Solid waste is a major urban challenge worldwide and decisions over which technologies or methods to apply can have beneficial or detrimental long-term consequences. Inappropriate management of solid waste can lead to damaging environmental impacts, particularly in the megacities of the Global South."
Urban Recycling Cooperatives" explores the multiple narratives and interdisciplinary nature of waste studies, drawing attention to the pressing social, economic and environmental challenges related to waste management. The book asks questions such as: how do we define waste and our...
Solid waste is a major urban challenge worldwide and decisions over which technologies or methods to apply can have beneficial or detrimental long-...
Tourism has become one of the largest and fastest growing sectors in the world economy. Increasingly, research on tourism destinations has been at the centre of debates concerning destination competitiveness, governance, policies and destination management and marketing.
This book investigates tourist destinations from two different perspectives. First, it approaches destinations using the concept of tourist clusters and investigates their role in competitiveness and firm performances. The second perspective studies the development of models of competitiveness and...
Tourism has become one of the largest and fastest growing sectors in the world economy. Increasingly, research on tourism destinations has been at ...
Research interest in the service sector has boomed in recent years as deindustrialisation became entrenched. Instead of being regarded as merely supplementary to traditional industry and manufacturing, services have generated progressively rising levels of growth in developed economies while at the same time coming to be recognised as major drivers of innovation.
Among the factors which have helped service companies notch up swifter growth rates than all other sectors are the outsourcing of such services by other sectors, including the development of information and communication...
Research interest in the service sector has boomed in recent years as deindustrialisation became entrenched. Instead of being regarded as merely su...
Mountain regions are subject to a unique set of economic pressures. While often primarily rural in nature, they often abut large cities while the development of industries such as hydroelectric power and the rapid development of tourism can bring about sweeping socio-economic change and vast demographic alterations.
This book provides an overview of these forces increased urbanisation, environmental pressures, cross-border governance of regional development and spatial disparities while much of the real world context draws on the Alps, spanning as they do, the significant economies...
Mountain regions are subject to a unique set of economic pressures. While often primarily rural in nature, they often abut large cities while the d...
The concept of smart cities has become one of the most significant new lines of thinking to emerge in the social sciences in recent years, both from the research and policy angles. To date, the focus in smart specialisation has been on what regions as a whole can do to bring about innovation, but it hasn t necessarily addressed the role cities play within the field. This book aims to address that gap, drawing together a team of leading contributors, to illustrate this process with particular focus on cities.
Smart Development in Smart Communities discusses the...
The concept of smart cities has become one of the most significant new lines of thinking to emerge in the social sciences in recent years, both fro...
The main focus of this book is on what we can call traditional firms. This tends to mean production based on reasonably stable routines, with labor costs playing an important role and where production technology is available on the world market but the adaption of the technology in production is unique to the firm. In short, the traditional firm has a need for innovations and is dependent on efficient knowledge management to improve productivity.
Theoretical developments that link knowledge to competitiveness are studied with particular reference to the meat producing...
The main focus of this book is on what we can call traditional firms. This tends to mean production based on reasonably stable routines, with labor...
This book offers a complex analysis of the spatial aspects of scientific collaboration, addressing the topic at a number of levels: individual (personal), organizational, urban, regional, national, and international. Spatial patterns of scientific collaboration are analysed along with their determinants and consequences.
The examples of scientific collaboration policy discussed in the book are taken from three different settings: the European Union, the USA and China. Through a number of case studies the authors analyse the background, development and evaluation of these...
This book offers a complex analysis of the spatial aspects of scientific collaboration, addressing the topic at a number of levels: individual (per...
The processes of multi-scalar regional urbanization are occurring worldwide. Such processes are clearly distinguishable from those of the 19th and 20th centuries due to the shifting concepts of both the city and the metropolis. International literature highlights how what we have historically associated with the idea of cities has long been subjected to consistent reconfiguration, which involves stressing some of the typical features of the idea of "cityness."
Post-Metropolitan Territories and Urban Space is the product of a research project funded by the Italian Ministry for...
The processes of multi-scalar regional urbanization are occurring worldwide. Such processes are clearly distinguishable from those of the 19th and ...
Borders are critical to the development and survival of modern states, offer security against external threats, and mark public policy and identity difference. At the same time, borders, and borderlands, are places where people, ideas, and economic goods meet and intermingle.
The United States-Canada border demonstrates all of the characteristics of modern borders, and epitomises the debates that surround them. This book examines the development of the U.S.-Canada border, provides a detailed analysis of its current operation, and concludes with an evaluation of the border's...
Borders are critical to the development and survival of modern states, offer security against external threats, and mark public policy and identity...
