The Elgar Companion To Valleys

Author : Luis LM Aguiar
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789906962
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Elgar Companion to Valleys written by Luis LM Aguiar and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2023-11-03 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique Companion showcases the importance of valleys and their socio-economic, physical and cultural landscapes across three continents. Expert scholars in the field offer a broad range of disciplinary perspectives on the topic, discussing key historical and contemporary issues governing and transforming valleys.

Author : Harald Bathelt
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782548521
Total Pages : 840 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Elgar Companion to Innovation and Knowledge Creation written by Harald Bathelt and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique Companion provides a comprehensive overview and critical evaluation of existing conceptualizations and new developments in innovation research. It draws on multiple perspectives of innovation, knowledge and creativity from economics, geography, history, management, political science and sociology. The Companion brings together leading scholars to reflect upon innovation as a concept (Part I), innovation and institutions (Part II), innovation and creativity (Part III), innovation, networking and communities (Part IV), innovation in permanent spatial settings (Part V), innovation in temporary, virtual and open settings (Part VI), innovation, entrepreneurship and market making (Part VII), and the governance and management of innovation (Part VIII).

Author : Fausto O. Sarmiento
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178643010X
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Elgar Companion to Geography, Transdisciplinarity and Sustainability written by Fausto O. Sarmiento and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-29 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With contributions from top geographers, this Companion frames sustainability as exemplar of transdisciplinary science (critical geography) while improving future scenarios, debating perspectives between rich North/poor South, modern urban/backwards rural, and everything in between. The Companion has five sections that carry the reader from foundational considerations to integrative trends, to resources use and accommodation, to examples highlighting non-traditional pathways, to a postscript about cooperation of the industrialized Earth and a prognosis of the road ahead for the new geographies of sustainability.

Author : Daphne R. Raban
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1802203966
Total Pages : 579 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Elgar Companion to Information Economics written by Daphne R. Raban and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-14 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Elgar Companion to Information Economics dexterously navigates this interdisciplinary field of research which celebrates the crucial contribution of information to decision making, market dynamics, and economic well-being. Offering a wealth of conceptual analysis, this erudite Companion embarks on an intellectual journey exploring the fundamentals of information economics. This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.

Author : Alex Opoku
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1035300036
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Elgar Companion to the Built Environment and the Sustainable Development Goals written by Alex Opoku and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2024-02-12 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the link between Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the built environment, this erudite Companion provides a comprehensive overview and critical examination of key topics and complex research issues. Structured around the 5Ps of the SDGs - people, planet, prosperity, peace, and partnerships - the Companion suggests potential routes for the future direction of research within this multidisciplinary field of study.

Author : Michael Reksulak
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849806039
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Elgar Companion to Public Choice written by Michael Reksulak and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This is a comprehensive set of essays on myriad facets of public choice by many of the leading contributors in the field. The coverage is excellent and the essays are terrific. I highly recommend this book for researchers and students.' – Todd Sandler, University of Texas at Dallas, US The Elgar Companion to Public Choice, Second Edition brings together leading scholars in the field of political economy to introduce readers to the latest research in public choice. The Companion lays out a comprehensive history of the field and, in five additional parts, it explores public choice contributions to the study of the origins of the state, the organization of political activity, the analysis of decision-making in non-market institutions, the examination of tribal governance, and to modeling and predicting the behavior of international organizations and transnational terrorism. With broad and up-to-date coverage, this second edition will appeal to politicians and policymakers, academics and researchers in public and social choice and political science as well as graduate students in economics, political science and public administration.

Author : Sherman Folland
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178536071X
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elgar Companion to Social Capital and Health written by Sherman Folland and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2018-08-31 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sherman Folland and Eric Nauenberg present the cutting edge of research covering the ever-expanding social capital field. With excellent contributions from leading academics, the Elgar Companion to Social Capital and Health offers a developed examination of new research across sociology, epidemiology, economics, psychology, and political science.

Author : Jürgen G. Backhaus
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781845425500
Total Pages : 792 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Elgar Companion to Law and Economics written by Jürgen G. Backhaus and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaim for the first edition: Backhaus s book is a good companion. Pablo Salvador Coderch, Indret A most valuable collection of papers serving to provide the reader both with an overview of some key areas in law and economics and with a biographical introduction to the work of some important, if also neglected, sources of scholarship in the discipline. Anthony I. Ogus, CBE, University of Manchester, UK This thoroughly updated and revised edition of a popular and authoritative reference work introduces the reader to the major concepts and leading contributors in the field of law and economics. The Companion features accessible, informative and provocative entries on all the significant issues, and breaks new ground by bringing together widely dispersed yet theoretically congruent ideas. Following a comprehensive introduction by the editor, the renowned contributors look in detail at several critical areas including: fundamentals of the law and economics approach private law and economics public law and economics labour law and economics regulation, taxation and public enterprise dispute resolution different sources of the law economic analysis of a legal problem classical authors in law and economics. Students and scholars interested in a comprehensive and rigorous overview of the field of law and economics will find this volume to be a unique and welcome resource. The Companion will also have a broad appeal amongst industrial economists and historians of economic thought.

Author : Finger, Matthias
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1800375611
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Elgar Companion to Urban Infrastructure Governance written by Finger, Matthias and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2022-04-22 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive overview of the governance of urban infrastructures, this Companion combines illustrative cases with conceptual approaches to offer an innovative perspective on the governance of large urban infrastructure systems. Chapters examine the challenges facing urban infrastructure systems, including financial, economic, technological, social, ecological, jurisdictional and demand.

Author : Rishi Gulati
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1803924543
Total Pages : 605 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Elgar Companion to UNCITRAL written by Rishi Gulati and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2023-11-03 with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As one of the most important international organisations in the sphere of international trade law, UNCITRAL aims to help develop and promote uniform private law internationally. This comprehensive Companion delineates the range of issues considered at UNCITRAL, as well as assessing the potential for future work and reforms.