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  • Farm-level Modelling

    Techniques, Applications and Policy

    Agriculture is the product of a complex mixture of behavioural, biophysical and market drivers. Understanding how these factors interact to produce crops and livestock for food has been the focus of economic investigation for many years. The advent of optimisation algorithms and the exponential growth in computing technology has allowed significant growth in mathematical modelling of the dynamics ... Read more

    $123.99 USD

  • Spatial Microsimulation for Rural Policy Analysis

    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    The aim of this book is to explore the challenges facing rural communities and economies and to demonstrate the potential of spatial microsimulation for policy and analysis in a rural context. This is done by providing a comprehensive overview of a particular spatial microsimulation model called SMILE (Simulation Model of the Irish Local Economy). The model has been developed over a ten year ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

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  • Urban and Regional Policy and its Effects

    Building Resilient Regions, Volume IV

    The mission of the Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects series is to inform policymakers, practitioners, and scholars about the effectiveness of select policy approaches, reforms, and experiments in addressing the key social and economic problems facing today's cities, suburbs, and metropolitan areas.Volume four of the series introduces and examines thoroughly the concept of regional ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Gift of Success and Happiness

    Transforming Your Life Through Business Process Principles

    The Gift of Success and Happiness offers a set of simple systems-based on the world’s most reliable business principles-that empowers readers to meet and overcome challenges posed by money, work, relationships, and other factors, most of which impede our success and impinge on our happiness. Based on two decades of lessons, Chip Sawicki has learned as a senior executive, parent, and community ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Economics of Uniqueness: Investing in Historic City Cores and Cultural Heritage Assets for Sustainable Development

    In a world where half of the population lives in cities and more than 90 percent of urban growth is occurring in the developing world, cities struggle to modernize without completely losing their unique character, which is embodied by their historic cores and cultural heritage assets. As countries develop, cultural heritage can provide a crucial element of continuity and stability: the past can ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • India's Reluctant Urbanization

    Thinking Beyond

    Through a close examination of India's policies, economic system, social systems and politics, this study explores the numerous perspectives and debates on India's urbanization. The authors link contemporary urban issues with emerging challenges associated with policies and city management. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Controversies in Local Economic Development

    Stories, strategies, solutions

    by Martin Perry ...
    Series series Regions and Cities
    Efforts to promote the economic development of individual localities engage the attention of academics, students and professionals. Many such analysts argue that competitive advantage can be fostered within local economies, complimenting the advent of a more globalised economy. Intensified efforts to build new economic foundations show no sign of abating despite the apparent increase in the ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Understanding and Analyzing Competitive Dynamics

    Methods, Processes, and Applications to a Regional Setting

    Understanding and Analyzing Competitive Dynamics will serve as the first book for economic development professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, and businesses because it answers the following three questions: What are the tools and techniques to analyze regional dynamics, how can these tools be used in a regional setting, and how can these tools help us formulate new directions?The book ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • The Search for a Unified Korea

    Political and Economic Implications

    by Eui-Gak Hwang ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    North Korea’s brinkmanship diplomacy has continued to disturb the world with its seemingly reckless missile testing, as the country’s leader, Kim Jong-Il, is rumored to be terminally ill with pancreatic cancer. North Korea appears to be in a state of serious internal crisis not only because its dictatorial system, albeit skillful and ruthless leadership, is inherently unstable, if not skillful and ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • National Intellectual Capital and the Financial Crisis in Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain

    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the biggest event of worldwide proportion was the 2008 global financial crisis, which was caused primarily by ineffective governance, failed surveillance systems, and implementation flaws. While fiscal and monetary policies succeeded in pulling many countries out of a financial freefall, most economies have performed beneath pre-recession levels as ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Valuing Detroit’s Art Museum

    A History of Fiscal Abandonment and Rescue

    by Jeffrey Abt ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book explores the perilous situation that faced the Detroit Institute of Arts during the city's bankruptcy, when creditors considered it a "nonessential asset" that might be sold to settle Detroit's debts. It presents the history of the museum in the context of the social, economic, and political development of Detroit, giving a history of the city as well as of the institution, and providing ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Spanish Regional Unemployment

    Disentangling the Sources of Hysteresis

    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This work investigates the time series properties of the unemployment rate of the Spanish regions over the period 1976-2011. For that purpose, the authors employ the PANIC procedures of Bai and Ng (2004), which allows to decompose the observed unemployment rate series into common factor and idiosyncratic components. This enables the authors to identify the exact source behind the hysteretic ... Read more

    $49.99 USD