Was rare Rohstoffe mit unserem Wohlstand zu tun haben -- Rohstoffe, die über unsere Zukunft entscheiden -- Deutschland am Rohstofftropf -- Woher die Rohstoffe der Zukunft kommen -- Was getan werden muss.

This book provides the most comprehensive survey of mining activity and the principal challenges confronting the resources industry in the Asia-Pacific region today, and presents new theoretical and practical insights into the political and business risks faced by mining companies operating in...

Chapter 1: Destination ASEAN, Beyond 2015 -- Chapter 2: Factors Affecting Willingness of Foreign Tourists to Spend Money in Benefiting Local People -- Chapter 3: Destination Loyalty Model of Senior Foreign Tourists Visiting Bali Tourism Destination -- Chapter 4: Hedonic Shopping Motivation: Does...

The launch of the ASEAN Economic Community raises key issues: the deepening of regional trade and production sharing and the associated problem of exchange rate management. This volume questions the capacity of a shallow institution to deal with complex consequences on employment and...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Open Data: A Short History -- Chapter 3: Open Data in Southeast Asia -- Chapter 4: Opportunities and Challenges in Open Data -- Chapter 5: Conclusion and Outlook: Towards Economic Union, Urban Resilience, and Participatory Policy Making -- Appendix 1: Study...

This book takes a fresh look at pricing, product differentiation and the need for decommoditisation in market sectors where products and services are standardised and interchangeable. In the first chapters the book explains what commodities are, and puts them into a historical perspective to...

This book brings together leading experts to assess how and whether the Nazis were successful in fostering collaboration to secure the resources they required during World War II. These studies of the occupation regimes in Norway and Western Europe reveal that the Nazis developed highly...

Chapter 1: Long distance commuting in Australia -- Chapter 2: The socio-economic impacts of long distance commuting on people and communities -- Chapter 3: Analysing the spatial distribution of changing labour force dynamics in the Pilbara -- Chapter 4: Reshaping rural communities “at a...

This book rejects the idea that natural resource industries are doomed to slow growth. Rather, it examines the case of Norway to demonstrate that such industries can prove highly innovative and dynamic. Here, the case is compellingly made that a key empirical problem with the popular ‘resource...

This book examines the paradox that resource-rich countries often struggle to manage their resources in a way that will help their economies thrive. It looks at how a country's political regime and quality of governance can determine the degree to which it benefits - or suffers - from having...