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The Western European Economy: A Geography of Post-war Development

Business & Money

Williams, Allan M.

Economics

Taylor & Francis Books Ltd

This book, originally published in 1987, presents a broad overview of the spatial organization of the European economy, providing a valuable synthesis of recently published material by geographers and other social scientists. A major theme is the interdependence of economic development at various scales. The three main sections look at international and European economic context; detailed changes in particular sectors; specific types if regional economic formations. Case studies are used and reference made to historical processes.

Tourism and Innovation (Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility)

Tourism is often described as an industry with high growth rates, and it is subject to radical change in how it is produced and consumed. However, there is still a relatively poor understanding of how such changes are brought about – that is, through innovation. This book is the first to provide a comprehensive review of innovation in tourism, while also considering how tourism itself contributes to innovative local, regional and national development strategies.   This timely book places tourism innovation in the context of current academic and policy concerns relating to knowledge, competition, and the management of change. A substantial introductory chapter provides an overview of what makes innovation in tourism both distinctive from, and similar to innovation in other economic sectors. This is followed by three general scene setting chapters which explore how competition and the search for competitiveness drive tourism innovation, how knowledge transfers and knowledge creation lead the process, and how institutions shape innovation. These provide a coherent theoretical framework for understanding the roles of different agencies in innovation, ranging from the state, to the firm, to the consumer. The next four chapters analyze innovation at different scales. Two chapters review the territorial dimensions of innovation through the fresh perspectives of the national and regional innovation systems, followed by reviews of the determinants of innovation in the firm, and the contested and complex role of entrepreneurship. The final chapter summarises the importance of understanding tourism innovation.  This is a groundbreaking volume which provides an accessible introduction to a key but neglected topic. It provides a readable account of the multidisciplinary research on innovation and relates the emerging theoretical framework to tourism. A clear conceptual framework is complemented by fifty boxes which provide a range of illustrative international case studies.  This book will be a useful guide for researchers and students of tourism studies, management and business and geography.

Hall, C. Michael

Routledge

Migration, Risk and Uncertainty (Routledge Studies in Human Geography)

Migration is one of the driving forces of economic and social change in the modern world. It is both informed by risk and a generator of risk, whether for individuals, households, communities or societies. Although the relationship between migration and risk is widely acknowledged, it has long been neglected in academic research, with a few exceptions such as household diversification strategies. Instead, risk is assumed to be implicit in economic or social models, rather than being explicitly theorised or analysed. This book represents the first major review of these key relationships. It draws on a wide range of theories - from economics, psychology, sociology, anthropology and geography - and an equally broad range of empirical material, to provide a highly original overview.

Politics & Social Sciences

Baláž, Vladimír

Social Sciences

Industries

Addresses the significant changes in the economic, social and political structures of the UK. This edition analyzes these changes and includes two new chapters which place the Thatcherite and post-Thatcherite periods more fully into their historical and spatial contexts.

Divided Britain

Hudson, Ray

wiley

The issues that tourism raises are of critical importance throughout the world: this book provides a geographical perspective upon them. The authors focus on both the production and consumption of tourism, and show that it is this interrelationship which holds the key to understanding the ways in which tourism shapes, and reshapes, human and physical environments. They analyze the key features of the tourism and leisure industries, and place them in the context of changing social, political and economic structures and behaviour. The argument is illustrated throughout by case studies, drawn from a wide range of countries, including both the developed and developing economies.

Critical Issues in Tourism: A Geographical Perspective (Ibg Studies in Geography)

Shaw, Gareth

Blackwell Pub.

As interest in environmental sustainability grows, this successful text has been fully revised and updated in order to show how tourism is currently reshaping human and physical environments around the world.

Critical Issues in Tourism: A Geographical Perspective

Wiley/Blackwell

As interest in environmental sustainability grows, this successful text has been fully revised and updated in order to show how tourism is currently reshaping human and physical environments around the world.

Tourism and Tourism Spaces

This is a critical introduction to the relations between tourism, tourists, and tourism spaces. It fuses economic and cultural perspectives to explain how tourism is dependent on place and space, while at the same time as defining those places and spaces. Examining different levels of scale - from local to global - Tourism and Tourism Spaces is informed by the discussion of three key processes: - production and consumption of tourist spaces - consumption and commodification of tourist experiences - construction and reconstruction of tourist spaces Each chapter engages with different theoretical perspectives; is illustrated with comparative examples and case studies; uses tables, boxes and figures throughout; and concludes with a summary. An integrated and systematic review of a range of theoretical positions - that integrates economic and cultural - Tourism and Tourism Spaces will be a key resource for students of geography, sociology, management studies, hospitality studies, and leisure studies.

Sage Publications Ltd.

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The Western European Economy: A Geography of Post-war Development

The Western European Economy: A Geography of Post-war Development

Tourism and Innovation (Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility)

Migration, Risk and Uncertainty (Routledge Studies in Human Geography)

Tourism and Innovation (Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility)

Divided Britain

Critical Issues in Tourism: A Geographical Perspective (Ibg Studies in Geography)

Critical Issues in Tourism: A Geographical Perspective

Critical Issues in Tourism: A Geographical Perspective

Tourism and Tourism Spaces