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    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
    ISBN: 9781035325252 , 9781789900118
    Language: English
    Pages: ix, 439 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
    Series Statement: Research handbooks in urban studies series
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    Keywords: Stadtplanung ; Komplexität ; City planning ; Stadtplanung ; Komplexität
    Abstract: Contents: Introduction to the handbook on cities and complexity / Juval Portugali -- Part I: Foundations -- 1. Cities, complexity and beyond / Juval Portugali -- 2. The emergence of complexity theories: An outline / Hermann Haken -- 3. City systems and complexity / Michael Batty -- 4. Major transitions in the story of urban complexity / Stephen Marshall and Nick Green -- Part II: Complexity theories of cities -- 5. Complexity: The evolution and planning of towns and cities / Peter M. Allen -- 6. Synergetic cities / Juval Portugali and Hermann Haken -- 7. Co-evolution as the secret of urban complexity / Denise Pumain -- 8. Fractal geometry for analyzing and modeling urban patterns and planning sustainable cities / Pierre Frankhauser -- 9. Scaling, fractals and the spatial complexity of cities / Yanguang Chen -- 10. Cybernetic cities: Designing and controlling adaptive and robust urban systems / Carlos Gershenson, Paolo Santi and Carlo Ratti --
    Abstract: Part III: Complexity, language and cities -- 11. New concepts in complexity theory arising from studies in the field of architecture: An overview of the four books of the nature of order with emphasis on the scientific problems which are raised / Christopher Alexander -- 12. The dialectic as driver of complexity in urban and social systems / Alan Penn -- Part IV: Modeling complex cities -- 13. Modelling car traffic in cities / Vincent Verbavatz and Marc Barthelemy -- 14. Studying the dynamics of urban traffic flows using percolation: A new methodology for real-time urban and transportation planning / Nimrod Serok, Orr Levy, Shlomo Havlin and Efrat Blumenfeld Lieberthal -- 15. The simple complex phenomenon of urban parking / Itzhak Benenson and Nir Fulman -- Part V: Complexity, planning and design -- 16. Complexity and uncertainty: Implications for urban planning / Stefano Moroni and Daniele Chiffi --
    Abstract: 17. Tailoring nudges to self-organising behavioural patterns in public space / Koen Bandsma, Ward S. Rauws and Gert de Roo -- 18. Evolutionary games in cities and urban planning / Sara Encarna.o, Fernando P. Santos, Francisco C. Santos, Margarida Pereira, Jorge M. Pacheco and Juval Portugali -- 19. Homo faber, homo ludens and the city: A sirnia view on urban planning and design / Juval Portugali Epilogue: cities and complexity in the time of COVID-19. / Hermann Haken, Juval Portugali, Michael Batty, Stephen Marshall, Nick Green, Peter M. Allen, Pierre Frankhauser, Carlos Gershenson, Alan Penn, Vincent Verbavatz, Marc Barthelemy, Daniele Chiffi, Stefano Moroni, Koen Bandsma, Ward S. Rauws and Gert de Roo -- Index
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    Cheltenham, U.K : Edward Elgar
    ISBN: 9780857936394
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 555 p)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Handbook of creative cities
    DDC: 307.76
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    Keywords: Stadtökonomik ; Stadtentwicklung ; Ballungsraum ; Kreativität ; Lebensqualität ; Welt ; Sustainable development ; City planning Handbooks, manuals, etc ; Urban renewal ; Stadt ; Kultur ; Kulturwirtschaft ; Stadtentwicklung ; Electronic books ; Cities and towns ; Creative thinking ; Urban policy ; Urban economics ; Sociology, Urban ; City planning ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Stadt ; Kultur ; Kulturwirtschaft ; Stadtentwicklung
    Abstract: With the publication of The Rise of the Creative Class by Richard Florida in 2002, the "creative city" became the new hot topic among urban policymakers, planners and economists. Florida has developed one of three path-breaking theories about the relationship between creative individuals and urban environments. The economist Åke E. Andersson and the psychologist Dean Simonton are the other members of this "creative troika". In the Handbook of Creative Cities, Florida, Andersson and Simonton appear in the same volume for the first time. The expert contributors in this timely Handbook extend their insights with a varied set of theoretical and empirical tools. The diversity of the contributions reflect the multidisciplinary nature of creative city theorizing, which encompasses urban economics, economic geography, social psychology, urban sociology, and urban planning. The stated policy implications are equally diverse, ranging from libertarian to social democratic visions of our shared creative and urban future
    Abstract: pt. 1. Foundations -- pt. 2. People -- pt. 3. Networks -- pt. 4. Planning -- pt. 5. Markets -- pt. 6. Visions
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    ISBN: 9781035305735
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 184 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: INFER advances in economic research
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Integration and globalization
    DDC: 337
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    Keywords: 1980-2006 ; Globalisierung ; Internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen ; Wirtschaftsintegration ; Wirtschaftliche Konvergenz ; Industrieländer ; Entwicklungsländer ; International economic integration Congresses ; Globalization Congresses Economic aspects ; International economic integration ; Globalization Economic aspects ; Europe Congresses Economic integration ; Developing countries Congresses Economic integration ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Wirtschaftliche Integration ; Globalisierung
    Abstract: The main challenges the European Single Market is facing in the 21st century result from the enlargement to Central and Eastern Europe, the EMU, and the globalization of trade and investment that has aided the rise of competitive emerging markets. This state-of-the-art book provides fresh theoretical and empirical evidence on the challenges presented by integration and globalization for both developed and developing countries. The authors demonstrate how the European Single Market remains a work in progress with many critical issues still to be addressed. These include the rigidities in product and labor markets, the need for innovation and quality upgrading, and the rapid catch-up of new member countries. They go on to show how firms use the opportunities provided by integration and globalization to fragment their production processes internationally, which brings gains but also requires structural adjustment. The book also argues that global environmental coordination may be less detrimental to the growth prospects of developing countries than is commonly believed. Illustrating a number of methodologies, this book will be a great resource tool for postgraduates and undergraduates in the fields of international economics and business, as well as researchers and policy-makers
