Einführung -- Die Genese der Metropolregion in Deutschland, Empirie -- Die theoretisch – konzeptionelle Fundierung der Metropolregion – aktueller Stand der Forschung -- Erweiterung der Funktionentheorie der Metropolregion: Das Indikatorenmodell (Phänomene der Metropolregion) --...

This book explores new frontiers in the research of economic growth and industrial reconstruction, analyzing economic growth and transitions in industrial structure in East Asia with a variety of data. First, the effects of demographic change on trade openness is analyzed empirically using the...

In Zeiten der Megatrends „Globalisierung“ und „Demografischer Wandel“ stehen neben Unternehmen auch Regionen zur Erreichung ihrer Wachstumsziele im Wettbewerb um wertvolle Ressourcen. Um die Attraktivität des Standortes zu erhöhen und somit Anreize für Unternehmen, (hochqualifizierte)...

Metropolitan growth has been dramatic in the past several decades, and today metropolitan regions are recognized as the main driving forces in national growth and development as well as in national and global innovation processes. The purpose of this book is to contribute to a better...

1 Food Security and Collaborative Advantage: Scoping the scene (Kiminami, Lily) -- Part I Food Security from the Asian Perspective -- 2 Defining Japan's Food Security in East Asia: From the perspectives of the distribution revolution, environmental degradation, and international cooperation...

Simon Kempf has developed hedonic (quality-adjusted) office rent indices for German metropolitan areas. His study explores new territory as it constructs, for the first time, such indices for Germany. The author thereby has taken into account the different qualities of the underlying lease...

This book presents a multiregional input-output model for the metropolitan area of Southern California, which helps to estimate the economic impact of simulated terrorist attacks on seaports, malls etc. as well as of natural disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis. The authors also analyze...

Basic Situation of Carrying Capacity of Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei Province and Development Countermeasures -- Studies on Population Carrying Capacity of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei -- Studies on Land Carrying Capacity of Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei Province -- Studies on Carrying Capacity of...