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Author : Walter Leimgruber,Walter Zsilincsar,Etienne Nel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Mountain life
ISBN : 3844009302
Author : Manfred Perlik
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317666219
Mountain regions are subject to a unique set of economic pressures: they act as collective enterprises which have to valorize rare resources, such as spectacular landscapes. While primarily rural in nature, they often border large cities, and the development of industries such as hydroelectric power and the rapid development of tourism can bring about sweeping socio-economic change and vast demographic alterations. The Spatial and Economic Transformation of Mountain Regions describes the socio-economic changes and spatial impacts of the last four decades, with the transformation of mountain areas held up as an example. Much of the real-world context draws on the Alps, spanning as they do the significant economies of France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, and Austria. Chapters address academic discourse on regional development in these mountain areas and suggest alternative approaches to the liberal-productivist societal model. This book will be essential reading for professionals, institutions, and NGOs searching for counter-models to the existing marketing approaches for peripheral areas. It will also be of interest to students of regional development, economic geography, environmental studies, and industrial economics.
Author : Ernst A. Brugger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 699 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Alps, Swiss (Switzerland)
ISBN : 3258033773
Schweizer Alpen.
Author : Walter Leimgruber,Chang-yi David Chang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030043933
This book provides an up-to-date account of the many processes shaping and transforming rural space in various parts of the world. The various case studies focus on the multi-functionality of the rural world and the driving forces behind it. The book demonstrates that rural areas are no longer simply characterized by an agricultural economy, and instead accommodate multiple complementary activities. It also touches upon two major changes that have taken place. The first is the process of rurbanization, which has led to the clear distinction between town and countryside becoming blurred: urban traits have penetrated rural areas, and rural traits have invaded towns. The second change is that rural areas are increasingly seen as multi-functional, providers not only of food and other natural resources but also locations for the generation of renewable energy (wind farms, solar farms, biogas) and regions for the preservation of biodiversity. These transformations have resulted in a new understanding and self-image of rural areas and their populations.
Author : Xin Zhang
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2000-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0521642892
In this book, Xin Zhang sheds light on the sources of China's modernization.
Author : Susan L. Slocum,Peter Wiltshier,John Basil Read IV
Publisher : CABI
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781789249033
Gateway communities that neighbour parks and protected areas are impacted by tourism, while facing unique circumstances related to protected area management. Economic dependency remains a serious challenge for these communities, especially in a climate of neoliberalism, top-down policy environments, and park closures related to environmental degradation or government budgets. The collection of works in this edited book provide bottom-up, informed, and nuanced approaches to tourism management using local experiences from gateway communities and protected areas management emerging from a decade of guidelines, rulemaking, and exclusive decision-making.
Author : Zanette T. Glørstad,Kjetil Loftsgarden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317001898
The Viking Age was a period of profound change in Scandinavia. As kingdoms were established, Christianity became the encompassing ideological and cosmological framework and towns were formed. This book examines a central backdrop to these changes: the economic transformation of West Scandinavia. With a focus on the development of intensive and organized use of woodlands and alpine regions and domestic raw materials, together with the increasing standardization of products intended for long-distance trade, the volume sheds light on the emergence of a strong interconnectedness between remote rural areas and central markets. Viking-Age Transformations explores the connection between legal and economic practice, as the rural economy and monetary system developed in conjunction with nascent state power and the legal system. Thematically, the book is organized into sections addressing the nature and extent of trade in both marginal and centralized areas; production and the social, legal and economic aspects of exploiting natural resources and distributing products; and the various markets and sites of trade and consumption. A theoretically informed and empirically grounded collection that reveals the manner in which relationships of production and consumption transformed Scandinavian society with their influence on the legal and fiscal division of the landscape, this volume will appeal to scholars of archaeology, the history of trade and Viking studies.
Author : Yansui Liu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811648359
This book attempts to introduce the theory of system science and engineering technology into the geographic research of urban-rural transformation, reveals the level-structure-function of urban-rural transformation, and promotes the scientific research on urban-rural transformation. Focusing on the systematic diagnosis of new-type urbanization, urban-rural land use, industrial structure transformation and public facilities allocation, this book explores the long-term mechanism, innovative model, and scientific way of urban-rural land optimal allocation and spatial reconstruction and develops urban-rural transformation geography. In terms of the contents, the book constructs the theory and method system of urban-rural transformation geography, analyzes the process, pattern, mechanism, and response of urban-rural transformation, reveals the evolution characteristics, types, and regional differences of urban-rural regional system, and finally puts forward the optimal decision-making of urban-rural transformation. This book not only provides references for graduate and researchers in geography, regional development, urban and rural planning, resource science, environmental science, human-earth system science, sustainability science, and other related fields but also guides the decision-making of planners and government officials.