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Part I: Overview -- 1. Integration and globalization: An overview / Helena Marques, Elias Soukiazis and Pedro Cerqueira -- Part II: European economies and integration -- 2. Challenges for the internal market in the 21st century / Fabienne Ilzkovitz, Adriaan Dierx, Viktoria Kovacs and Nuno Sousa -- 3. Testing nominal rigidities in an integrated economy: An application to Spain / Maria Ángeles Caraballo and Carlos Usabiaga -- 4. Innovation, competitiveness and growth: The case of central and eastern European countries / Eleonora Cavallaro and Marcella Mulino -- 5. Price convergence in the new EU member states: Selected aspects and implications / Václav Zd'árek -- Part III: Developing economies and globalization -- 6. Outsourcing: A story of metamorphosis / Soumodip Sarkar -- 7. International spillovers and learning by doing in a regionalized model of climate change: A post-kyoto analysis / Nicola Cantore -- 8. Assessing exchange rate pass-through in India during recent globalization / Sushanta Mallick and Helena Marques -- 9. A dynamic cge analysis of the eu-jordan fta: Welfare and policy implications / Omar Feraboli -- Index.
    Note: "The contributions in this volume result from the 6th Workshop in International Economics of the International Network for Economic Research (INFER), held at the University of Coimbra in June 2007."--Preface , Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 4
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    Cheltenham, U.K : Edward Elgar
    ISBN: 9781848449367
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xx, 299 p) , ill
    Series Statement: IWR Maass-White series
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The evolution of water resource planning and decision making
    DDC: 333.9100973
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    Keywords: 1800-2007 ; Natürliche Ressourcen ; Wasserversorgung ; Wasserwirtschaft ; Umweltmanagement ; Wirtschaftsgeschichte ; USA ; Water utilities ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; USA ; Wasserversorgung ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Projektplanung ; Geschichte ; USA ; Wasserversorgung ; Umweltökonomie ; Geschichte ; USA ; Wasserversorgung ; Management ; Geschichte
    Abstract: This broad review of the development of US water resource policy analysis and practice offers perspectives from several disciplines: law, economics, engineering, ecology and political science. The historical context provided goes back to the early 19th century, but the book concentrates on the past 60 years. A key feature is a discussion of the difficulty that has generally been encountered in bringing the disciplines of economics and ecology into collaboration in the water resource context
    Abstract: 1. Water resources planning : past, present and future / John J. Boland and Duane Baumann -- 2. A history of the United States water resources planning and development / Warren Viessman, Jr. -- Appendix 2.1 Evolution of public involvement in water planning / Jerome Delli Priscoli -- Appendix 2.2 Nebraska natural resource districts -- 3. The theory and practice of benefit-cost analysis / John J. Boland, Nicholas Flores and Charles W. Howe -- 4. Environmental issues and options in water resources planning and decision making / David H. Moreau and Daniel P. Loucks -- 5. On the collaboration of ecologists and economists / Clifford S. Russell and Mark Sagoff -- 6. Political decision making : real decisions in real political contexts / Peter Rogers, Lawrence MacDonnell and Peter Lydon -- Appendix 6.1 Overview of American law for allocation of water -- 7. Making the transition : moving water resources planning and management into the twenty-first century / Gerald E. Galloway
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    ISBN: 9781848449435
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 151 p) , ill
    Series Statement: New horizons in regional science
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Stimson, Robert J. Leadership and institutions in regional endogenous development
    DDC: 307.1/4
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    Keywords: Regionalentwicklung ; Endogenes Wachstumsmodell ; Institutionenökonomik ; Endogenous growth (Economics) ; Development leadership ; Entrepreneurship ; Regional economics ; Financial institutions ; Electronic books ; Regionale Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Institutionenökonomie
    Abstract: The authors of this comprehensive book provide a detailed rationale and original theory for the study of leadership and institutional factors, including entrepreneurship, in the growth and development of cities and regions. They demonstrate why leadership, institutions and entrepreneurship can - and indeed do - play a crucial enhancing role as key elements in the process of regional endogenous growth
    Abstract: pt. I. Developing a new conceptual model framework for endogenous regional economic growth and development : incorporating resource endowments and market fit, leadership, institutional factors and entrepreneurship -- pt. II. Examples of regional development initiatives involving leadership and institutional factors : case studies from North America, Europe and the Pacific Rim
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-146) and index
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    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
    ISBN: 9781035306152
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (304 pages)
    Series Statement: New horizons in regional science series
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Migration and human capital
    DDC: 304.8
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    Keywords: 1970-2005 ; Globalisierung ; Arbeitsmigranten ; Brain Drain ; Humankapital ; Welt ; Migration, Internal ; Emigration and immigration Economics aspects ; Emigration and immigration Political aspects ; Amerika ; Brain-Drain ; Humankapital ; Internationale Migration ; Intraragional ; Migration ; Wanderung ; Migration, Internal ; Emigration and immigration ; Human capital ; Konferenzschrift 2005 ; Konferenzschrift 2005 ; Migration ; Arbeitsmobilität ; Humankapital
