Bücher der Reihe Routledge Studies in Human Geography

Offers an account of the relationship between innovation, design, corporate competitiveness and place. This book explores design economies through an analysis of corporate strategies, the relationship between product and designer, copying and imitation including nefarious learning, design and competitiveness, and design-centred regional policies.

Presents an analysis of the role of cities in low carbon socio-technical transitions. This book combines insights from the fields of urban studies and technological transitions to examine how, why, and with what implications cities bring about low carbon transitions.

New Economic Spaces in Asian Cities offers a vivid contribution to our understanding of the ongoing transformation of Asiäs urban system, including the critical intersections of global and local-regional dynamics in processes of new industry formation and the relayering of space in the Asian metropolis. The synthesis of empirical profiles, normative insights, and theoretical reference points enhances the book¿s interest for scholars and students in such fields of Asian studies, urban and cultural studies, and urban and economic geography, as well as for and policy specialists and urban/community planners.

Systems of innovation that are conducted within national borders can preserve inefficient solutions and prevent development. This has led to a feeling that transnational learning strategies are more and more desirable.This book lays out a set of methods which can further enhance the experience of transnational learning, starting from the sociological ideas promoted by Charles Sabel of learning through monitoring, and by Marie Laure Djelic and others of the ¿translation¿ of experiences between different countries. Case studies and examples are collected from three fields: industrial development, tourism and local government.

This book brings together contributions from the natural and social sciences to examine the social and environmental dimensions of human health. Ecologies and Politics of Health has explicit makes substantive contributions to research and policy within these fields by addressing three key themes: the socio-political dimensions of human health; the ecological dimensions of health and vulnerability; and the intersections between the social and ecological dimensions of health.