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Ecological Economics and Policy
Series: Routledge Textbooks in Environmental and Agricultural Economics
This new text extends the traditional reach of ecological economics into the fields of management and economic policy. Its theoretical basis is brought to bear on actual real world problems and a wider range of policy instruments are introduced as a way of emphasizing that the critical...
To Be Published January 9th 2014 by Routledge
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Service Industries and Asia Pacific Cities
New Development Trajectories
Series: Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia
During the second half of the twentieth century, development in the Asia-Pacific region has been dominated by industrialization. However, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, services, in particular, finance, information and creative services, have become deeply embedded in the processes...
Published June 21st 2012 by Routledge
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New Economic Spaces in Asian Cities
From Industrial Restructuring to the Cultural Turn
Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography
The East and Southeast Asia region constitutes the world’s most compelling theatre of accelerated globalization and industrial restructuring. Following a spectacular realization of the ‘industrialization paradigm’ and a period of services-led growth, the early twenty-first century economic...
Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
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Geographies of the New Economy
Critical Reflections
Series: Regions and Cities
What is the 'new economy'? Where is it? How does it differ from the 'old economy'? How does the 'new economy' relate to issues such as the nature of work, social inclusion and exclusion? Geographies of the New Economy explores the meaning of the 'new economy' at the global scale from the...
Published February 18th 2009 by Routledge
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Service Worlds
People, Organisations, Technologies
As the twenty-first century begins, significant changes are occurring in the way that services and goods are produced and consumed. One of the key drivers of this change is information and communications technology (ICT). It has transformed the role of space and time in patterns of economic...
Published November 5th 2003 by Routledge
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Knowledge, Space, Economy
Published December 13th 2000 by Routledge
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The Geography of Services
Noting that, compared to manufacturing, service firms are much more sensitive to such spatial concerns as accessibility and crowding, 12 studies address the extent to which service industries lead the growth in Europe's contemporary economy....
Published December 30th 1992 by Routledge
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Services and Metropolitan Development
International Perspectives
The dynamics of national and international urban systems, as well as individual metropolitan areas, are closely connected with the decisions and actions of firms and institutions in the service sector. Services and Metropolitan Development explores the processes guiding both the development and the...
Published April 3rd 1991 by Routledge
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Service Industries
A Geographical Appraisal
The first major synthesis of an emerging geography which is undoubtedly changing the way in which academics, planners and policy-makers identify and interpret the spatial development of cities and regions in the 1980s....
Published December 18th 1985 by Routledge