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Cover Productivity and the Pandemic
Productivity and the Pandemic
Challenges and Insights from Covid-19
Editors: Philip McCann and Tim Vorley
This forward-thinking book examines the potential impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on productivity. Productivity and the Pandemic features 21 chapters authored by 46 experts, examining different aspects of how the pandemic is likely to impact on the economy, society and governance in the medium- and long-term. Drawing on a range of empirical evidence, analytical arguments and new conceptual insights, the book challenges our thinking on many dimensions. With a keen focus on place, firms, production factors and institutions, the chapters highlight how the pre-existing challenges to productivity have been variously exacerbated and mitigated by the pandemic and points out ways forward for appropriate policy thinking in response to the crisis.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
19 Jan 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800374607
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Economics 2021
Cover Handbook on Urban Food Security in the Global South
Handbook on Urban Food Security in the Global South
Editors: Jonathan Crush, Bruce Frayne, and Gareth Haysom
The ways in which the rapid urbanization of the Global South is transforming food systems and food supply chains, and the food security of urban populations is an often neglected topic. This international group of authors addresses this profound transformation from a variety of different perspectives and disciplinary lenses, providing an important corrective to the dominant view that food insecurity is a rural problem requiring increases in agricultural production.
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Handbook
Publication Date:
18 Dec 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786431516
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Social and Political Science 2020
Cover Energy Cultures
Energy Cultures
Technology, Justice, and Geopolitics in Eastern Europe
Michael C. LaBelle
This thought-provoking book explores the concept of energy cultures as a means of understanding social and political relations and how energy injustices are created. Using Eastern Europe as an example, it examines the radical transition occurring as the region leaves behind the legacy of the Soviet Union, and the effects of the resulting power struggle between the energy cultures of Russia and the European Union.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
20 Nov 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788975766
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Social and Political Science 2020
Cover Energy Transitions in Mediterranean Countries
Energy Transitions in Mediterranean Countries
Consumption, Emissions and Security of Supplies
Silvana Bartoletto
This illuminating book analyses energy transitions, carbon dioxide emissions and the security of energy supply in Mediterranean countries. Unpacking the history of energy transitions, from coal to oil and natural gas, and from non-renewable to renewable energy sources, Silvana Bartoletto offers a comparative approach to the major trends in energy consumption, production, trade and security in Mediterranean countries in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.
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Publication Date:
06 Oct 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788977555
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Social and Political Science 2020
Cover Regions and Innovation Policies in Europe
Regions and Innovation Policies in Europe
Learning from the Margins
Editors: Manuel González-López and Bjørn T. Asheim
Offering a novel contribution within the growing field of regional innovation policies, this book combines recent theoretical developments and empirical contributions, with a particular focus on non-core regions. Leading academics in the field discuss the topics of regional path transformation, place-based strategies and policy learning. Also included are sections on the role of EU institutions on the promotion of regional innovation and the analysis and comparison of the innovation policies experiences of four non-core European regions.
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Publication Date:
01 Apr 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789904161
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Social and Political Science 2020
Cover The Infrastructured State
The Infrastructured State
Territoriality and the National Infrastructure System
Colin Turner
At the core of the logic of this book is that states engage in infrastructuring as a means of securing and enhancing their territoriality. By positioning infrastructure as a system, there is a presumption that all infrastructures exhibit some degree of mutual dependence. As such, a National Infrastructure System (NIS) is not simply about conventional conceptions of infrastructure based on those that support economic activity (i.e. energy, transport and information) but also about broader hard and soft structures that both enable and are supported by the aforementioned economic infrastructures. Consequently, this book offers an ambitious holistic view on the form of NIS arguing that the infrastructural mandate requires a conception of the state that encapsulates themes from both the competition and the welfare states in infrastructure provision.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
04 Feb 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788970310
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Social and Political Science 2020
Cover Geofinance between Political and Financial Geographies
Geofinance between Political and Financial Geographies
A Focus on the Semi-Periphery of the Global Financial System
Editors: Silvia Grandi, Christian Sellar, and Juvaria Jafri
This edited collection explores the boundaries between political and financial geographies, focusing on the linkages between the changing strategies, policies and institutions of the state. It also investigates banks and other financial institutions affected by both state policies and a globalizing financial system, and the financial resources available to firms as well as households. In so doing, the book highlights how an empirical focus on the semi-periphery of the financial system may generate new perspectives on the entanglement between (geo) politics and finance.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
05 Dec 2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789903850
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Economics 2019
Cover Handbook on the Geographies of Globalization
Handbook on the Geographies of Globalization
Editors: Robert C. Kloosterman, Virginie Mamadouh, and Pieter Terhorst
Processes of globalization have changed the world in many, often fundamental, ways. Increasingly these processes are being debated and contested. This Handbook offers a timely, rich as well as critical panorama of these multifaceted processes with up-to-date chapters by renowned specialists from many countries. It comprises chapters on the historical background of globalization, different geographical perspectives (including world systems analysis and geopolitics), the geographies of flows (of people, goods and services, and capital), and the geographies of places (including global cities, clusters, port cities and the impact of climate change).
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Handbook
Publication Date:
30 Nov 2018
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781785363849
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Social and Political Science 2018
Cover Regional Infrastructure Systems
Regional Infrastructure Systems
The Political Economy of Regional Infrastructure
Colin Turner
As the international economy globalises, there is a need for national infrastructure systems to adapt to form a global infrastructure system. This network of networks aids mobility between national systems as a means of supporting their territorial needs and preferences. This reflects a strategic approach to state infrastructuring as nations seek to utilise these physical systems to support and enhance their territoriality. Providing a thorough examination through the lens of economic infrastructure, the book addresses the forces of integration and fragmentation in global networks.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
28 Sep 2018
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786430588
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Social and Political Science 2018
Cover Varieties of Capital Cities
Varieties of Capital Cities
The Competitiveness Challenge for Secondary Capitals
David Kaufmann
The political and symbolic centrality of capital cities has been challenged by increasing economic globalization. This is especially true of secondary capital cities; capital cities which, while being the seat of national political power, are not the primary economic city of their nation state. David Kaufmann examines the unique challenges that these cities face entering globalised, inter-urban competition while not possessing a competitive political economy.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
31 Aug 2018
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788116435
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Social and Political Science 2018