focused attention in recent years on the use of Native lands for military training. But is the military's interest in Aboriginal lands new? Battle Grounds analyzes a century of government-Aboriginal interaction and negotiation to explore how the Canadian military came to use Aboriginal lands for training. It examines what the process reveals about the larger and evolving relationship between governments and Aboriginal communities and how increasing Aboriginal assertiveness and activism have affected the issue.

Regional Development and Planning for the 21st Century

Regional Development and Planning for the 21st Century
Author: Allen G. Noble
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2018-12-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0429833342

Published in 1998, Regional Development and Planning for the 21st Century examines a number of related themes including: the traditional approach of local and regional planning initiatives developed within the context of national goals; the current decline of bi-polar political and ideological blocs; political decentralization and concurrent economic centralization including the growth of multi-national corporations; devolution of centralized planning powers to regions and localities, and the rise and acceptance of sustainable development concepts. The book is divided into five parts addressing: 1 - adjustments to political, economic and social change; 2 the problems of urban housing and housing and health; 3 - adjustments to environmental change, development policies and sustainability; 4 - the problem of rapid urban growth and mega cities; 5 - adjustments of changing urban networks. The contributors are from several countries worldwide and the chapters examine the issues at a global level.

The Economy of East Central Europe, 1815-1989

The Economy of East Central Europe, 1815-1989
Author: David Turnock
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 541
Release: 2004-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134678762

From an expert in the field, this major survey includes new research and recent changes in the region and, reviewing two centuries of modernization, examines the history of Eastern European economies within a wider political and ideological context.