    Abstract: Throughout the world, migration is an increasingly important and diverse component of population change, both at national and sub-national levels. Migration impacts on the distribution of knowledge and generates externalities and spillover effects. This book focuses on recent models and methods for analysing and forecasting migration, as well as on the basic trends, driving factors and institutional settings behind migration processes. Migration and Human Capital also looks at many current policy issues regarding migration, such as the creative class in metropolitan areas, the brain drain, regional diversity, population ageing, illegal immigration, ethnic networks and immigrant assimilation. With specific reference to Europe and North America, the book reviews and applies models of internal migration; analyses the spatial concentration of human capital; considers migration in a family context; and addresses the political economy of international migration. This book will be invaluable for researchers and policy makers in the fields of internal and international migration. It provides up-to-date readings for advanced courses that focus on migration and population change in a global context
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Part I: Introduction and overview -- 1. Migration in a globalised world: A new paradigm / Jacques Poot, Brigitte Waldorf and Leo van Wissen -- Part II: Internal migration -- 2. Inter-regional migration modelling: A review / John Stillwell -- 3. In search of a modelling strategy for projecting internal migration in European countries / Leo van Wissen, Nicole van der Gaag, Phil Rees and John Stilwell -- 4. Internal migration between us states: A social network analysis / Gunther Maier and Michael Vyborny -- Part III: Human capital -- 5. Regional concentration of highly educated couples / Signe Jauhiainen -- 6. The emergence of a knowledge agglomeration: A spatial-temporal analysis of intellectual capital in Indiana / Brigitte Waldorf -- 7. Knowledge spillovers: Mobility of highly educated workers within the high technology sector in Finland / Kirsi Mukkala -- 8. Rural-urban income disparities among the highly educated / Audrey Muhlenkamp and Brigitte Waldorf -- Part IV: International migration -- 9. The impact of immigration on the employment of natives in regional labour markets: A meta-analysis / Simonetta Longhi, Peter Nijkamp and Jacques Poot -- 10. Ethnic network externalities and labour market integration / Thomas de Graaff, Cees Gorter, Henri L.F. de Groot and Peter Nijkamp -- 11. International economic integration and migration: The case of Romania / Daniela L. Constantin, Valentina Vasile, Diana Preda and Luminita Nicolescu -- 12. Migration policies, illegal immigration and the underground economy / Jesús Clemente, Gemma Larramona and Fernando Pueyo -- 13. Brain drains, brain gains and migration policies / Natasha T. Duncan -- Index.
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    Cheltenham, U.K : Edward Elgar
    ISBN: 9781845425470
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 306 p) , ill
    Series Statement: Saint-Gobain Centre for Economic Studies series
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Aglietta, Michel, 1938 - Corporate governance adrift
    DDC: 658.4
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    Keywords: Corporate Governance ; Shareholder Value ; Unternehmensbewertung ; Corporate governance ; Corporations Valuation ; Electronic books ; Europa ; USA ; Corporate Governance ; Wirtschaftsdemokratie ; Unternehmensbewertung ; Unternehmenstheorie ; Shareholder-Value-Analyse ; Corporate Governance
    Abstract: Recent corporate governance scandals have brought to the fore the inherent contradictions of a capitalism dominated by financial markets. This challenging book by Michel Aglietta and Antoine Rebérioux argues that capitalism's basic premise--that companies must be managed in the sole interest of their shareholders--is incongruent with the current environment of liquid markets, profit-hungry investors and chronic financial instability. The authors advocate rather that a company should be managed as an institution where common objectives are developed for all stakeholders, and that this democratic principle should be extended to the management of collective savings to reduce macro-financial instability. These two conditions, they contend, could make contemporary capitalism a vehicle for social progress
    Abstract: 1. Finance-led capitalism : an inventory -- 2. A critique of the foundations of shareholder value -- 3. The convergence of the European model in question -- 4. Corporate governance regimes -- 5. Accounting, finance and the firm -- 6. The logics of finance -- 7. Financial crises and the economic cycle -- 8. Reinterpreting the financial scandals of the Enron era -- 9. In favour of economic democracy
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Translated from the French
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    Cheltenham, U.K : Edward Elgar
    ISBN: 9781845425517
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 242 p) , ill., maps
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Campari, João Santo The economics of deforestation in the Amazon
    DDC: 333.75/137/09811
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    Keywords: Entwaldung ; Amazonasgebiet ; Brasilien ; Deforestation ; Deforestation ; Deforestation Economic aspects ; Deforestation Economic aspects ; Electronic books ; Amazonastiefland ; Entwaldung
    Abstract: This provocative new book presents the results of twenty years of research on deforestation in the Amazon. By carefully observing the changing character of human settlements and their association with deforestation over such a prolonged period, the author is able to reject much of the "perceived wisdom". He skillfully dissects various models of deforestation and provides hard evidence on what is myth and what is reality
    Abstract: 1. Deforestation and its myths -- 2. Occupation, changing migration dynamics, and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon -- 3. The political economy of frontier expansion and deforestation in the Amazon -- 4. Deforestation and the rules of land allocation -- 5. The Turnover hypothesis of Amazon deforestation : conceptual framework -- 6. Colonization projects : field work -- 7. Turnover on farming plots -- 8. Deforestation and land re-concentration in the Amazon frontier -- 9. Dispelling other myths about the Amazon -- 10. Policy implications and recommendations
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 222-230) and index
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    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
    ISBN: 9781782544005
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 199 pages) , map
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Becattini, Giacomo, 1927 - 2017 Industrial districts
    DDC: 338.6/042
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    Keywords: Industrieregion ; Branchenentwicklung ; Industrie ; Kapitalismus ; Industrial districts ; Bibliografie ; Industriegebiet ; Sektoraler Strukturwandel ; Industrieökonomie
