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Debate about the causes and consequences of regional deforestation in India has paved the way for calls to action and intervention, and state-sponsored afforestation has led to government claims of progress against land degradation. Census statistics from the arid state of Rajasthan show a tide of forests reclaiming the land. These trends obscure crucial realities that continue to undermine the...
It has been suggested that regulatory analysis and regulation theory provide appropriate foundations for the analysis of the sustainability problematic. We accept these claims and in this paper provide an interrogation, founded in the literature on real regulation, of a judicial decision concerning the allocation of water resources to farm irrigation in Northland, Aoteroa/New Zealand. The fact...
Although Australia's settlement pattern is characterised by a high level of primacy, there is evidence of deconcentration and counterurbanisation as internal migrants move to attractive coastal regions, often putting a strain on the physical environment and social infrastructure of such regions. Some of the nation's most rapid population growth rates have been recorded on the North Coast of New South...
The paper discusses issues of neo-industrialisation and corporate restructuring in peripheral regions, taking into account the formation of a new industrial space in northern Greece. The main argument is that the inheritance of peripherality promotes neo-Taylorist corporate strategies in less favoured regions, involving flexible and fragmented labour markets, innovation linked to fixed capital and...
The paper examines the recent emergence and rapid development of one of the world's most active, regionally based, migrant-labour systems. Explanation is sought through two major theoretical perspectives: the neo-classical economics view of labour flows responding to international differences in labour market conditions, and the world systems view of migration as an integral part of the global restructuring...
The globalization of the world economy and the concomitant increasing complexity of the global financial system has resulted in a large number of relatively small places functioning as offshore financial centers (OFCs). OFCs provide an alternative avenue for capital to be invested (literally) in offshore markets. This paper argues that these small places have to strive hard to link in to the global...
Techniques of production are measured in the structural fabricated metals industry across 35 states of the U.S. between 1964 and 1992. Contrary to life-cycle models and equilibrium-based theories of technology diffusion and competition, production coefficients vary markedly between regions and these differences show little sign of diminishing over time. Further investigation reveals that states...
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