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...

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...

1 Introduction -- 2 Institutional Difference in European Metropolitan Commercial Real Estate Markets -- 3 Financial Markets in London Metropolitan Commercial Real Estate -- 4 Building Activities in Barcelona and Madrid Metropolitan Areas -- 5 Land Policy and Vacancies in the Metropolitan...

This book focuses on the questions of how territorial differences in productivity levels and unemployment rates arise in the first place and why territorial differences in labor market performance persist over time. Unemployment divergence and unemployment club convergence have been touched on...

This contributed volume studies and explains the effect that agglomeration exerts on a firm’s innovation and performance. It presents new cases as well as new topics within the agglomeration phenomenon, exploring also their role under the Great Recession. Beyond the analysis of regions or...

On Line Citizenship discusses the evolutionary trends of cities in terms of e-government in the present and future technological scenario. The focus is on the transformation of the relationships between city administrations and citizens due to Information and Communication Technology. On a broad...

Interpretative Models of Urban Intervention -- Impact of the General Model on Specific Case Studies -- Participation and the Socio-Political Foundations of the Management of Urban Redevelopments -- Case Studies -- Conclusion

This book explains the relationships between equality and efficiency, as well as between government and market, in urban-rural and regional development by providing theoretical frameworks and empirical evidence. Urban-rural development in China is understood from a regional perspective, while...