Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Industries - Transportation

This brilliant and eye-opening look at the new phenomenon called the aerotropolis gives us a glimpse of the way we will live in the near future--and the way we will do business too.

Not so long ago, airports were built near cities, and roads connected one to the other. This pattern--the city in the center, the airport on the periphery--shaped life in the twentieth century, from the central city to exurban sprawl. Today, the ubiquity of jet travel, round-the-clock workdays, overnight shipping, and global business networks has turned the pattern inside out. Soon the airport will be at...

It is an unfortunate truth that our oceans offer valuable resources that are too often used unsustainably. Time and again this is due to the failure of international law to provide a framework for adequate governance. "Economics of the Oceans" examines this issue and provides a comprehensive study of ocean uses from the perspectives of law and economics.

Themes covered in the book include ocean governance, the economics of oceanic resource exploitation, offshore oil, coral reefs, shipwrecks and maritime piracy. Analytical techniques such as basic game theory, environmental economics of...

Broadly, a Public-Private Partnership (or PPP) is any collaboration between the public and private sector, but research in the UK has tended to focus on those that have been used for major infrastructure projects, such as roads, schools, and hospitals. This book compares and contrasts PPP research in the UK with that of cases in the USA, including interviews with some of the key stakeholders (decision makers in the public sector, contractors, and users) of PPPs in North America, and observations of PPPs in action (such as schools and roads).

No prior major studies have...

Destinationen sind die eigentlichen Wettbewerbseinheiten im Tourismus. Weil Destinationen aus Menschen als Burger und nicht nur aus Angestellten bestehen, weil Destinationen aus verschiedenen unabhangigen Unternehmen und nicht nur aus unterstellten Abteilungen bestehen, weil Tourismus verschiedene externe Effekte erzeugt und aus verschiedenen anderen Grunden braucht es fur das Management von Destinationen neue Ansatze. Wie entsteht in einer Destination ein zusammenhangendes touristisches Produkt, welche Erfolgsbedingungen lassen sich fur Strategien von Destinationen ableiten, wie lasst...