The Dynamics of Economic Space: The Dynamics of Economic Space
The Changing Economic Geography of Companies and Regions in Times of Risk, Uncertainty, and Crisis
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By Thomas Neise, Philip Verfürth, Martin Franz
November 13, 2024
This book offers conceptual and empirical insights from economic geography to explore how uncertainties, crises, and risks, shape, reshape, and ultimately transform the spatial arrangements of companies and regions. This book provides valuable insights into the evolving landscape of economic ...
Inequalities, Youth and the Labour Market: NEETS in Southern Europe
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By Theodoros Iosifides, Stelios Gialis, Thanasis Kizos
May 21, 2024
This book thoroughly examines the socio-economic and labor market paths of young NEETs, particularly migrants and women, in the disadvantaged regions of Mediterranean Southern Europe—specifically, the island, coastal, and peripheral areas of Greece, Cyprus, Italy, and Spain. It embraces a holistic ...
Excessive Inequality and Socio-Economic Progress
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By Ona Gražina Rakauskienė, Dalia Streimikiene, Lina Volodzkienė
January 29, 2024
The growing inequality in the global economy across the planet is reaching unprecedented levels. This book seeks to develop frameworks for the assessment of excessive inequality and its impact on social-economic progress and sustainable development. It begins by summarizing the theoretical ...
Culture, Creativity and Economy: Collaborative Practices, Value Creation and Spaces of Creativity
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By Brian J. Hracs, Taylor Brydges, Tina Haisch, Atle Hauge, Johan Jansson, Jenny Sjoholm
May 31, 2023
This book nuances our understanding of the contemporary creative economy by engaging with a set of three key tensions which emerged over the course of eight European Colloquiums on Culture, Creativity and Economy (CCE): 1) the tension between individual and collaborative creative practices, 2) the ...
Social Protection and Informal Workers in Sub-Saharan Africa: Lived Realities and Associational Experiences from Tanzania and Kenya
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By Lone Riisgaard, Winnie V. Mitullah, Nina Torm
May 31, 2023
The promotion of social protection in Sub-Saharan Africa happens in a context where informal labour markets constitute the norm, and where most workers live uncertain livelihoods with very limited access to official social protection. The dominant social protection agenda and the associated ...
Blue Economy: People and Regions in Transitions
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By C. Patrick Heidkamp, John Edward Morrissey, Celine Germond Duret
December 30, 2022
This book presents state-of-the-art perspectives on the Blue Economy. It applies important geographical and sustainability transitions perspectives and underscores how Blue Economy dynamics are situated in regional contexts and shaped by the people who live there. The book highlights the Blue ...
Economies, Institutions and Territories: Dissecting Nexuses in a Changing World
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By Luca Storti, Giulia Urso, Neil Reid
August 29, 2022
Presenting multidisciplinary and global insights, this book explores the nexus between economies, institutions, and territories and how global phenomena have local consequences. It examines how original and innovative economic related processes embed themselves in societies at the local level; how...
Rural-Urban Linkages for Sustainable Development
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By Armin Kratzer, Jutta Kister
April 29, 2022
This book critically examines different forms of urban-rural links for sustainable development in different countries. As intertwined processes of globalization, digitalization, environmental challenges and the search for sustainable development continue, rural and urban areas around the world ...
Agritourism, Wine Tourism, and Craft Beer Tourism: Local Responses to Peripherality Through Tourism Niches
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By Maria Giulia Pezzi, Alessandra Faggian, Neil Reid
February 01, 2022
This book delves into the development opportunities for peripheral areas explored through the emerging practices of agritourism, wine tourism, and craft beer tourism. It celebrates the entrepreneurial spirit of people living in peri-urban regions. Peripheral areas tend to be far from urban hubs, ...
Beyond Free Market: Social Inclusion and Globalization
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By Fayyaz Baqir, Sanni Yaya
May 19, 2021
This book explores the causes and consequences of market failure in bridging societal differences to create a shared economy. It questions the current world order and evaluates socio-economic gains in reference to the social origins of the economic agents. With a need to counterbalance economic ...
Economic Development in Rural Areas: Functional and Multifunctional Approaches
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By Peter Dannenberg, Elmar Kulke
February 12, 2018
Analysing the ongoing changes and dynamics in rural development from a functional perspective through a series of case studies from the global north and south, this volume deepens our understanding of the importance of new functional and multifunctional approaches in policy, practice and theory. In...
Understanding Innovation in Emerging Economic Spaces: Global and Local Actors, Networks and Embeddedness
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By Grzegorz Micek
February 05, 2018
A small number of countries, regions, cities, and localities are powerful gatekeepers and generate the bulk of creative and innovative ideas, while the majority is largely excluded. This book looks at neglected, but emerging innovation centres analysed from various spatial and organizational ...