"Global Issues is an accessible, wide-ranging introduction to the major environmental and development issues confronting the modern world. Spanning disciplines such as political science, economics, sociology, ecology, international relations, and development studies, this popular textbook...

How do geographic and historical-cultural factors shape new business formation? Using novel data on new business registrations, we document that 75% of the variation in new business formation is explained by time-invariant county-level factors and examine the extent to which such variation is...

1. Digital shutdown -- 2. Internet and Politics -- 3. Internet and Nationalism -- 4. Social Media and Shutdown Activism -- 5. Digital Politics and Internet -- 6. Internet and Territorial sovereignty -- 7. Social Media/Media governance -- 8. Livelihood and Digital shutdown -- 9. Politics of...

Chapter 1-Creative economy, degrowth and limitation -- Chapter 2-Towards a new paradigm of the creative city or the same devil in disguise? culture-led urban (re)development and sustainability -- Chapter 3-Creative industries and the crisis of social reproduction -- Chapter 4-Re-thinking the...

This book examines regional responses to marginality by highlighting social innovation, local capacity and new path formations in what are often seen as economically weak regions where policy and institutional considerations play a key role. Divided into three parts, it covers a wide range of...

The term "market" originally portrayed a public space for economic transactions but the term has since evolved into an abstract and disputed idea. Despite modern markets seemingly omnipresent nature, their specific geographies have undergone relatively little analysis.0This collection of new...

Introduction: Economic growth and community construction at the Greater Mekong Subregion / Xin Chen and Charles Samuel Johnston -- Constructing a region (the GMS) out of a river / Nicholas Tarling -- 100% Pure Mekong : the key to identity, development and tourism in the GMS? / Charles Samuel...

Unsere Welt ändert sich rasant. Während die Globalisierung der Weltwirtschaft immer schneller voranschreitet, sich Technik, Wissenschaft und Massenkultur nach globalen Standards über den Erdball verbreiten, verharrt die politische Welt in nationalstaatlichem Denken. Die bestehenden...

Mobility in/for Europe -- The optimistic 90s -- The turn of the century -- Doing mobile ethnography -- On the road in Europe -- A country on wheels -- Belonging to the road -- Speed and smoothness -- Questioning Euro-mobility -- When did mobility turn into europeanness? -- Requiem for a mobile...

In this paper, we study the cultural geography of the Veneto Region on the basis of a pseudo-diffusion approach to the analysis of the inherent semantic spatial data. We find somewhat surprising results, and, in particular, that Venice, indisputably the Region's cultural hub in terms of...

Stadtentwicklung und -politik stehen spätestens seit den 1990er-Jahren unter dem Postulat einer nachhaltigen Entwicklung. Doch was bedeutet es für Städte konkret, eine "Lokale Agenda 21" zu verwirklichen? Der Band vereint Beiträge einer interdisziplinären Forschergruppe, ergänzt um...

Variations of order in a new market context -- Changing meaning of bazaar trade in Central Asia -- Organizing collectively : founding a trade union at Dordoi Bazaar -- Adapting to bazaar ownership : business as diplomacy -- Centralizing to modernize : municipal law and order at Osh Bazaar --...

Intro -- Global Issues -- Contents -- Plates -- Figures, Maps, and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- The Creation of Global Issues -- Developing toward What? -- Notes -- 1 Population -- The Changing Population of the World -- Causes of the Population Explosion -- How...

This atlas provides a macro-regional overview of the areas that surround the European Union, from the Sahara to the Middle East, Western Balkans to European Russia, Turkey to the Arctic. Detailing key socio-economic data as well as developmental trends, the maps provide a comprehensive...

We build a model of secession crises where voters may wish to accommodate the minority to prevent secession. We show the existence of a majority voting equilibrium with a government's type biased in favor of the minority. We propose a measure of secession risk and perform the comparative static...

Lifespan psychological research has long been interested in the contextual embeddedness of individual development. To examine if and how regional factors relate to between-person disparities in the progression of late-life well-being, we applied three-level growth curve models to 24-year...

Neue Ausgabe des 'Atlas der Globalisierung' zum Thema Postwachstumsgesellschaft mit über 300 Karten und Grafiken. Wirtschaftswachstum gilt als Allheilmittel im modernen Kapitalismus. Doch auf einem begrenzten Planeten kann es kein unbegrenztes Wachstum geben. So kann es nicht weitergehen. Aber...

The political geography of campaign contributions -- The timing of presidential campaign contributions -- Participation in the early financing of presidential candidates -- A tale of two parties? : do republicans and democratic contenders have different geographical fundraising bases? -- Median...