This timely and fascinating book illustrates how applied geography can contribute in a multitude of ways to assist policy processes, evaluate public programs, enhance business decisions, and contribute to formulating solutions for community-level problems.

The growth of business service firms represents the latest stage in a continuing twentieth century process of technological and organizational restructuring of production and labour skills. It is associated with the rising information intensiveness of production and the development of an economy...

What is built and where it is built is largely determined by the activities and perceptions of global investment capital. Comparatively limited work has been undertaken into the property markets of regional cities as well as into the process of building obsolescence, refurbishment and...

This book provides one of the first interdisciplinary reviews of the relationship between services, globalisation and trade liberalisation as we enter the twenty-first century. Written by academics and policymakers, it contains a detailed analysis of the characteristics of service trade and of...

Service Industries in the Global Economy is a comparative international reference collection which identifies and reprints the most important articles on services and the service economy published by geographers, economists and sociologists. The focus is on the growth and evolution of service...

Service outsourcing is a well-known process that has been occurring since the early years of the 20th century and should be conceptualised as a standard procurement event. The distinction between service outsourcing and service offshoring is perhaps misleading as it confuses geography with the...