Programa de desarrollo rural de Navarra 2000-2006

The technological evolution of industrial districts

The Technological Evolution of Industrial Districts collects a wide array of theoretical and empirical contributions on the issue of industrial districts and gives insights into the complexity of industrial clustering, which has received growing international attention in the last decade. The industrial district model has ...

Reestructuración y territorio en los sistemas productivos industriales valencianos

La modificación sustancial del contexto social,político y económico durante las dos últimas décadas ha traído consigo un nuevo modelo de organización espacial de la actividad económica y de los vínculos que se crean entre territorios, al que no ha sido ajena la Comunidad Valenciana ...

Acceptability of transport pricing strategies

Several studies and research projects all over the world have considered transport pricing strategies as promising attempts to solve the urgent traffic problems in urban areas. However, empirical results have shown that public and political acceptability of such strategies is low. Until now, acceptance research ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The diversity of modern capitalism

This book proposes a comparative analysis of modern capitalism. It identifies five different types of modern economies: the market-based economies, Asian capitalism, the Continental European model, the social democratic economies, and the Mediterranean model. It presents their main institutional characteristics and relates the different models ...

The end of diversity?

prospects for German and Japanese capitalism

After the devastation of World War II, Germany and Japan built national capitalist institutions that were remarkably successful in terms of national reconstruction and international competitiveness. Yet both "miracles" have since faltered, allowing US capital and its institutional forms to establish global dominance. National varieties ...

Un manifiesto anticapitalista

Las manifestaciones antiglobalización de Seattle, Washington, Millau, Melbourne, Praga, Seúl, Niza, Quebec City, Gotemburgo, Génova o Barcelona, ocurridas en los últimos tres años, no obedecen a brotes de protesta esporádicos. Tienen que ver con un sentimiento generalizado de rechazo a los valores del mercado y ...

System in crisis

the dynamics of free market capitalism

In the late 1960s the operating world capitalist system hit a snag, exposing cracks that went to its very foundations. At first, this crisis was viewed as part of a normal business cycle of capital accumulation in which markets become saturated. The reaction created a ...