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Engaging with the theory and policy of regional competitiveness, this title provides an integrated critique of the concept that is suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as academics interested in regional development and policy.

This book provides a comprehensive spatial guide to the globalized world of the 21st century, focusing on nine timely global themes as well as insights and ideas for worlds of the future: demographic trends in the contemporary world and migration; problems of development; religion; war, conflict and terrorism; challenges in transportation; media and the world community; the world community and diseases; cities, and the endangered Earth. This book will be of interest to those studying geography, human-environment relations, politics, globalization studies and international relations.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of recent research on the internet, emphasizing its spatial dimensions, geospatial applications, and the numerous social and geographic implications such as the digital divide and the mobile internet.

This book explores common ethical issues faced by human geographers in their research. It offers practical guidance for research planning and design that incorporates geographic disciplinary knowledge to conceptualise research ethics.

Felix Guattari was a French philosopher, known for his work in an institutional psychiatric clinic during the 1950s. His ideas remain intrinsic to the social sciences sphere today. This interdisciplinary book evaluates Guattari's experimental and creative production of ideas, primarily through an Geography lens. This book demonstrates the pertin

Presents a review of theoretical arguments about agricultural structures, and defines family farming. This book analyses the conditions of access to land and water, labour, livestock, tools and seed and reviews marketing arrangements and how they have changed since 1900. It explores issues of the farmer as steward of the environment.

Offers an account of the relationship between innovation, design, corporate competitiveness and place. This book explores design economies through an analysis of corporate strategies, the relationship between product and designer, copying and imitation including nefarious learning, design and competitiveness, and design-centred regional policies.

This book provides an original approach to thinking about the processes of regional integration. Focusing mostly on communities in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Deals with issues surrounding post-development which is one of the most significant debates in the field of north-south relations at the beginning of the twenty-first century. This book explores the possibilities and limitations of post-development theory, drawing on empirical studies of movements and communities in several continents.

This work defines citizenship in relation to the rural environment. It expands and explores a widened conceptualization of citizenship and sets out a range of examples where citizenship has been expressed in and over the rural environment.

From Manila to London, academics and policy makers have attempted to understand, and to some extent strive for, world city status. This book is a study of Cape Town's standing in this network of urban centres, and an investigation of the conceptual appropriateness of this world city hypothesis.