Urban economics (111)

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book describes Smart Cities and the information technologies that will provide better living conditions in the cities of tomorrow. It brings together research findings from 27 countries across the globe, from academia, industry and government. I...

publisher: Springer
year: 2016
description:This book introduces readers to neo-mercantile planning theory in the context of spatial regional integration in Africa. It proposes a new approach that rethinks neo-liberalism as the meta-theory of planning in Africa, and pioneers an original school...

publisher: Springer
year: 2010
description:How can we determine if current growth patterns are sustainable, and what changes to we need to make to make them more so? This volume addresses these issues in a rigorous yet accessible fashion, presenting the current research of some of the world's...

publisher: Springer
year: 2012
description:Ünal uses Turkey as a case study to investigate the effectiveness and efficiency of land and labor markets in spreading economic opportunities within agriculture and its ability to reduce rural poverty.

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This revised and expanded edition of Colin Price's seminal publication provides a richly comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of landscape economics, a subject which has until now been addressed only in limited aspects. Although much of the book's d...

publisher: Springer
year: 2012
description:By the dawn of the 21st century, more than half of the world's population was living in urban areas. This volume explores the implications of this unprecedented expansion in the world's most urbanized region, Latin America, exploring the new urban re...

publisher: Springer
year: 2014
description:This volume is concerned with labor market developments in China from a comparative perspective on selected East and South Asian countries. It closely examines the changing structure of China's labor market in the context of the Lewisisan turning poi...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:Das Werk bietet die Grundlagen zur Lichtverschmutzung und ihrer Auswirkung auf Organismen. Es vergleicht die Lichtverschmutzung anhand ausgewählter Metropolen weltweit und bilanziert existierende Maßnahmen der Lichtverschmutzungsprävention. Schließli...

publisher: Springer
year: 2019
description:This book investigates cluster-life-cycle (CLC) analysis to inform the entrepreneurial discovery process (EDP), in order to support the effectiveness of the smart specialization strategy (S3). It focuses on the evolutionary analysis of clusters’ deve...

publisher: Springer
year: 2019
description:As the world has transformed, so have cities. Today, cities are home to 54 percent of the world’s population, and by the middle of this century that figure will likely rise to 66 percent. According to the United Nations (UN) Habitat I (1972), Habitat...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This book explores statistical models in regional specialization, presenting a brand new measure. It begins by reviewing existing indicators and models of regional specialization before outlining a newly created, spatially embedded model of specializ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2019
description:This book addresses the issue of smart and sustainable development in the Mediterranean (MED) region, a distinct part of the world, full of challenges and risks but also opportunities. Above all, the book focuses on smartening up small and medium-siz...