Author : Holly Barcus,Roy Jones,Serge Schmitz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000547030
This book focuses on the transformation of rural places, peoples, and land endemic to the contemporary manifestations of globalization. Migration, global economic restructuring, and climate change are rapidly transforming rural places across the globe. Yet, global attention characteristically focuses on urban social and economic issues, neglecting the continued roles of rural people and places. Organized around the three core themes of demographic change, rural-urban partnerships and innovations, and landscape change, the case studies included in this volume represent both the Global North and Global South and underscore the complexity and multi-scalar nature of these contemporary challenges in rural development, planning, and sustainability. This book would be valuable supplementary reading for both students and professionals in the fields of rural land management and rural planning.
Author : Raghubir Chand,Walter Leimgruber
Publisher : Springer
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319326498
This book looks at the global importance of mountain systems, emphasizing their ecological and socio-economic role in light of climate change and globalization. With a special focus on the Himalayas, it also examines the Czech–German–Austrian mountain borderland, the Alps, the Andes, the highland regions of Malaysia, and the Arctic. The contributors, specialists in their fields, all use an integrative approach that develops and argues the concept of mountain regions as a global common good. Readers also discover that mountain systems and mountain communities are often marginalized and left behind by the process of globalization. Case studies throughout detail the effects of climate change and global warming on both nature and local/regional societies, such as declining water supplies, a shifting vegetation line, and other important issues facing not only mountains but also the vast regions depending on them. In addition, the comprehensive coverage offers authenticated viewpoints from some of the most eminent explorers of Tibet in the nineteenth century. More than 50 percent of the global human population draws benefits directly or indirectly from mountain resources and services. This book provides practitioners, researchers, students, and other interested readers with a compelling look at the global importance of this imposing, yet sensitive ecosystem.
Author : Peter Borrell,Patricia M. Borrell
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642597183
A major environmental concern is the increasing burden on all scales of photo-oxidants, acidifying substances and potential nutrients in the troposphere. These lead to episodes of summer smog, and appreciable damage to eco-systems both on land and at sea. Underlying the environmental effects is the complex scientific problem of linking the man-made and biological emissions to the myriad chemical reactions that transform the pollutants as they are transported to and deposited in the surroundings and also pristine areas remote from the sources. The project, the scientific results of which are described in this book, was set up to study the problem in an inter-disciplinary way by co-ordinating the work of more than 150 research groups in some 20 countries.
Author : Jeff Oliver
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816527873
Nordamerika - Kolonialzeit - Landschaft - Raumkonzepte - soziale Konstruktion.
Author : Monika Baumanova
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031146978
This book offers an interdisciplinary perspective on the precolonial to colonial transition in an urban context, by focusing on the changing distribution, character and role of public spaces and buildings. The volume focuses on three case study regions: East African coast, North-West Africa, and the Iberian Peninsula. The regions are selected to provide a novel perspective on the socio-spatial impact of colonialism on the public life of urban settlements, driven by different political forces, in different geographical contexts and time periods. The three study areas are also linked by sharing several features of urban lifestyle such as the role of trade and the influence of religion, Islam in particular. The intertwined influence of socio-spatial urban characteristics on public life is presented on a range of case studies selected from Africa and southern Europe. The approaches are rooted in archaeological thinking on the built environment as material culture and incorporate critical interpretation of ethnographies and historical accounts on both the precolonial and colonial eras. This volume is of interest to archaeologists and researchers working in urban history, anthropology, and heritage.
Author : Mohan Nair
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118134450
Strategic Business Transformation The seven deadly sins to overcome What can Gandhi, Mother Teresa and Nelson Mandela teach us about running businesses that face transformation in their markets. This book courageously offers that businesses that transform markets or respond to transformation know that they must transform themselves before they transform others. Great companies find a cause greater than themselves, organizes this cause into executable momentum and conquers the imagination of the market. Transforming your business requires a recipe powered by a cause not missions. Read and see how and why.
Author : Elmar R. Reiter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Dynamic meteorology
ISBN : UGA:32108009350292
