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Ökokonten und Flächenpools.
Duncker & Humblot 2010; US$ 95.66Hauptbeschreibung Um das Problem des stetig zunehmenden Flächenverbrauchs zu bewältigen, haben Ökologie und Landschaftsplanung in den letzten Jahren "Ökokonten" und "Flächenpools" entwickelt, die sich weitgehend durchgesetzt haben. Beide Modelle sind trotz ihrer Relevanz für die Planungspraxis rechtlich noch weitestgehend unerforscht. Simon Wagner... more...
Working Regions: Reconnecting Innovation and Production in the Knowledge Economy
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 125.00Working Regions focuses on policy aimed at building sustainable and resilient regional economies in the wake of the global recession. Using examples of four ? working regions? ? regions where research and design functions and manufacturing still coexist in the same cities ? the book argues for a new approach to regional economic development. It... more...
OECD Handbook on Measuring the Space Economy
OECD Publishing 2012; US$ 33.00This publication provides a summary of the key methodological issues surrounding indicators and statistics on the space sector and the larger space economy and it meant to be complementary to The Space Economy at a Glance 2011. The first part examines methodological issues including definitions and industrial classification, principal actors in... more...
New Forms of Governance for Economic Development
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2004; US$ 100.00New forms of governance are emerging. Government, business and civil society are increasingly seeking ways to develop and pursue economic development strategies and solve socio-economic problems jointly. Each with a specific function, these new models complement each other to foster endogenous development and draw on every opportunity to apply local... more...
Spatial Econometrics
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 2006; US$ 119.99The new economic geography and the debate on regional economic convergence have drawn increasingly the interest of economists in the empirical analysis of regional and spatial data. However, even if the methodology for the econometric treatment of spatial data is well developed, there does not exist a book without strong pre-requisites that is easily... more...
Dynamic Trip Modelling
Springer 2006; US$ 199.99Walking from a parked car to a shop, driving to a planned or unplanned shopping centre and virtual exchanges through the Internet are all part of 21st century trips in human activity spaces. This work shows how such a diversity of trips can be linked by a universal vision of spatial interaction modelling. more...
Vector Calculus in Regional Development Analysis
Springer 2009; US$ 94.99This work seeks to propose a methodological basis for regional development analysis based on vector calculus. Existing taxonomic methods are developed further in order to assess regions and micro-regions with regard to their socio-economic and environmental development. In addition to its methodological contribution, this book thus contributes to a... more...
Building Regions
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 99.95In this title Luk Van Langenhove advances the concept of region building as an alternative to the construction of regions. He brings together, under one conceptual framework, different processes and concepts such as regional integration, federalism, and separatism and refines the social constructionist view on regions. more...
Entrepreneurship and Global Competitiveness in Regional Economies
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011; US$ 124.95This volume, comprised of authors from the U.S., Canada, Africa, and Europe, centers on the development, transformation, and role of geographic /regional economies-- specifically in the globalized, post-2009 era. The authors address topics that every region must consider in responding to idea age, globally competitive, regionally driven economies. more...
The Learning Region
Edward Elgar Publishing 2007; US$ 40.00The aim of this book is to present a much-needed conceptualization of `the learning region'. The editors scrutinize key concepts and issues surrounding this phenomenon, which are then discussed in the context of recent literature. This unique conceptualization of the learning region presents a state-of-the-art exploration of theories. Leading scholars... more...









