This paper aims to map out various research and policy challenges inherent in the need to cope with climate change. Therefore, four critical domains are identified which will most likely be seriously affected by climate change. Next, both the global/general and the regional/specific dimensions...

In many countries, rural areas have shown a new spatial-economic dynamics that has meant a contrast with the traditional urban-rural dichotomy. In particular, the need to use economicecological sustainability as a guiding principle for new rural development is a prominent feature. But how will...

Significant spatial and structural changes have occurred in the business sector of intermediatesized cities in South Africa since the mid-1990s. These changes can largely be ascribed to responses of entrepreneurs, from both formal and informal sectors, to the profound changes that have taken...

Although it is agreed that the dual development of monetary integration and territorial enlargement are likely to generate profound effects on European spatial structure, in both West and East, much uncertainty centres around the question of what changes will be brought about. This book furthers...

This paper employs Vector Autoregression (VAR) models to measure the impact of monetary policy shocks on regional output in Indonesia. Having incorporated a possible structural break following the aftermath of the 1997-98 Asian Crisis, the impulse response functions derived from the estimated...

Climate change is a serious concern worldwide. Policy research on climate change in the past decades has largely focused on applied modelling exercises. However, the implications of specific policy strategies such as the clean development mechanism (CDM) for global and regional economic and...

Chapter 1. Introduction to “The Creative Class Revisited: New Analytical Advances” -- Chapter 2. Sustained Economic Growth and Physical Capital Taxation in a Creative Region -- Chapter 3. Do Existing Theories Still Hold for the Creative Labor Market? -- Chapter 4. The Creative Class Jobs...