Das Flughafen-Umland. Eine wirtschaftsgeographische Untersuchung an ausgewählten Beispielen im westlichen Europa The surroundings of air-ports. An economic-geographical study on selected examples of Western Europe
Regional and local economic policies and technology.
on technology and the geographic environment, regional economic strategies and the investigation of local initiatives form the three perspectives in this book. - (AGD)
A number of case studies on regional and local economic policies and technology from the Federal Republic of Germany and the Netherlands original presented at a seminar on applied economic geography in Aachen (1988). Recent theoretical view points
Infrastructure comprises only the material-technical basis for socio-economic activities. Possibilities of geographical studying social infrastructures are outlined and tendences to from a geography of infrastructure as an independent discipline
Geography and reforms of administrative areas in Hungary in Geographical essays in Hungary.
The geographic division of public administration is primarily connected with the power and policy of the state concerned. In Hungary the development of the theory of economic regionalization was fundamentally determined by the Soviet school. (DLO).
Consumer surplus in the theory and practice of geographicaleconomics
Peut-on estimer le bien-être à partir du surplus des consommateurs? L'A. essaie de justifier cette incursion économique faite par les géographes. Validation du concept en planification.
The author shows that developments in the economic conditions of the Dutch society i.e. the shift in employment from secondary to tertiary and quaternary sections of economic life, has attracted the attention of human geographers in this country. He
concludes that there has been little empirical research by universital geographers. Much of the empirical studies in this field comes from geographers in governmental or public service. (AGD).
A Hajdusagi Agraripari Egyesülés gazdasagfoldrajzi jellemzése. (An economicgeographical description of the Hajdusag Agrarian-Industrial Complex)
In the paper the three-and-a-half years'activity of the agrarian-industrial complex (a special kind of economic organization) is investigated in detail. The sphere of activities developed and coordinated jointly: cereal-meat production complex
American school ; British school ; Economic geography ; Economic growth ; Economies of scale ; Geographical thought ; Location ; Model ; Spatial economy
This Handbook illustrates the significance of thinking the ’economy’ and the ‘economic’ geographically, largely within the Western traditions of the Anglo-American world. Comprising 25 specially commissioned chapters by 30 authors based in the UK
and the USA, it is organized in eight sections. The first deals with location models and quantitative economic geography, and is followed by two sections on political economies of space. The remaining five sections cover: political economies of scale
; political economies of nature; uneven development (geographies of economic growth and decline); geographies of economic spectacle, and rethinking the economic. Each chapter is supported by a bibliography. - (HC)
The economic geography of South Africa : international parallels and local difference
Geographical renaissance at the dawn of the Millennium
Economic geography ; Enterprise ; Local development ; Local economy ; Research ; South Africa ; Uneven development
This paper provides a review of the state of the art research produced by South Africa's small pool of economicgeographers. The focus is particularly on current debates and research in local economic geography which has been produced in the last
Economic space ; Economic system ; Geographical space ; International economy ; Spatial differentiation ; Technology ; World ; World economic order ; World market
A world in a grain of sand: towards a reconceptualisation of geographical scale
Australia ; Community ; Economic restructuring ; Policy ; Scale ; Social change ; Social group ; Societal relations
This paper argues that inadequate conceptualisations of geographical scale restrict the relevance of much research to the agenda of an applied people's geography. A framework which conceptualises geographical scale as dialectically and internally
In terms of personalities, problems, concepts and techniques, geography and prehistory have a long record of gainful and mutual beneficial cooperation. Geographers have demonstrated that by applying geographical concepts and techniques, new insight
can be gained into prehistoric spatial organisation. This article further emphasises the importance of geography in the study of social and economic history of man is bound to grow. - (PLK)
A foldrajzi kornyezetkutatas idoszerü elvi kérdései és kartografiai modszerei. (Current theoretical problems and cartographic methods of geographical environmental research)
The geographical environment of society is viewed as an intricate system of four major subsystems. New geographical disciplines have evolved to analyse the environmental factors, landscape types, economic district types and the settlement
Critical reviews of geographical perspectives on business organization of production: towards a network approach
Capitalism ; Economic geography ; Epistemology ; Flexible accumulation ; Industrial organization ; Network ; Post-Fordism ; Production system ; Regulation theory
The article aims to present three recent theoretical perspectives in economic geography: the post-Fordist flexible specialization thesis; the regulationist perspective; network analysis. The basic argument is that, despite decades of geographical
studies of industrial location and economic activities, there is much more still to be understood about the geography of business organizations and production systems.
The changing map of American poverty in an era of economic restructuring and political realignment
Economic restructuring ; Economic situation ; Living standard ; Poverty ; Regional disparities ; Spatial structure ; United States of America ; Welfare state
The A. argues that conservative theory falters when the spatial dynamics of poverty is considered in the United States. The changing map of American poverty reflects the geographic contours of recent transformations in the American political economy
. Five brief case studies demonstrate that poverty is geographically produced, as alterations in the market and the state are differentially translated into the social order of locales to generate distinctive prospects for affluence and impoverishment.
Context in economic geography: the relevance of pragmatism
Economic geography ; Post-modernism ; Research ; Social practice ; Social relations
There has been a growing interest in types of contextual approach in recent economic geography. The first contextual theme emphasizes that social processes are spatial and made up of specific geographical contexts. The influence of postmodernist
and poststructuralist ideas in economic geography is another usage of contextualism. Sraffian and neoinstitutionalist economic geographies highlight some interesting research programmes, which should be supplemented by a recourse to the pragmatist tradition.