The regional structure and regional policy of Japan
Industry ; Japan ; Population ; Regional policy ; Spatial organization ; Urban system
The purpose of this book aims to analyze the regional structure of population and industry of Japan, and the regional policies of Japan historically. The AA. analyzed them historically and showed the results plainly. - (KA)
Airline services and airport provision in Northern Ireland, 1983-93: network patterns, policies and trends
The aim of this paper is to trace the effects of the Civil Aviation Authority policies of air transport liberalisation on Northern Ireland's air services.
Trading blocs or trading blows? The macroeconomic geography of US and Japanese trade policies
Comparative study ; Economic environment ; Economic theory ; International trade ; Japan ; State control ; Trade policy ; United States
Us and Japanese trade policies are examined from an institutional perspective. An attempt is made to bridge international and domestic politics by positioning state institutions at the center of analysis. The institutional framework is situated
Flood control failures in a Third World city : Benin City, Nigeria - Some environmental factors and policy issues
Applied hydrology ; Catastrophe ; Developing countries ; Environment ; Flood ; Flood control ; Land use ; Natural hazards ; Nigeria ; Urban environment ; Urban policy
The aim of this study is to examine some of the environmental factors and policy issues responsible for flood control failures in Benin city, a typical Third World city. First, it highlights some of the obvious errors of omission and/or commission
as well as identifies those critical environmental factors and the direction for policy reorientation in the mitigation of the flooding problems. Second, it provides a new framework that includes conservation principles in flood control packages for Third
Environmental policy : the quest for sustainable development
of transboundary and global environmental impacts. Then, the A. examines the challenge posed by sustainable development to sovereignty and the market and the importance of equity in the development of policy.
Small town growth and development policy in Pakistan
This study examines the process of small town development and growth in Pakistan. The towns located in the agriculturally developed areas have better opportunities for development than the others. Although government economic development policies
Bristol ; Consumption ; Cultural studies ; Local policy ; Social change ; Social class ; United Kingdom ; Urban policy
The A. looks at the broader context within which urban cultural strategies have emerged, looking at changes in national state policies towards the arts, changes in patterns of cultural consumption, local opposition to central government
Economic policy ; Investment ; Land market ; Land value ; Land;Real estate ; Mexico ; Real estate market ; Real estate speculation ; State control
The structure of the land market in Mexico for the period 1988-94 is studied. The immediate policies of Salinas, especially the control of inflation, brought about a return to the favourable conditions of real-estate investment that had existed
throughout most of the 1970s. But more recent policies and particularly those of economic liberalization may not bode quite so well for those wishing to place a large part of their investment portfolios in real estate.
Germany ; Migration ; Model ; Single European Market ; Urban development ; Urban planning ; Urban policy ; Urban region ; Urban settlement ; Urban structure
the individual specialist policies towards a uniform urban-development model. Unlike in the past, the objective can no longer be gradual adaptation of the individual policies, but must instead be rethinking in all the policy fields relevant to regional planning
Foreign policy ; Geopolitics ; International relations ; Political geography ; Power ; Sphere of influence ; United States
Analysis of the travels of U.S. Secretaries of State from 1866 to 1990 : destinations, time spent abroad, reasons for travel. The expanding world of the Secretaries reflects U.S. foreign policy issues and the broadened interests of the U.S
Developing countries ; Economic development ; Economic policy ; Industrialization ; Qatar ; Regional economy
The purpose of this paper is to assess Qatar's industrialization efforts to date and examine some of the key challenges confronting the country's policy makers. Qatar's experiences provide valuable lessons for other small states as they undertake