Overview
- Includes conceptual as well as practical examples of environmental issues and ethics in economic geography and economic development
- Presents a unique account on the Porter Cluster approach in practice
- Shows how to build an economic development cluster from the group up
- Challenges dominant debates concerning economic impact studies and the potential to redefine the context of these studies
Part of the book series: GeoJournal Library (GEJL, volume 86)
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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About this book
Enterprising World represents the culmination of several years of work by geographers, planners, and economists. The chapters represent the collective efforts of the International Geographical Union’s Commission on the Dynamics of Economic Spaces. This collection is the result of the 2005 annual meeting in Toledo, Ohio (USA). The chapters have been selected based on their contribution to the broader community of economic geographers and policymakers and to demonstrate the inherent interconnectedness of these themes (and at times the conceptual tension that exists between ethics, economics, and the environment) insofar as these important issues shape the contours and cleavages of contemporary regional development.
In particular, the chapters represent the diversity of perspectives on these issues. The authors provide insight into the workings of a variety of communities, regions, and nations as they seek to balance economic growth with the growing necessity to simultaneously promote ethical and sustainable regional development. As such, this book is truly international in both scale and scope and provides the reader with a survey of emerging and established concepts, theories, and conflicts in economic geography.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Enterprising Worlds
Book Subtitle: A Geographic Perspective on Economics, Environments & Ethics
Editors: Jay D. Gatrell, Neil Reid
Series Title: GeoJournal Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-5226-X
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature B.V. 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-5225-5Published: 02 January 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7314-3Published: 30 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-5226-2Published: 16 May 2007
Series ISSN: 0924-5499
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0072
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 276
Topics: Economic Geography, Economic Growth, Human Geography, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning