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Exam Board: SQA Level: Higher Subject: Geography First Teaching: August 2018 First Exam: June 2019 This book is a complete guide to the most popular options in the Global Issues area of the CfE Higher Geography course. - Blends theoretical content and processes with detailed guidance on practical aspects - Offers geographical perspectives on environmental and social issues and their significance - Encourages students to interact with their environment and develop an interest in, understanding of, and concern for the environment and sustainable development - Provides exam style questions in every chapter and new, contemporary case studies and exemplars for a fresh and inspirational examination of well-known geographical themes A companion volume, Higher Geography: Physical and Human Environments: Second Edition, provides material for the other areas of the course.

Human geography. --- Physical geography. --- Urban geography.

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"Hank Dittmar said that Christopher Alexander changed his life. I'm happy to say that Hank changed mine. It's hard to describe how enriching it was to work alongside such an insightful leader and observer of our built environment. Fortunately, for future generations of urbanists My Kind of City reveals some of Hank's finest thinking, especially the ways in which he delighted in the complex interactions between people, culture, design, and place. Don Chen, President, Surdna Foundation "This book of essays is a joy to read. Hank's writing is smart without being elitist, witty and poetic, succinct and often surprising. Hank's approach to life—and to cities—was to embrace the 'messy'—a word he uses to good effect in key passages in this book. As he notes in the opening section (a series of love letters to complicated places), cities are 'hard to plan, easy to ruin, yet surprisingly adaptable and resilient.' Adapted from the preface by Lynn Richards, President and CEO, Congress for the New Urbanism "Hank shows a rare sensibility within his profession: He has obviously been much moved by beauty. In these essays, he has contributed to the emerging belief that there are certain aesthetic constants across culture, time, and class, and that these can be objectively apprehended and taught. From the foreword by Andres Duany, Partner, DPZ Partners.

Urban geography. --- Landscape architecture. --- Urban planning. --- City planning. --- Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns). --- Landscape Architecture. --- Urbanism.

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This book investigates cluster-life-cycle (CLC) analysis to inform the entrepreneurial discovery process (EDP), in order to support the effectiveness of the smart specialization strategy (S3). It focuses on the evolutionary analysis of clusters’ development stages (emergence, development, maturity, decline/transformation), highlighting how different phases of the CLC have a different role in informing S3-policy-making and identifying regions’ potentials to specialize. In so doing, it offers an original conceptual model that explains what information can be provided by CLC analysis in the effective design and implementation of S3 and EDP, systematizes clusters' stage-specific features, and unveils the role played by each CLC stage. It contributes to the emerging academic debate on the role of the CLC concept in policy-making, by highlighting the importance of CLC analysis in dynamically investigating regional contexts and tailoring development policies such as S3. The book is an invaluable resource for academics and regional policy makers, providing them with guidance and recommendations on how to effectively approach the design and implementation of S3 and EDP, by fully tapping the potential of CLC analysis.

Industrial clusters. --- Business networks. --- Urban economics. --- Sociology, Urban. --- Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns). --- Urban Economics. --- Urban Studies/Sociology. --- Urban sociology --- Cities and towns --- City economics --- Economics of cities --- Economics --- Economic aspects --- Urban geography. --- Geography

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Depopulation, Deindustrialisation and Disasters are three of the biggest problems facing Japan today. This book discusses how sustainable communities are being created in Japan in an attempt to overcome the threat of the triple Ds . It provides an overview of how each of these three core issues endangers the sustainability of local communities especially, but also discusses how they might also provide an opportunity to replace outdated paradigms, rooted in expansion and competition, with a new way forward on a global scale. The authors explore how the Japanese government has followed the worldwide trend of implementing neo-liberal policies in response to globalisation and how these policies have resulted in a mass exodus into larger cities such as Tokyo, leaving local communities more vulnerable to socio-economic threats. The authors highlight non-metropolitan areas facing the ‘triple D’ threat and introduce several case studies on how these are working towards achieving a more sustainable future. Written by members of the LORC (Research Centre for the Local Public Human Resources and Policy Development, Ryukoku University) this collection will be invaluable to scholars across the social and political sciences and to those interested in how innovative policy making can positively influence sustainable development. Katsutaka Shiraishi is Professor at the Faculty of Policy Science, Ryukoku University, Japan and has acted as the LORC’s Director between 2008 and 2011 and again since 2014. He is also the chair of the board of the Kyoto Alliance, a collaborative platform between universities, local governments, business organisations and non-profit organisations (NPOs) in Kyoto. Nobutaka Matoba is Professor at the Faculty of Policy Science, Ryukoku University, Japan and has acted as the LORC’s Deputy Director since 2014. He obtained a PhD from the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom.

Human Geography. --- Sociology, Urban. --- Urban Studies/Sociology. --- Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns). --- Urban sociology --- Cities and towns --- Anthropo-geography --- Anthropogeography --- Geographical distribution of humans --- Social geography --- Anthropology --- Geography --- Human ecology --- Human geography. --- Urban geography.

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This book analyses China’s regional economies in 2017, providing a breakdown of areas such as economic development, public services performance, social governance, and cultural development, and forecasts the outlook of Beijing’s development for 2018. The general report overviews the past year’s overall performance while the special report focuses particularly on public service performance, social work organization and other specific areas of development. Economic, industrial and cultural developments are analyzed in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region report. This book will be of value to urban planners, sinologists, and those who seek to understand the future of the Chinese capital. Beijing Academy of Social Sciences brings together the research achievements of think tanks for the betterment of decision making at the government level and utilizes the wisdom of researchers to provide solutions to economic and cultural issues that affect the people of China. .

Asia-Economic conditions. --- Asia-Politics and government. --- Public policy. --- Development economics. --- Asian Economics. --- Asian Politics. --- Public Policy. --- Development Economics. --- Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns). --- Economics --- Economic development --- Asia—Economic conditions. --- Asia—Politics and government. --- Urban geography. --- Geography