Les générations rurales 1945-2002

Entre 1945 et 2002, le développement du milieu rural français a été infléchi en fonction des tendances majeures de la société globale, notamment les aléas des échanges internationaux, l'expansion économique puis la crise, la diffusion à grande échelle des nouvelles technologies culturelles. Dans l ...

The coming crash in the housing market

10 things you can do now to protect your most valuable investment

Soaring home prices and 50-year low interest rates have lulled homebuyers into a false sense of security. But plummeting consumer confidence and record-high personal debt threaten to blindside overextended homeowners and real estate investors. The Coming Crash in the Housing Marketshows homeowners how to avoid ...

Urban world/global city

This study identifies and accounts for the characteristics of the contemporary city and of urban society. It analyses the distribution and growth of settlements and explores the social and behavioural characteristics of urban living INDICE Preface 1. Global Patterns and Perspectives 1.1 Introduction 1 ...

Naturaleza, localización y sociedad

tres enfoques para la geografía económica

Esta obra está dedicada a la reflexión sobre la constitución de la geografía económica como disciplina científica. Frente a la clásica perspectiva diacónica que pone el acento en la evolución de sus principios y contenidos, se propone aquí un esquema diferente, basado en la identificación ...

High-technology development in regional economic growth

policy implications of dynamic externalities

Korea has had considerable success in developing its high-technology industries and these have become significant employers in this region. By analyzing the situation in Korea, this text explores the effects of dynamic externalities on the growth of regional employment in the high- technology industries. It ...

Ciudad, gestión local y nuevos desafíos ambientales

reflexiones en torno a las políticas neoliberales y sus efectos sobre nuestros territorios

En las últimas décadas, las ciudades argentinas han manifestado un rápido aumento de la población como una notable expansión territorial. Esta producción #rápida# de ciudad, solo suelos productivos o no aptos, con ocupaciones ilegales o precarias, y sin mediación directa del Estado, ha devenido en ...

New forms of urbanization

beyond the urban-rural dichotomy

There is increasing appreciation in the social sciences that context is an important element in understanding social, economic, cultural, political and demographic processes. An important element in context is the type of settlement in which people live and work and so, it is vital to ...

The human sustainable city

challenges and perspectives from the habitat agenda

Five years after Habitat II culminated with the Istanbul agreement on Sustainable Urban Development, this book brings together leading experts in fields including architecture, urban planning, sociology and geography to assess the successes and failures in fulfilling the objectives decided upon.

Políticas públicas y equilibrio territorial en el Estado autonómico

Dirs. Ángel de la Fuente Moreno, Xavier Vives Torrents. Obra impulsada por el Institut d#Estudis Autonòmics de la Generalitat de Cataluña y la Fundación BBVA cuyo objetivo es analizar la incidencia territorial de la actuación del sector público español. Una parte importante del libro ...

El siglo XX en la historia económica del País Vasco

de la gran empresa a las PYMES

Innovation and the growth of cities

This new and original book by Zoltan Acs, now available in paperback, explores the relationship between industrial innovation and economic growth at the regional level, and reaches conclusions as to why some regions grow but others decline. While the analysis draws on industrial organization, labor ...

The Oxford handbook of economic geography

edited by Gordon L. Clark, Maryann P. Feldman and Meric S. Gertler This is the most comprehensive and significant statement about the value and potential of economic geography in thirty years. More than forty leading economists and geographers from around the world investigate the rival ...

Urban and regional prosperity in a globalised new economy

There is currently a popular view that the world is undergoing profound changes in the fundamental relationships upon which it is organised. In particular, there is widespread talk of a #globalised# economy, facilitated by and associated with #new# technologies and practices. There is a further ...

Technological change and regional development in Europe

Homenaje a Manuel Ferrer Regales

Regions, globalization, and the knowledge-based economy

Políticas, instrumentos y experiencias de desarrollo rural en América Latina y en Europa

England

the state of the regions

It provides a comprehensive picture of the state of regionalism in England, charting the regionalisation of England that has occurred over recent years. The book: examines the background to the "English Question"; outlines factors leading to regionalisation in England; presents a new region by region ...

A tale of three cities

or the globalization of city management

Innovation and the growth of cities