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Regional Science: Perspectives for the Future
This book contains up-to-date original contributions by some of the world's best known experts in the area of urban and regional science. Regional science provides the theoretical basis of urban and regional planning. The subject covers such topics as regional development, regional accounts, spatial price computation, regional and interregional knowledge networks and measurement of regional quality of life. A considerable amount of change has taken place in the spatial pattern of socio-economic activities and their interactions over the last half of the century leading to the need for more advanced tools of analysis in regional science. This book fulfils this need.
A New Approach to Global Studies from the Perspective of Small Nations
With emphasis on East Asian and North American examples – notably Japan and Quebec – Date, Laniel and their contributors take a new approach to the understanding of small nations and their role in the international system. Small nations, by their very nature, raise significant questions about what a nation is. Some small nations are sovereign states with relatively small populations and limited territory, others are nations within larger sovereign states, with distinctive cultures, governance structures or other features that differentiate them from their “parent” state. By focussing on non-European nations in particular, the contributors to this volume challenge our conceptions of w...
Indigenous People and Economic Development
Indigenous peoples are an intrinsic part of countries like Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Finland, USA, India, Russia and almost all parts of South America and Africa. A considerable amount of research has been done during the twentieth century mainly by anthropologists, sociologists and linguists in order to describe, and document their traditional life style for the protection and safeguarding of their established knowledge, skills, languages and beliefs. These communities are engaging and adapting rapidly to the changing circumstances partly caused by post modernisation and the process of globalization. These have led them to aspire to better living standards, as well as preserving their...
Critical Political Studies
A collective picture of modern capitalism suggests that economic prospects, political costs, and implications for human development and freedom under this system are grim indeed. However the possibility of an alternative viewpoint, and an alternative system, provide grounds for optimism. The authors in Critical Political Studies challenge the neo-liberal, pro-market ideology that has arisen in the age of the so-called "post-communist" new world order, wrestling with the implications of globalization, democratization, and the politics of radical social change Written as a tribute to the remarkable intellectual career of Colin Leys, the debates in this book deal with some of the most pressing ...
Small Nations, High Ambitions
Given the importance that entrepreneurship and start-up businesses in technology-intensive sectors like life sciences, renewable energy, artificial intelligence, financial technologies, software and others have come to assume in economic development, the access of entrepreneurs to appropriate levels of finance has become a major focus of policymakers in recent decades. Yet, this prominence has led to a variety of policy models across countries and even within countries, as different levels of government have adapted to new challenges by refining or transforming pre-existing institutions and crafting new policy tools. Small Nations, High Ambitions investigates the roots of such policy diversi...
Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED) The Non-profit Sector in a Changing Economy
This publication offers a comprehensive and ground-breaking assessment of the new trends in the field of non-profit sector studies.
Perspectives on Ottawa's High-tech Sector
Canada's capital - Ottawa - is earning a reputation as a global technology centre that offers a dynamic mix of economic, cultural, educational and recreational opportunities. It is an advanced technology centre, particularly known for its research and development in the fields of telecommunications, technology services, software development, defence and security, microelectronics/wireless and photonics. Readers can see innovation and the elements of the New Economy revealed by the different authors detailing different accounts and analyses of the Ottawa area. The book is organised into four themes: 1. Ottawa: A Knowledge City?, 2. Planning the Cluster: By Decision, By Design or By Destiny?, 3. 'Growing' the Cluster: Idea Farming and Innovation Strategies for Economic Development, and 4. The Unique Ottawa Cluster: Regional, Bilingual and Cosmopolitan.
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Génies des lieux
Au moment où la mondialisation et l’ouverture des frontières semblent inaugurer un imaginaire de l’échange à dimension planétaire, apparaît aussi une dynamique de la différence, des clivages, voire de la barbarie. Par delà l’unanimité altermondialiste, un sujet collectif est peut-être en train de tracer les lignes d’un nouveau « caractère social ». Les pratiques sociales de l’espace local/régional redéfinissent-elles un nouveau rapport au monde ? N’y a-t-il pas des génies des lieux et des esprits qui participent à une esthétique sociale de l’implication civique sans gommer les références cosmopolitiques ? Le développement de l’ouvrage s’articule d’abo...
La gouvernance locale des forets publiques quebecoises
Au regard de la crise profonde qui touche la santé des forêts québécoises, la question de la gouvernance locale des forêts se pose avec force. Ce livre porte sur six cas de gouvernance locale des forêts en Abitibi-Témiscamingue et en Outaouais. Leurs contributions au développement régional, en matière de travail, d'environnement et d'intégration, sont évaluées. (In view of the deep crisis affecting the health of Quebec's forests, the question of local forest governance arises with force. This book focuses on six cases of local forest governance in Abitibi-Témiscamingue and Outaouais. Their contributions to regional development, in terms of labour, environment and integration, are assessed.)
