Leading up to the financial crisis of 2008 and onwards, the shortcomings of traditional models of regional economic and environmental development had become increasingly evident. This book explores complex adaptive innovative systems.
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The book defines uneven development in terms of development strategies and their outcomes. Drawing on case-studies from China and India, three types of strategy are discussed: heavy industrialisation, sectoral/regional balance, and economic liberalisation. Also three kinds of ou…
"This book explores and challenges the relationship between tourism and development and establishes a conceptual link between the discrete yet interconnected disciplines of tourism studies and development studies. This revised and expanded second edition provides not only a comp…
Preface; Part I Music Festivals: Promises and Predicaments: Introduction; The rise of music festivals: a means to regeneration?; Who goes? Audiences, fans and fanatics; What's it worth? Economic dimensions of music festivals; Whose community? Conflict and identity. Part II Music…
The proliferation of regional trade agreements, including both free trade agreements and customs unions, over the past decade has provoked many new legal issues in WTO law, public international law, and an emerging law of regional trade agreements. The various Parts of this book…
'Regional Trade Agreements and the WTO Legal System' introduces the economic & political underpinnings of regional trade agreements, their constitutional functions, & their role as a locus for integrating trade & human rights.
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Private finance and economic development: city and regional development
by Potter, Jonathan, (Jonathan Graham), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Leveraging Private Finance for City and Region Economic Development, London, England
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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…
