DSpace Collection:192.168.6.56/handle/123456789/244862024-03-02T15:29:57Z2024-03-02T15:29:57ZConvergence Clubs and Spatial ExternalitiesStilianos Alexiadis192.168.6.56/handle/123456789/577952020-07-27T07:49:11Z2013-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Convergence Clubs and Spatial Externalities
Authors: Stilianos Alexiadis
Editors: Manfred M. Fischer
Geoffrey J.D. Hewings
Anna Nagurney
Peter Nijkamp
Folke Snickars
Description: This book is concerned with whether levels of labour productivity across the
regions of an enlarged Europe converge or diverge. In particular, it is argued that
the EU-27 regions follow a pattern of club convergence. In the early chapters the
neoclassical model is extended by several elements from Endogenous Growth and
New Economic Geography models, as a theoretical framework. It is argued that
club or local convergence is attributed to differences in technology creation and
adoption and agglomeration externalities across regions. This argument is developed in an explicitly spatial context, taking into account interaction and spillovers
from technology creation across geographical areas. To support this argument, a
theoretical model is developed, which attributes club convergence to existing
differences with respect to the degree of technology adoption across regions. This
model postulates that convergence amongst regions is feasible only if they share
similar structural characteristics, regarding the creation and adoption of technology.2013-01-01T00:00:00ZThe Lower Damodar River, IndiaBhattacharyya, Kumkum192.168.6.56/handle/123456789/576062020-07-27T08:01:22Z2011-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: The Lower Damodar River, India
Authors: Bhattacharyya, Kumkum
Editors: Prof. Marcus Nüsser
Description: The series aims at fostering the discussion on the complex relationships between physical landscapes, natural resources, and their modification by human land use in various environments of Asia. It is widely acknowledged that human-environment- interactions become increasingly important in area studies and development research, taking into account regional differences as well as bio-physical, socioe- conomic and cultural particularities.
The book series seeks to explore theoretic and conceptual reflection on dynamic human-environment systems applying advanced methodology and innovative research perspectives. The main themes of the series cover urban and rural landscapes in Asia. Examples include topics such as land and forest degradation, glaciers in Asia, mountain environments, dams in Asia, medical geography, vulnerability and mitigation strategies, natural hazards and risk management concepts, environmental change, impacts studies and consequences for local communities. The relevant themes of the series are mainly focused on geographical research perspectives of area studies, however there is scope for interdisciplinary contributions.2011-01-01T00:00:00ZEvaluating Local Economic and Employment DevelopmentAlistair Nolan, Ging Wong,Sergio Arzeni192.168.6.56/handle/123456789/550832020-07-27T08:01:32Z2004-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Evaluating Local Economic and Employment Development
Authors: Alistair Nolan, Ging Wong,Sergio Arzeni
Description: The papers brought together in this volume were first presented at the
conference “Evaluating Local Economic and Employment Development”, held
in Vienna in November 2002. This conference was organised by the OECD’s
Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED) Programme, with
financial and logistical support from the European Commission (DG
Employment) and Austria’s Ministry of Economic Affairs and Labour. The
holding of the conference was motivated by the widespread perception that
there is a deficit in many OECD member countries with respect to the volume
and quality of evaluative research on policies and programmes used to
enhance local development. Why, for instance, is the evaluation literature on
local development so relatively thin? Is this a result of inadequate public
commitment to and practice of evaluation in this field, or perhaps a symptom
of conceptual and methodological difficulties particular to local development?
These and other issues were explored in the conference papers and
discussions.2004-01-01T00:00:00ZChanging Things Moving People192.168.6.56/handle/123456789/547802020-07-27T08:10:30Z2001-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Changing Things Moving People
Editors: Ruth Kaufmann-Hayoz Heinz Gutscher
Description: This book results from a pioneering effort to organize a productive interdisciplinary research program on sustainable development policy in a small country not previously recognized as a world leader in environmental social science. The results are very promising, considering the short time frame and the high barriers to success for such an enterprise - differences in concepts and terminology, disciplinary myopia, and the inherent difficulty of the problem. In the USA, where I work, these barriers continue to pose major challenges after some 30 years of effort. Switzerland has made noteworthy progress in only five. I hope this book represents the beginning of a long- term effort at problem-oriented interdisciplinary collaboration among Swiss researchers and prac- titioners.2001-01-01T00:00:00Z