Research opinion on informatization is divided between two opposite poles—that it promotes or inhibits the spillover of regional economies. These conflicting viewpoints are called “the paradoxical geographies of the digital economy”. Information-based investment and diffusion of...

Published just over a century ago, <i>Farmers of Forty Centuries or Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan</i>, served to document the viability and productivity of traditional agricultural systems that relied on composting, and complete recycling of all types of natural waste materials, as a...

The seasonal imbalances and price premiums of natural gas imports (NGIs) seriously affect the sustainability of these imports in major Northeast Asian countries, namely, China, Japan, and South Korea. Research on NGI seasonality might provide new insights that may help solve these issues....

Es werden 24 der bedeutendsten Agrarländer der Erde portraitiert, indem unter anderem die wirtschaftlichen, klimatischen und geographischen Bedingungen dargestellt werden. Weitere Themen bilden die Agrarstruktur, die Infrastruktur und die Situation in Handel und Verarbeitung. Ebenso werden die...