    Abstract: This remarkable book outlines the historical framework and the main concepts of the literature on industrial districts. It illustrates a new approach to the study of industrial development, based on well-known industrial districts analysis. Giacomo Becattini has written an authoritative volume which, starting with the theory of districts, explores key aspects of contemporary capitalism. The book concludes that industrial districts are not a provisory phenomenon but a variant of the capitalist mode of production, where financial relationships are relatively less important, and inter-human ones play an unusually important role. Such is the basis for their specific competitive advantage. Academics, politicians and students interested in local development and also industrial development will find much to learn in Industrial Districts, as will industrial geographers and historians of industry and of economic thought
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Foreword: An invitation to read by brian loasby -- Introduction -- Part I: From the 'sector' to the 'district' -- 1. From the industrial 'sector' to the industrial 'district': Some remarks on the conceptual foundations of industrial economics -- 2. The marshallian industrial district as a socioeconomic notion -- 3. The industrial district as a creative milieu -- 4. Local systems and global markets (with enzo rullani) -- 5. From marshallian to Italian 'industrial districts': A brief critical reconstruction -- 6. Measuring the 'district effect': Reflections on the literature (with Francesco musotti) -- Part II: Industrial districts and beyond -- 7. Thought and places in the works of carlo cattaneo -- 8. Industrial sectors and industrial districts: Tools for industrial analysis -- 9. The conditions of local development -- 10. Rural identities and globalisation (with luigi omodei zorini) -- Bibliography -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-193) and index
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    Cheltenham, U.K : Edward Elgar
    ISBN: 9781843769743
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 392 p) , ill
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Local enterprises in the global economy
    DDC: 338.6/42
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    Keywords: KMU ; Produktionsstandort ; Corporate Governance ; Globalisierung ; Betriebliche Wertschöpfung ; Regionales Cluster ; Welt ; Small business ; Globalization Economic aspects ; Corporate governance ; Industrial location ; Small business Technological innovations ; Industrial concentration ; Brasilien Elektroindustrie Fallstudie Globalisierung Handel Industrie Industriezweig Italien Kraftfahrzeugindustrie Pakistan Spanien Standort Taiwan Weltwirtschaft ; Klein- und Mittelunternehmen ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Europa ; Regionalwirtschaft ; Industrie ; Globalisierung ; Lateinamerika ; Asien ; Globalisierung ; Klein- und Mittelbetrieb ; Corporate Governance
    Abstract: This book opens a fresh chapter in the debate on local enterprise clusters and their strategies for upgrading in the global economy. The authors employ a novel conceptual framework in their research on industrial clusters in Europe, Latin America and Asia and provide new perspectives and insights for researchers and policymakers alike
    Abstract: 1. Globalized localities : introduction -- 2. Regions in the "world economic triangle" -- 3. Making sense of global standards -- 4. Governance in global value chains -- 5. The underground revolution in the Sinos Valley : a comparison of upgrading in global and national value chains -- 6. How globalization affects Italian industrial districts : the case of Brenta -- 7. Upgrading in the tile industry of Italy, Spain and brazil : insights from cluster and value chain analysis -- 8. Local upgrading strategies in response to global challenges : the surgical instrument cluster of Tuttlingen, Germany -- 9. Clustering and upgrading in global value chains : the Taiwanese personal computer industry -- 10. Global quality standards and technological upgrading in the Brazilian auto-components industry -- 11. The effect of global standards on local producers : a Pakistani case study -- 12. Paradoxes and ironies of locational policy in the new global economy -- 13. Chain governance and upgrading : taking stock
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    ISBN: 9781845423438
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 268 p) , ill
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Grimsey, Darrin, 1966 - Public private partnerships
    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Grimsey, Darrin, 1966 - Public private partnerships
    DDC: 363.6/068/1
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    Keywords: Öffentlich-private Partnerschaft ; Infrastrukturinvestition ; Unternehmensfinanzierung ; Projektfinanzierung ; Welt ; Infrastructure (Economics) Management ; Public-private sector cooperation ; Risk management ; Economic development projects Finance ; Infrastrukturinvestition ; Electronic books ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Projektfinanzierung ; Risikomanagement ; Public Private Partnership ; Infrastrukturleistung ; Public Private Partnership ; Projektfinanzierung ; Risikomanagement ; Infrastrukturleistung
    Abstract: This path-breaking book considers the recent trend for governments to look increasingly to private sector finance, provided by private enterprises constructing and managing public infrastructure facilities in partnership with government bodies
    Abstract: 1. The nature of partnerships -- 2. The revolution in infrastructure -- 3. The origins of partnerships -- 4. Partnerships and conventional procurement of infrastructure -- 5. The structure of partnership agreements -- 6. Issues in public private partnerships -- 7. Risk management -- 8. The governance of partnerships -- 9. PPPs in emerging markets -- 10. An assessment
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    Cheltenham, U.K : Edward Elgar
    ISBN: 9781845423391
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxx, 241 p) , ill., maps
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Regional economies as knowledge laboratories
    DDC: 338.9
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    Keywords: Regionalökonomik ; Wissen ; Regionales Cluster ; Wissenstransfer ; Theorie ; Welt ; Intellectual capital ; Regional economics ; Electronic books ; Bibliografie ; Regionalwirtschaft ; Regionalentwicklung ; Wissensmanagement ; Regionale Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Standortfaktor ; Wissenschaft ; Beschäftigung
    Abstract: Today, the study of regions is central to academic analysis and policy deliberation on how to respond to the rise of the knowledge economy. Regional Economies as Knowledge Laboratories illustrates how newer types of regional analysis--utilising scientometrics, knowledge services measures and university networks, and concepts such as knowledge life cycles, experimental knowledge creation, and knowledge ethics--are leading to a perception that regional economies increasingly resemble knowledge laboratories
