This volume contains essays from outsourcing experts that explore the current state China. The essays cover everything from China's rapidly increasing demand for imported energy to global warming to the question of whether China is or is not rapidly becoming a world class power in military,...

'This book provides a fascinating perspective on why China will very likely continue to play a major role in world export at a time when it is losing its comparative advantage in labor-intensive manufacturing products as a result of rapidly rising labor cost and appreciation of its currency -...

Contents: Foreword -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- Part I Land use and real estate impacts -- 2. Spatial impacts of high speed rail on land value change -- 3. Spatial-temporal impacts on urban growth: the case of the Beijing-Shanghai line -- 4. Housing impact of long-distance high speed rail --...

Asia, mobilities, consumption power and the Arctic / Young-Sook Lee -- A critique on the non-critical application of Veblen's conspicuous consumption : a perspective on Asian mobilities in the Arctic / Young-Sook Lee -- Chinese tourism consumption vis-à-vis tourism development strategies in the...

Aktuelle Herausforderungen der Wirtschaftsförderer in Deutschland.-Wirtschaftsförderung und Hochschule: Kooperationsformen-Theorie.- Wirtschaftsförderung und Hochschule: Kooperationsformen-Praxis -- Fachkräftemangel: Theorie -- Fachkräftemangel: Praxis -- Infrastruktur im ländlichen Raum:...

Land use has important consequences for the environment, public health, economic productivity, inequality and social segregation. Land use policies are often complex and require co-ordination across all levels of government as well as across policy sectors. Not surprisingly, land use decisions...

From the welfare state's origins in Europe, the idea of human welfare being organized through a civilized, institutionalized and uncorrupt state has caught the imagination of social activists and policy-makers around the world. This is particularly influential where rapid social development is...