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The process of globalization has had profound, often destabilizing, effects on space, at all levels (i.e. local, regional, national, international). This revealing book analyzes, both theoretically and empirically, the effects of globalization over space. It considers, through a dialogue among different paradigms, the ways in which space has become more important in the global economy. Globalization has been advocated as a way of shrinking time and space which will lead to a homogenized global market; a suggestion challenged in differing ways and with a variety of approaches by all the contributors to this volume. Leading authorities from a range of disciplines are represented amongst this impressive list of contributors, including Eric Sheppard, Bjørn Asheim, Richard Walker and Peter Swann. The chapters demonstrate persuasively the continuing, and even increasing, role of space in the global economy, and throughout, the book covers viewpoints from the fields of: international political economy economic geography regional and local economics. This impressive volume, which contains a selection of the best in contemporary scholarship, will be of interest to the international arena of academicians, policy makers and professionals in these or related fields.

Regional economic disparities. --- Space in economics --- Globalization --- Economic aspects.

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Industrial location --- Technological innovations --- Regional economic disparities --- Regional planning --- Industrial policy --- Case studies. --- Economic aspects --- Differentiations, Regional economic --- Disparities, Regional economic --- Economic disparities, Regional --- Imbalances, Regional economic --- Unequal economic development --- Variations, Regional economic --- Economic zoning --- Regional disparities --- Regional economics --- Breakthroughs, Technological --- Innovations, Industrial --- Innovations, Technological --- Technical innovations --- Technological breakthroughs --- Technological change --- Creative ability in technology --- Inventions --- Domestication of technology --- Innovation relay centers --- Research, Industrial --- Technology transfer --- Industriesoziologie --- Makroökonomie --- Industriestruktur --- Wirtschaftsstruktur

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The second edition of this book is completely reedited making the book even more valuable for graduate students, reflecting recent advances and adding insightful new material. The book is about the analysis of regional economic performance and change, and how analysis integrates with strategies for local and regional economic development policy and planning. First, the book provides the reader with an overview of key theoretical and conceptual contexts within which the economic development process takes place. However, the deliberate emphasis is to provide the reader with an account of quantitative and qualitative approaches to regional economic analysis and of old and new strategic frameworks for formulating regional economic development planning. The second edition brings to the present its original thesis about the need for regions to be fast and flexible, but also to be proactive in order to be prepared to experience increasingly greater shocks while having less time to adjust their economic development to achieve sustainability. This is underscored by events that have occurred since 2001: 9/11 terrorist attacks, continuing rapid advances in technology, the rise China and India, the Tsunami, and all the known on-going and unforeseen risks and challenges that confront nations around the globe and the regions and localities within them. The book presents strategies and the traditional and expanded methods used to create and implement them.

Regional planning. --- Regional economic disparities. --- Economic development. --- Regional development --- Regional planning --- State planning --- Human settlements --- Land use --- Planning --- City planning --- Landscape protection --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- Economic policy --- Economics --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Resource curse --- Differentiations, Regional economic --- Disparities, Regional economic --- Economic disparities, Regional --- Imbalances, Regional economic --- Unequal economic development --- Variations, Regional economic --- Economic zoning --- Regional disparities --- Regional economics --- Government policy --- Regional economics. --- Geography. --- Geographical information systems. --- Regional/Spatial Science. --- Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning. --- Economic Geography. --- Geographical Information Systems/Cartography. --- Geographical information systems --- GIS (Information systems) --- Information storage and retrieval systems --- Cosmography --- Earth sciences --- World history --- Regionalism --- Space in economics --- Geography --- Spatial economics. --- Urban planning. --- Economic geography. --- Geography, Economic --- World economics --- Commercial geography --- Cities and towns --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban development --- Urban planning --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Urban policy --- Urban renewal --- Spatial economics --- Management

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This edition takes stock of the current global labour market situation, assessing the most recent employment developments and forecasting unemployment levels in developed, emerging and developing countries. It also focuses on trends in job quality, paying particular attention to working poverty and vulnerable employment.

