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
The smart city concept, together with the growing importance of the UNs 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....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
This book will provide some ideas to help any region reinvent itself. It shows how effective leaders are needed to help stimulate more creative activity and coordinate the necessary resources to turn creative ideas into innovations. ...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
This book presents a novel approach to explaining the ability of cities to combat depopulation through the prism of urban leadership quality. It benefits from domestic empirical research, international case studies, and a survey of valuable practi...Lasīt vairāk
This book addresses regional development theories and policies, with a special focus on forgotten places, and raises emerging questions about recent theoretical advances, as well as trends and challenges in the field. The shortcomi...Lasīt vairāk
This book is 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. It fills a gap in current research, adding empirical...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
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
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
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
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
Drawing on a range of disciplinary approaches, this text 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 externa...Lasīt vairāk