    Abstract: 1. Strategic adaptation to the knowledge economy in less favoured regions : a South Ostrobothnian University network as a case in point -- 2. Higher education and high intellectual unemployment : does education matter? : an interpretation and some critical perspectives -- 3. The geography of research collaboration : theoretical considerations and stylized facts in biotechnology in Europe and the United States -- 4. Knowledge intensive business services and regional development : consultancy in city regions in Norway -- 5. The cluster as a nexus of knowledge creation -- 6. Knowledge life cycles inside local economic systems -- 7. High-tech industry clustering rationales : the case of German biotechnology -- 8. Industry-science relationships as enhancing regional knowledge economies : a comparative perspective from Japan and the UK -- 9. Placing Ireland's transition to a knowledge economy within a global context -- 10. The spatial dimension of inter-firm learning : case study and conceptualization -- 11. Knowledge, values and territory : a case study -- 12. The "knowledge economy" : a critical view -- 13. Conclusions : regional economies as knowledge laboratories : theories, fashions and future steps
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    Cheltenham, U.K : Edward Elgar
    ISBN: 9781845420628
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 238 p) , ill
    Series Statement: New horizons in international business
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Multinational firms' location and the new economic geography
    DDC: 338.8/8
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    Keywords: Multinationales Unternehmen ; Standort ; Standortwahl ; International ; Wirtschaftsgeographie ; Economic geography Congresses ; International business enterprises Congresses ; Industrial location Congresses ; Electronic books ; Konferenzschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Bibliografie ; Wirtschaftsgeografie ; Multinationales Unternehmen ; Standortpolitik ; Industriegeografie ; Standortpolitik ; Agglomeration ; Multinationales Unternehmen ; Direktinvestition ; Standort
    Abstract: This book analyses how foreign direct investors choose their locations, whilst exploring the forces which shape international economic geography. Although these two issues are, to some extent, inter-related, researchers have only recently acknowledged the similarity of economic geography and international business approaches to the empirical assessment of likely causes of the degree of spatial concentration observed in many modern industries
    Abstract: pt. 1. Agglomeration and multinationsl firms' location -- pt. 2. Home market effects, market size and location strategies
    Note: "This volume is the outcome of a workshop held in the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, on [sic] May 2002"--General introd , Includes bibliographical references and index
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    Cheltenham, U.K : Edward Elgar
    ISBN: 9781845420536
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 398 p) , ill., maps
    Series Statement: New dimensions in networks
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Urban and regional transportation modeling
    DDC: 388.4/01/1
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    Keywords: Verkehrsplanung ; Stadtverkehr ; Regionalplanung ; Wirtschaftsmodell ; Theorie ; Welt ; Urban transportation Planning ; Regional planning ; Urban transportation Mathematical models ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Stadtverkehr
    Abstract: Honoring David Boyce for his legendary contributions to the fields of transportation modeling and regional science, the chapters in this festschrift highlight and analyze state-of-the-art and state-of-the-practice methodologies and theories in transportation modeling, regional and urban planning
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    ISBN: 9781035304752
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 362 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Cooperation, networks and institutions in regional innovation systems
    DDC: 338.8/7
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    Keywords: Innovation ; Regionalökonomik ; Regionales Cluster ; Unternehmensnetzwerk ; Industrieforschung ; Regionalpolitik ; Wissenstransfer ; Theorie ; Welt ; Technological innovations Economic aspects ; Regional planning ; Regional economics ; Technology and state ; Research, Industrial ; Industrial promotion ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Unternehmenskooperation ; Innovationsförderung ; Netzwerk ; Regionalwirtschaft ; Kongress ; Technische Innovation ; Regionale Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Innovation ; Kooperation
    Abstract: This book addresses the role of cooperation, networks and institutions in the context of regional innovation systems. It emphasises the importance of these factors in the emergence of local innovation systems, using detailed examples of clusters which have reached different stages of maturity. The authors address the topic from an empirical, theoretical and political perspective, and highlight the local mechanisms which are involved in the development of innovation systems. They offer a comprehensive overview of different approaches in the field and present numerous case studies which stress the influence of networks and local institutions. Significantly, they also introduce several new approaches to regional innovation systems, including contributions which explicitly discuss the design and potential of policy measures to promote regional development. The policy recommendations are based on sound theorising which, in turn, is based on extensive empirical research. This book is a valuable addition to a complex and growing literature which offers new perspectives and insights on cooperation, networks and institutions, and their role in the development of local systems of innovation. The combination of empirical, theoretical and policy-oriented approaches will ensure this book is essential reading for academics and policymakers in the fields of regional economics, innovation research and economic geography
