Universities are core institutions of the Knowledge Economy, and alongside firms and other research organisations, develop and promote knowledge within local economies. At the same time, they are obliged to deal with a global market, and participa...Lasīt vairāk
This book examines how cross-border mobility across the eastern border of Poland with Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, driven by external shocks, influences different territorial units. It offers a new understanding of the determinants, dynamics, spat...Lasīt vairāk
This book explores the management of sustainability issues in the context of the rural enterprise economy. It develops a common understanding of the necessary key terminology and core concepts in a still largely underexplored yet rapidly expanding...Lasīt vairāk
This book uniquely highlights the vital role of ICTs in migration decisions, journeys, and settlement, with a focus on Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). It provides a balanced mix of theoretical analysis and practical insights, helping readers com...Lasīt vairāk
The focus of this book is the processes through which industries and regions grow and decline in capitalist economies via an investigation of the trajectory of change in the North East of England.How and why did its economy grow from the s...Lasīt vairāk
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the challenges modern cities face in the context of climate change and urban development. By integrating varied viewpoints, it delves into the concept of sustainable and smart cities and sheds light o...Lasīt vairāk
This book develops a new methodological framework for measuring the efficiency of regional integration and the integration profile of member states. It includes rich case studies, which offer a comparative analysis of ten integrations spanning fou...Lasīt vairāk
The Eastern Partnership (EaP) was launched in 2009 to strengthen institutional, economic and political relations between the European Union (EU) and the six Partnership countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine). Further...Lasīt vairāk
Urban allometry empirically describes how things, for example crime, GPD, emissions, energy use, area, street length, housing prices, etc. change in cities when their size, in terms of population, increases. Urban scaling is a relatively recent...Lasīt vairāk
Regional technology-based economic development and the recruitment and retention of talent is a top priority of city-regions in the United States and in countries around the world. However, policy recommendations from government officials, industry...Lasīt vairāk
Unequal distribution of income is one of the most important socio-economic issues. The processes of globalisation and integration are accelerating economic growth; however, at the same time, imbalances between regions are growing. Reducing inequal...Lasīt vairāk
The Covid-19 pandemic upended our social and economic lives. Lockdowns forced firms to implement health and safety protocols, employees to work from home, and businesses of all sorts to close. Even as lockdowns eased, the landscape of work, commerce...Lasīt vairāk
This book navigates the connection points between EU policies and spatial planning by introducing the logics of EU policymaking and European spatial planning, outlining the most relevant EU policies with relevance for spatial planning and presenti...Lasīt vairāk
This book argues that a resilient region should act reactively and proactively in the face of shocks and disruptions and asserts that the institutionalization of regional cooperation may be the answer to development challenges in times of uncertaint...Lasīt vairāk
Despite the conventional wisdom that affordable housing, either in the form of home ownership or through access to rental units, has beneficial effects for households, society and the economy more broadly, there is a noteworthy lack of empirical stu...Lasīt vairāk
This book analyses regional development policy or the lack thereof in the Southern African Development Community (SADC), which also forms a key trading bloc on the African continent as well as the Global South. It explores the main attributes releva...Lasīt vairāk
The 2010 General Election ushered in a first coalition government in the United Kingdom for four decades and symbolised a marked shift in the nature and form of economic development. This book aims to investigate the theory and practice of the pol...Lasīt vairāk
The aim of this publication is to look in depth at depopulation, a trend that is affecting an increasing number of cities worldwide. It has recently become a critical issue with a range of detrimental social, economic, spatial, and financial consequ...Lasīt vairāk
Many communities and regions are being left behind in the new economic order. The book starts with the premise that, in todays knowledge-based economy, innovation is key, but that only seems to happen in larger urban centres. It seems that smaller...Lasīt vairāk
The smart city concept, together with the growing importance of the UN s Sustainable Development Goals, has a significant impact on city management and governance. This book examines real cases of smart city management across Asia and Europe. It co...Lasīt vairāk
The shortcomings of traditional regional policies led to a major policy. Thus, regions have become more active in the design and implementation of policies, following a bottom-up approach, involving the participation of the local community in strate...Lasīt vairāk
This book constitutes a novel contribution, combining recent theoretical developments and empirical contributions, as well as the recent and latest trends and challenges on the issue of Forgotten Spaces. Forgotten Spaces - like the Forgotten Regions...Lasīt vairāk
The book walks the reader behind the closed doors of working homes that make the fabric, both social and economic, of most cities. It applies a visual methodology to reveal their space-use intensity and quantify the extent to which houses in inf...Lasīt vairāk
This book provides a detailed overview of Central European urban heritage. It examines the key aspects of urban heritage - tangible/monumental, natural/landscape, world heritage/urban quarter and heritage experience/dark heritage. ...Lasīt vairāk
Increasing urbanisation and industrial development are occurring at the expense of shrinking forest cover and agricultural land in South Asia. Various land uses compete with each other, reducing forests and farmlands. This book addresses urbanisat...Lasīt vairāk
Drawing on a range of disciplinary approaches, this monograph explores the drivers of urban development. Through an evolutionary lens, cities are shown to find a development path amidst an ever-changing landscape, sometimes facing extreme external...Lasīt vairāk
This book offers both a theoretical and practical analysis of the contemporary approach to culture and innovation, with special emphasis on the relationship between culture, innovation and the economy. Its key theme is the role and possibility of...Lasīt vairāk
In recent years, new definitions of cities and countries and the regions within them have emerged. In particular, how a region comes to be considered as rural or urban or somewhere in between has been a subject of some debate.This has l...Lasīt vairāk
The economic system of competitive capitalism has proven to be both resilient and flexible over time and has contributed to the economic welfare of citizens in liberal and coordinated market economies in a variety of regions and countries. At the sa...Lasīt vairāk
Clusters and Sustainable Regional Development conceptualises the role of organised clusters in the transition towards sustainability. It introduces a novel perspective on these clusters, viewing them as deliberate collective actors within their en...Lasīt vairāk
