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The global financial crisis and housing : a new policy paradigm
Wachter, Susan M. (ed.); Cho, Man (ed.);  … - 2014
This innovative book analyses the role played by real estate markets in global financial stability and examines the fragile link between the two. Through what transmission channels do housing market cycles influence broader economic systems? How has the Global Financial Crisis shifted our view...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850765
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Cities and partnerships for sustainable urban development
Kresl, Peter Karl (ed.) - 2015
introduction to some theory, this book provides broad coverage of these aspects and their manifestations in Asia, Africa, Europe …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850864
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Sustainable urban water environment : climate, pollution and adaptation
Goonetilleke, Ashantha; Yigitcanlar, Tan; Ayoko, Godwin A. - 2014
This multi-disciplinary book provides practical solutions for safeguarding the sustainability of the urban water environment. Firstly, the importance of the urban water environment is highlighted and the major problems urban water bodies face and strategies to safeguard the water environment are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851950
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Modern cost-benefit analysis of hydropower conflicts
Kriström, Bengt (ed.); Johansson, Per-Olov (ed.) - 2011
specific cases and issues from North America and Europe. The book closes with a more general look at the topic. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850701
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Incentives, regulations and plans : the role of states and nation-states in smart growth planning
Knaap, Gerrit-Jan (contributor) - 2007
This unique book allows readers to compare analyses of how North American states and European nation-states use incentives, regulations or plans to approach a core set of universal land use issues such as: containing sprawl, mixed use development, transit oriented development, affordable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420036
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European cities and global competitiveness : strategies for improving performance
Kresl, Peter Karl (ed.); Ietri, Daniele (ed.) - 2012
The volume begins with an Introduction, followed by a set of three papers in Part Two examining European urban competitiveness from the standpoints of measurement and policy. This section also provides a case study of the cities of one country - Italy - from which the reader can gain an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851395
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Handbook on place branding and marketing
Campelo, Adriana (contributor) - 2017
Contents: Section 1: Place branding: strategies and perspectives -- 1. The state of art: from country-of-origin to strategies for economic development / Adriana Campelo -- 2. Place branding in strategic spatial planning: challenges and opportunities of branding regions / Eduardo Oliveira and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419935
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Handbook on the theory and practice of program evaluation
Link, Albert N. (ed.); Vonortas, Nicholas S. (ed.) - 2013
'The economic crisis has simultaneously placed a strong emphasis on the role of R&D as an engine of economic growth and a demand that limited public resources are demonstrated to have had the maximum possible impact. Rigorous evaluation is the key to meeting these needs. This Handbook brings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851919
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Public goods, redistribution and rent seeking
Tullock, Gordon - 2005
1. Some difficulties in the existing theory of externalities -- 2. Coase and all that -- 3. More on why government … look at how governments and externalities are linked. Economists frequently justify government as dealing with … externalities, defined as benefits or costs that are generated as the result of an economic activity, but that do not accrue …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420087
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The dynamics of knowledge externalities : localized technological change in Italy
Antonelli, Cristiano - 2011
This book elaborates a new dependent and localized growth theory based upon knowledge externalities by making two … knowledge externalities that consist in the access to localized external knowledge, at costs that are below equilibrium levels …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851040