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction: Towards a political perspective and unifying concept -- Part I. Theoretical approaches -- 2. Local culture and regional innovation networks: Some propositions -- 3. Entrepreneurial activities in a regional context -- 4. The role of trust and power in the institutional regulation of territorial business systems -- 5. Cognitive coordination, institutions and clusters: An exploratory discussion -- 6. Problems and solutions in knowledge transfer -- 7. learning pathologies in losing areas: towards a definition of the cognitive obstacles to local development -- 8. On the unit of analysis in the study of networks -- Part ii. Case studies -- 9. Is Nanjing's concentration of it companies an innovative cluster? -- 10. TV content production in media regions: the necessities and difficulties of public policy support for a project-based industry -- 11. How many networks in a local cluster? Textile machine production and innovation in Brescia -- 12. 'Lock-in' of regional clusters: the case of offshore engineering -- Part III. Policy implications -- 13. Entrepreneurship stimulation in regional innovation systems - public promotion of university-based start-ups in Germany -- 14. Cooperation and knowledge-pooling in clusters: Designing territorial competitiveness policies -- 15. policy measures to support the emergence of localised industrial clusters -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781035304851
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 241 pages) , illustrations, maps
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von From industrial districts to local development
    DDC: 338.945/5
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    Keywords: Industrieregion ; Kommunale Entwicklung ; Toskana ; Industrial districts ; Industrial policy ; Industrial organization ; Economic development ; Industrial districts Italy ; Tuscany ; Industrial policy Italy ; Industrial organization Italy ; Economic development ; Italien ; Toskana ; Industrie ; Klein- und Mittelbetrieb ; Regionale Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Industrieregion ; Regionalwirtschaft
    Abstract: From Industrial Districts to Local Development introduces a set of papers representing the main contribution of the 'Florence school' to the recent literature on industrial districts. The authors illustrate that the revitalisation of the concept of industrial districts, returning to Alfred Marshall's nineteenth-century writings, is rooted in an unconventional interpretation of the economic development of Tuscany after the Second World War. Models of industrial organisation and empirical investigation of industrial tendencies are featured, and Alfred Marshall's concepts of the advantages of the geographical agglomeration of specialised small firms in industrial districts are reintroduced. The authors extend the analysis of purely economic effects of agglomeration, including social, cultural and institutional foundations of local development, and current case studies are presented. This book will appeal to scholars, lecturers and researchers focusing on industrial economics, development economics and economic geography. Its references to Italian political experiences will also be of interest to policymakers in both developed and developing countries
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Foreword / by Werner Sengenberger -- Introduction: An itinerary -- Part I: The development of tuscany: Industrial districts -- 1. Industrial districts in the development of tuscany -- 2. The 'tuscan model' and recent trends -- 3. The past in the present: Prato's people -- Part II: Inside the district: Clues for theoreticians -- 4. The governance of transactions in the industrial district: The 'commodity market' -- 5. The incentives to decentralised creativity in local systems of small firms -- 6. Trust, interlinking transactions and credit in the industrial district -- 7. On entrepreneurship, region and the constitution of scale and scope economies -- Part III: Towards local development -- 8. Local development in the experience of Italian industrial districts -- 9. Local governance and industrial districts' competitive advantage -- 10. The multiple paths of local development -- 11. Towards a geographical redefinition of the form of the state -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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    ISBN: 9781035303908
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 250 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von The Asian economies in the twentieth century
    DDC: 330.95/043
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    Keywords: Wirtschaftswachstum ; Produktivität ; Asien ; Asia Economic conditions 20th century ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Asien ; Wirtschaft
    Abstract: The rapidly increasing importance of China, India, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan both in Asia and in the world economy, represents a trend that is set to continue into the 21st century. This book provides an authoritative assessment of the 20th century performance of these countries, and in particular the factors contributing to the acceleration of Asian growth in the latter part of the century. The contributors look at Asia within a global perspective and detailed comparisons are drawn with Australia and the USA. Contributions from leading experts offer a comprehensive review of the procedures necessary to establish valid international comparisons for countries with very different economic histories and levels of development. These include methods of growth performance measurement and techniques of growth accounting. The Asian Economies in the Twentieth Century will be an indispensable new tool for policy analysts, international agencies and academic researchers
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction: Measuring Asian performances -- 2. The international comparison of real product and productivity -- 3. International comparison of farm sector performance: Methodological options and empirics findings for Asia-Pacific economies, 1900-94 -- 4. A comparison of real output and productivity levels in australian and United States manufacturing, 1970-95 -- 5. Industrial output and labour productivity in China 1949-94: A reassessment -- 6. Twentieth century economic performance of India -- 7. Indonesia's growth performance in the twentieth century -- 8. The long-term performance of the Japanese economy -- 9. Realising growth potential: South Korea and Taiwan, 1960 to 1998 -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781782542643
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 257 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Asia-Pacific issues in international business
    DDC: 337.5
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    Keywords: 30.09.1999 ; Multinationales Unternehmen ; Auslandsinvestition ; Internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen ; Asiatisch-pazifischer Raum ; Asien ; Australien ; Neuseeland ; Pazifischer Raum ; Ostasien Südostasien ; Australien ; Neuseeland ; Pazifischer Raum ; Internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen ; Außenwirtschaft ; Export ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Direktinvestition ; Dänemark ; Vereinigte Staaten ; Japan ; Volksrepublik China ; Kleine und mittlere Unternehmen Marketing ; Internet ; Multinationales Unternehmen ; Taiwan ; Elektronikindustrie ; Bangladesch ; Urheberrecht ; Joint Venture ; International ; Hongkong ; Personalpolitik ; Management (funktional) ; Internationaler Vergleich/Ländervergleich ; East Asia Congresses Foreign economic relations ; Southeast Asia Congresses Foreign economic relations ; Pacific Area Congresses Foreign economic relations ; Australia Congresses Foreign economic relations ; New Zealand Congresses Foreign economic relations ; East Asia Foreign economic relations ; Congresses ; Konferenzschrift ; Ostasien ; Australien ; Neuseeland ; Außenwirtschaft
