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
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 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
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
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 envir...Lasīt vairāk
Through a series of investigative studies, this book critically discusses and compares different cases, innovations and approaches as to how cities can utilise nascent and future digital technology and new strategies in order to build stronger resili...Lasīt vairāk
This book is about how cities and territories, within a Continental European context, responded to the COVID-19 pandemic and examines their respective level of preparedness or unpreparedness. It proposes preparedness as a key concept in urban geograp...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
