The early days of tourism development had a naïve vision of tourism’s impacts on society in terms of economic, social, and environmental benefits. Time has passed, and we have learnt lessons regarding the success and failure of tourism development. Mass tourism development has pros and cons...

Chapter 1. Climate policies in China: Renewable energy introduction and National Emissions Trading Scheme -- Chapter 2. Introduction of Extended Producer Responsibility in China -- Chapter 3. Plastic Recycling Policy in China and the Waste Plastic Trade -- Chapter 4. Change of Industrial...

This book examines the development and role of small business clusters from a variety of disciplines--economics, marketing, management, and information systems. Unlike many issues that are hampered by ideological problems between disciplines, the book proves that there is an approach suggesting...

The role of innovations and clusters has increasingly dominated local and regional development policies in recent decades. This authoritative and accessible Handbook considers important aspects of high-tech clusters, analyses insightful cluster case studies, and provides a number of...

Most countries adopt policies in order to attract foreign multinationals, stimulate industrial clustering and to foster innovation. This book links these topical issues. It examines the activities of multinational enterprises, their contribution to cluster development, how they stimulate...

Over the past decade the 'cluster model' has been seized on as a tool for promoting competitiveness, innovation and growth on local, regional and national scales. However, despite its popularity there is much about it that is problematic, and in some respects the rush to employ 'cluster ideas'...