    Abstract: This timely book represents the latest research on a selection of key issues in international business in the Asia-Pacific region. In particular the contributors examine the internationalisation process, export expansion and performance, foreign direct investment and the management of international business relationships. More specifically, they analyse: * the growth patterns of Danish and US companies developing operations in the region * the impact of the internet, the competitiveness of the Australian wine industry, and the development and application of export performance measures * the factors influencing the location decisions of Japanese Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) and the investment risk perceptions of Australian MNEs * the multinational knowledge acquisition modes of Taiwanese electronics firms * the protection of intellectual property rights * the use of performance measures in international joint ventures * the human resource management practices of ethnic Chinese-owned enterprises compared to Anglo-American MNEs. This book will become a first point of reference for businesses in this region as well as scholars of international business and Asian studies
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Part I. The internationalisation process -- Part II. Export expansion and performance -- Part III. Foreign direct investment issues -- Part IV. Managing international business relationships -- Index.
    Note: A selection of papers presented at the annual conference of the Australia-New Zealand Business Academy, held September 30-October 2, 1999, and hosted by the Australian Centre for International Business at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia , Includes bibliographical references and index
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    ISBN: 9781035304066
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 149 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Steininger, Karl W., 1965 - International trade and transport
    DDC: 382
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    Keywords: Güterverkehr ; Außenwirtschaftstheorie ; Neue Außenhandelstheorie ; Regionalökonomik ; Transportkosten ; Umweltökonomik ; Theorie ; International trade ; Transportation ; Economic geography ; International trade ; Transportation ; Economic geography ; Weltwirtschaft ; Welthandel ; Transport ; Wirtschaftsgeografie
    Abstract: The spatial dimension of international trade theory has been neglected during most of its history. Trade barriers such as tariffs have been deemed more important. However, in an increasingly integrated world economy seeking to abolish tariffs, spatial considerations have gained in stature. On the way to fostering a spatial trade theory this book supplies a comprehensive analysis of all the different impacts of the inclusion of space and transport costs, covering orthodox trade theory, new trade theories, and economic geography. Karl Steininger also expands spatial analysis to cover spatial preferences and spatial discounting and catalogues the result of spatial production structure and environmental quality in a global economy. Finally, an empirical account is given of the trade and macro-implications of full cost pricing in transport
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. The modelling of transport in international trade theory -- 3. Transport in traditional trade theory -- 4. Transport in new trade theories -- 5. Transport in economic geography -- 6. Foreign trade and spatial pReferences -- 7. Foreign trade and transport cost internationalization -- 8. Conclusions -- References -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-143) and indexes
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    ISBN: 9781782542308
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 340 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von The globalization of industry and innovation in Eastern Europe
    DDC: 338.947
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    Keywords: Industrie ; Innovation ; Wirtschaftliche Anpassung ; Internationaler Wettbewerb ; Osteuropa ; Industrial policy ; Structural adjustment (Economic policy) ; Europe, Eastern Economic policy 1989- ; Bibliografie ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Osteuropa ; Industrie ; Innovation ; Internationaler Wettbewerb ; Anpassung
    Abstract: In this important book, industrial and enterprise reform over the last decade in Eastern Europe is critically reviewed in light of increasing Eastern integration into the global economy. The authors argue for the further globalization of Eastern European enterprise networks as a condition for recovery and growth in the region. Empirical evidence is provided from five industrial sectors (car industry, telecommunication, shipbuilding, computers, software), including case studies and international comparisons
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction -- Part I: Conceptual framework -- 2. An evolutionary view of post-socialist restructuring -- 3. Enterprise reform and competition analysis in the post-socialist context -- Part II: Empirical analysis and case studies -- 4. The reemergence of the automotive industry in eastern Europe -- 5. Local, regional and global production networks -- 6. Eastern European shipbuilding's cruise towards world markets -- 7. Food processing in western and eastern Europe -- 8. Restructuring -- Of the telecommunications sector in the west and the east and the role of science and technology -- 9. Software -- 10. The eastern European computer industry -- 11. Restructuring the computer and software industries in Poland -- Part III: Summary and outlook -- 12. Main findings and perspectives for innovation policies in eastern Europe and the west -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781035303502
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 354 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: New horizons in environmental economics
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Global environmental change and agriculture
    DDC: 338.1/4
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    Keywords: Klimawandel ; Umweltbelastung ; Welt ; Landwirtschaft ; Global environmental change ; Climatic changes ; Agriculture Environmental aspects ; Environmental auditing ; Bibliografie ; Landwirtschaftsentwicklung ; Klimaänderung