Employment (Economic theory) --- Unemployment --- Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 --- Labor market --- Employees --- Market, Labor --- Supply and demand for labor --- Markets --- Regional economic disparities --- Global Economic Crisis, 2008-2009 --- Subprime Mortgage Crisis, 2008-2009 --- Financial crises --- Joblessness --- Full employment policies --- Labor supply --- Manpower policy --- Underemployment --- Economics --- Regional disparities --- Supply and demand --- Global Financial Crisis (2008-2009) --- E-books --- arbeidsmarkt --- 331.6 --- Labor market. --- Social security. --- Insurance, Social --- Insurance, State and compulsory --- Social insurance --- Insurance --- Income maintenance programs --- Youth --- Unemployed youth --- Unemployed --- Employment --- Social security

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Economic transition in China has witnessed (re)centralization of resources from the margin to the core in economic, social and political senses. This book employs a marginalization lens to reveal, delineate and better understand the processes, patterns, trends, multiple dimensions and dynamics of the phenomenon, and the consequences and implications for development and well-being in the country.

Globalization. --- Marginality, Social. --- Globalization --- Regional economic disparities --- Marginality, Social --- Equality --- Sociology & Social History --- Business & Economics --- Social Sciences --- Social Conditions --- Economic History --- Economic aspects --- S11/0534 --- S11/0484 --- S11/1080 --- S11/0900 --- -Regional economic disparities --- -Marginality, Social --- -Equality --- -338.951 --- Egalitarianism --- Inequality --- Social equality --- Social inequality --- Political science --- Sociology --- Democracy --- Liberty --- Exclusion, Social --- Marginal peoples --- Social exclusion --- Social marginality --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Culture conflict --- Social isolation --- People with social disabilities --- Differentiations, Regional economic --- Disparities, Regional economic --- Economic disparities, Regional --- Imbalances, Regional economic --- Unequal economic development --- Variations, Regional economic --- Economic zoning --- Regional disparities --- Regional economics --- Regional planning --- Global cities --- Globalisation --- Internationalization --- International relations --- Anti-globalization movement --- China: Social sciences--Class studies --- China: Social sciences--Rural life, rural studies: since 1976 --- China: Social sciences--Migration inside China --- China: Social sciences--Social pathology, social deviance (incl. infanticide, abandoned children, hoodlums) --- -China --- China --- Economic policy --- -Economic policy --- -S11/0534 --- -Globalization. --- Regional economic disparities. --- -Globalization --- Cina --- Kinë --- Cathay --- Chinese National Government --- Chung-kuo kuo min cheng fu --- Republic of China (1912-1949) --- Kuo min cheng fu (China : 1912-1949) --- Chung-hua min kuo (1912-1949) --- Kina (China) --- National Government (1912-1949) --- China (Republic : 1912-1949) --- People's Republic of China --- Chinese People's Republic --- Chung-hua jen min kung ho kuo --- Central People's Government of Communist China --- Chung yang jen min cheng fu --- Chung-hua chung yang jen min kung ho kuo --- Central Government of the People's Republic of China --- Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo --- Zhong hua ren min gong he guo --- Kitaĭskai︠a︡ Narodnai︠a︡ Respublika --- Činská lidová republika --- RRT --- Republik Rakjat Tiongkok --- KNR --- Kytaĭsʹka Narodna Respublika --- Jumhūriyat al-Ṣīn al-Shaʻbīyah --- RRC --- Kitaĭ --- Kínai Népköztársaság --- Chūka Jinmin Kyōwakoku --- Erets Sin --- Sin --- Sāthāranarat Prachāchon Čhīn --- P.R. China --- PR China --- Chung-kuo --- Zhongguo --- Zhonghuaminguo (1912-1949) --- Zhong guo --- Chine --- République Populaire de Chine --- República Popular China --- Catay --- VR China --- VRChina --- 中國 --- 中国 --- 中华人民共和国 --- Jhongguó --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaxu Dundadu Arad Ulus --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaqu Dumdadu Arad Ulus --- Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh Dundad Ard Uls --- Khi︠a︡tad --- Kitad --- Dumdadu Ulus --- Dumdad Uls --- Думдад Улс --- Kitajska --- 338.951 --- Marginalité sociale --- Disparités économiques régionales --- Aspects politiques --- Aspects sociaux --- Politique économique --- 1976-2000 --- Situation économique --- 2000-...