This book approaches the tourism and hospitality industry from a regional science perspective. By analyzing the spatial context of tourist travels, the hospitality sector, and the regional impacts of tourist activities, it demonstrates the value of the regional science paradigm …
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This book approaches the tourism and hospitality industry from a regional science perspective. By analyzing the spatial context of tourist travels, the hospitality sector, and the regional impacts of tourist activities, it demonstrates the value of the regional science paradigm …
Many rural regions in Europe are undergoing a dynamic transition, driven by forces of urbanisation and agricultural development, new patterns of production and consumption, and new societal demands. However, while the historical rural-urban divide is eroding, rural landscapes a…
This book discusses the conditions that underpin configuration of specific places as resource peripheries and the consequences that such a socio-spatial formation involves for those places. The book thereby provides an interdisciplinary approach underpinned by economic geography…
Many rural areas are undergoing structural changes as jobs in forestry, fishing, mining, agricultural and other natural resource-based industries decline. These communities, often based around these industries, are generally small and located some distance from urban areas. They…
The world economy appears to have undergone profound changes since the end of the Second World War. Its regulatory nature has changed from being primarily national to become international. The "Golden Age", from the late 1940s to early 1970s, was based on a regime of accumulatio…
This dissertation examines the consequences of commitments by private and public agents to behaviors and structures that promote learning for the relative success and continued growth of industrial and technology poles in developing countries. Going beyond conventional formulati…
This book explores the historical, current and future prospects of womens entrepreneurial activities in the former Yugoslavia, a region that is currently in a process of transition from socialism to a free-market economy. Each chapter presents the past, present and future of fem…
Indian development: selected regional perspectives
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Commissioned by the Tokyo Club Foundation for Global Studies, comprises the reports of researchers from ten leading East Asian economies (the AT10) on the changing importance of networking in the production and service sectors in their home economy.
This is a study on the economic returns to education in Indonesia. In the past decades, Indonesia has registered tremendous achievements in expanding its educational system. There are questions, however, about the appropriate direction for educational policy to achieve the dual …
This thesis examines the history of the North Manchuria frontier from 1900 to 1931, which was a crucial period in regional development. Within thirty-one years, about four million Chinese peasants immigrated into the region. The frontier society that took shape exhibited feature…
This research examines the relationships between the economic structure and the levels of development in the districts of Peninsular Malaysia. It will also articulate a regionalization by grouping districts according to similarity in levels of development. The relationships betw…
As oil bearing country, the issue of development in Nigeria has been a complex one that has attracted attention of both the government and scholars because oil politics appears to shape resource management and the development process. While academic focus has been on the analysi…
This handbook examines agricultural and rural development in Africa from theoretical, empirical and policy stand points. It discusses the challenges of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and assesses how poverty and other development concerns can be addresse…