    Abstract: Global Environmental Change and Agriculture offers a comprehensive perspective on the causes, consequences and possible policy solutions for climatic change as we move into the twenty-first century. It assesses the impact of potential future global climate change on agriculture and the need to sustain agricultural growth for economic development. The book begins by examining the role of international research institutions in overcoming environmental constraints on sustainable agricultural growth and economic development. The authors then discuss how agricultural research systems may be restructured to respond to global environmental problems such as climate change and loss of genetic diversity. The discussion then extends to consider environmental accounting and indexing, to illustrate how environmental quality can be included formally in measures of national income, social welfare and sustainability. The third part of the book focuses on the effects of and policy responses to climate change. Chapters examine the effect of climate change on production, trade, land use patterns and livelihoods. They consider impacts on the distribution of income between developed and developing countries and between different social classes within the developing world, where agriculture remains a major economic activity. Authors take on an economy-wide perspective to draw lessons for agricultural, trade, land use and tax policy. This book will be of special interest to agricultural, development and environmental economists as well as policy analysts in government and at international agencies confronting practical problems of environmental and economic assessment
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction -- Part I: Global environmental change: Implications for agricultural research systems -- 2. Research systems for sustainable agricultural development -- 3. Agricultural diversity: Do we have the resources to meet future needs? -- Part II: Environmental accounting and Indexing -- 4. Environmental distortions and welfare consequences in a social accounting matrix framework -- 5. Environmental accounting and agriculture -- 6. Vulnerability of crops to climate change: A practical method of Indexing -- Part III: Climate change: Adaptation and mitigation -- 7. Assessing research on the impacts of climate change on agriculture -- 8. Climate change and agriculture: Effects on developing countries -- 9. Climate change, world agriculture and land use -- 10. Carbon abatement: Lessons from second-best economics.
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    ISBN: 9781782541592
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 254 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Environment, technology and economic growth
    DDC: 333.7
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    Keywords: Umweltökonomik ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Lange Wellen ; Umweltökonomische Gesamtrechnung ; Theorie ; Welt ; Sustainable development ; Environmental economics ; Technology Economic aspects ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Umweltökonomie ; Neue Technologie
    Abstract: At the end of the 20th century economists and policymakers face an unprecedented dual challenge: to avert ecological disaster and to end mass unemployment by accelerating and redirecting world economic growth. This major volume brings together contributions from environmental and technological economists. The first part discusses the ecological challenge to economists and policymakers and shows that both need a radical change in their approach. The second part discusses the institutional and legal changes which are necessary to address this challenge. The final part deals with the technological revolution, focusing on microelectronics and biotechnology, which is now transforming the world economy, and sets it in the context of long term fluctuations in economic growth and the relative stagnation since 1973. The protection of the environment, and economic growth with full employment are not necessarily opposed. On the contrary, as this volume demonstrates, what is required to return to full employment and more rapid growth is vigorous and concerted government action to give an 'eco-friendly' direction to technological and economic change
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction: Ecology, technology and institutions / (A. Tylecote and J. van der Straaten) -- Part I: the ecological agenda for sustainable development -- Part II: the institutional agenda for sustainable development -- Part III: ecology, technology and long fluctuations in economic growth -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781035303298
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxv, 379 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Ayres, Robert U., 1932 - Industrial ecology
    DDC: 658.7
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    Keywords: Industrial ecology ; Wirtschaftskreislauf ; Umweltschutz
    Abstract: Industrial Ecology is perhaps the first serious attempt to go beyond general statements regarding the desirability of 'clean technology' and to assess realistically and quantitatively the range of practicable possibilities for reducing materials extraction, consumption and waste. This major new book examines strategic options for reducing wastes and pollution and increasing the productivity of materials. Using an industrial ecology perspective, the authors analyse thirteen generic cases of material, beginning with four families of metals (aluminium, chromium, copper and zinc), several families of chemicals (phosphates and fluorine; suphur-based, nitrogen-based and chlorine-based), silicon and several different types of waste. Opportunities for creating 'industrial ecosystems' by deliberate design are discussed as well as the use of low-value by-products as feed stocks for useful products. In addition to surveying the technological possibilities, the authors also consider the public interest, institutional barriers and the range of possible alternatives that might be applicable. Environmental scientists, economists, practitioners and policy makers will welcome Industrial Ecology's integrated approach and the emphasis which it places on resource productivity, materials cycle optimization and waste minimization
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: Materials perspective -- 2. Resource perspective -- 3. Alumina, aluminum and gallium -- 4. Copper, cobalt, silver and arsenic -- 5. Chromium sources, uses and losses -- 6. Zinc and cadmium -- 7. Sulfur and sulfuric acid -- 8. Phosphorus, fluorine and gypsum -- 9. Nitrogen-based chemicals -- 10. The chlor-alkali sector -- 11. Electronic grade silicon (egs) for semiconductors -- 12. Post-consumer packaging wastes -- 13. Scrap tires -- 14. Coal ash: Sources and possible uses -- 15. On industrial ecosystems -- 16. Summary and conclusions -- References -- Indexes.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-348) and indexes
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