Are pandemics the end of cities? Or, do they present an opportunity for us to reshape cities in ways making us even more innovative, successful and sustainable? Pandemics such as COVID-19 (and comparable disruptions) have caused intense debates over the future of cities. Through a series of...

Urbanization and the production of space -- Spatial Production and Governance of Urban Agglomeration in China -- Production of space in the middle-scale region in China -- Spatial production and spatial dialectic of New Urban Districts in China -- Disorder or Reorder? The Spatial Production of...

This open access short reader discusses the emerging patterns of sedentary migration versus mobility of the highly-skilled thereby providing a comprehensive overview of the recent literature on highly-skilled migration. Highly-skilled migrations are arguably the only non-controversial migrant...

Im Anthropozän machen Menschen nicht nur Geschichte - sondern auch Erdgeschichte. Denn unser heutiger Konsum wird die ferne Zukunft prägen. Die Enkel unserer Enkel werden mit den Resten der Plastikflaschen, Asphaltbeläge, Covid-Masken und Hühnerknochen leben. Gleichzeitig verbrauchen wir...

Oil Spaces traces petroleum's impact through a range of territories from across the world, showing how industrially drilled petroleum and its refined products have played a major role in transforming the built environment in ways that are often not visible or recognized. Over the past century...

"This book documents how COVID-19 impacts gender, agriculture, and food systems across the globe with on-the-ground accounts and personal reflections from scholars, practitioners, and community members. During the coronavirus pandemic with many people under lockdown, continual agricultural...

"This book documents how COVID-19 impacts gender, agriculture, and food systems across the globe with on-the-ground accounts and personal reflections from scholars, practitioners, and community members. During the coronavirus pandemic with many people under lockdown, continual agricultural...

Since its inception over two millennia ago, the spice trade has connected and transformed the environments, politics, cultures, and cuisines of vastly different societies around the world. The 'magical' qualities of spices mean they offer more than a mere food flavoring, often evoking memories...

Oil Spaces traces petroleum’s impact through a range of territories from across the world, showing how industrially drilled petroleum and its refined products have played a major role in transforming the built environment in ways that are often not visible or recognized. Over the past century...

We construct social and physical proximity measures between pairs of firms, using the professional trajectory of board members and geographic data. A firm’s tendency to engage in corporate misconduct and earnings management increases with its social proximity to firms exhibiting similar past...

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...

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...

The division of America into red states and blue states misleadingly suggests that states are split into two camps, but along most dimensions, like political orientation, states are on a continuum. By historical standards, the number of swing states is not particularly low, and America's...

Everyday life as we knew it is increasingly challenged in a world of climate, social, health and political crisis. Emerging technologies, data analytics and automation open up new possibilities which have implications for energy generation, storage and energy demand. To support these changes we...

"Urban heritage, which is part of the conceptual expansion of cultural heritage, has become an extraordinarily complex notion. Any aspect of urban life and experience can become heritage and this heritage is then continuously re-interpreted and exploited as a source not only for a city's...

Purpose: The economic crisis in Greece has caused widespread suffering both in society and the economy. Among other things, new forms of geographical mobilities emerged highlighting the country's inability to retain a scientifically skilled workforce. One of the most important scientific...

The endowment effect – the tendency for owners (potential sellers) to value objects more than potential buyers – is among the most widely studied judgment and decision-making phenomena. However, the current research is the first to explore whether the effect varies across cultures. Given...

The global food consumption today is environmentally and socially not sustainable. While greenhousegas emissions increase due to changing diets, the dubble burden of malnutrition persists especially in emerging economies of the Global South such as India. This thesis explores the triangle of...

Purpose: The economic crisis in Greece has caused widespread suffering both in society and the economy. Among other things, new forms of geographical mobilities emerged highlighting the country’s inability to retain a scientifically skilled workforce. One of the most important scientific...

"This book presents stories of sustainability from communities in circumpolar regions as they grapple with environmental, economic, and societal changes and challenges. Polar regions are changing rapidly. These changes will dramatically effect ecosystems, economy, people, communities, and their...

Ungleiche Welt. In seiner einmaligen Kombination aus engagierter Kartografie und Expertenbeiträgen ist der Atlas ein verlässliches Navigationssystem durch die Welt der Globalisierung. Einige Stichwörter: Klima, Klimakrise - Konflikte (Ukraine...) - Welthandel, Machtfaktor Internet -...

"This book examines the rural transition and transportation in China. It covers demographic change, settlement transformation, and infrastructure development in rural areas, as well as changes in transportation expenditures, travel behavior, and accessibility of basic public services among rural...

We construct a database, with global coverage, that provides measures of the cultural and environmental characteristics of the pre-industrial ancestors of the world's current populations. In this paper, we describe the construction of the database, including the underlying data, the procedure to...

Rezension: Die Auswirkungen der Globalisierung und Prognosen hierzu werden in diesem Buch grafisch dargestellt, Lösungsansätze und Erklärungen geliefert. Es geht u.a. um Klima, Urbanisierung, Gewalt, Migration, Ernährung oder Kultur. Rezension (ekz): In diesem schweren Hardcover werden die...

"Markets are usually discussed in abstract terms, as an economic organizing principle, a generalized alternative to government planning, or even as powerful actors in their own right, able to shape local and national economic destinies. But markets are not abstract. Even as the idea of the...

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...

In Bolivien wird seit dem Jahr 2009 versucht, eine ernährungssouveräne und postneoliberale Gesellschaft aufzubauen und sich von ökonomischer Fremdherrschaft zu befreien. Im Rahmen dieser empirischen Untersuchung, die auf zwei Forschungsaufenthalten in den Jahren 2013 und 2015 basiert, stehen...

To better understand the non-economic drivers of growth in emerging industries, this paper examines the craft beer industry. Specifically, the paper will review two examples-the Black Cloister Brewing Company in Toledo, OH and 3rd Turn Brewery, Louisville, KY-to understand how the values of...

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...

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...

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...

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...

I investigate the consequences of long-run persistency of a society's preferences for cultural goods. Historical cultural activity is approximated with the frequency of births of music composers during the Renaissance and is linked with contemporary measures of cultural activity in Italian...

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...

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...