Regional Science in Developing Countries
Published on 24. March 1997
Book
Hardback
400 pages
978-0-333-62909-3 (ISBN)
Description
Developing countries are suffering from the multiple and overlapping problems of poverty, malnutrition, excessive population growth and also the increased environmental pollution due to rapid industrialization and urbanization, particularly in the existing urban centres. The migration from rural areas of agricultural population to urban areas is making this situation more problematic. The lack of established institutions leads to the failure of public policy no matter how efficiently it is formulated. The book discusses the major regional developmental problems in poor countries, covering economic, social and environmental problems. It deals with case-studies for a set of individual countries, and discusses their unique problems, investigating how the established methods of regional science can be used to solve some of these problems.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
tables, figures
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 143 mm
Weight
589 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-62909-3 (9780333629093)
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Manas Chatterji | Kaizong Yang
Regional Science in Developing Countries
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07/2016
Palgrave Macmillan
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Content
List of Tables and Figures - Foreword; M.McHugh - Notes on Contributors - Introduction; M.Chatterji - Urban Development Policies in the 1990s: A Summary of World Bank Urban Policy Paper and Research Update; M.A.Cohen & K.S.Lee - Importance of Regional Planning in Big Asian Countries; T.Fukuchi - Towards Sustainable Development: An Implementing Framework; M.Munasinghe - Urban Environmental Sustainability: Critical Issues and Policy Measures in a Third World Context; P.Nijkamp & H.Opschoor - Value Added in Agriculture as a Regional Development Strategy; L.J.Gibson & J.B.Nelson - Basic Processes of Regional Economic Development in China; Y.Kaizong - High Technology Parks in China; G.Chaolin - Commercial Central Place Structure in Beijing Metropolis; Y.Wuyang - Quality of Life and Regional Development in China; C.Jingke & H.Voogd - Comparative Analysis of China's Metropolitan Economies: An Input-Output Perspective; M.Sonis, J.M.Guo & G.J.D.Hewings - Regional Policy in Export-led Industrialisation: Korean Experience; S.W.Hong - The Pattern of Regional Competitiveness in Thailand; A.Puntasen & R.Riefler - Integrated Development of Small and Medium Towns in India; R.Ganguly - The Rurban Fringe: A Central Area between Region and City, The Case of Zangalore, India; H.Schenk - Urban and Regional Development in Bangladesh: Past Trends and Future Prospects; N.Islam -Linking Pollution and Macroeconomic Variables: An Indonesian Example; I.Azis - Urban Planning in the Modern Middle East; H.Amirahmadi - Planning Development Through Urbanisation in Nigeria; R.Taylor - Precolonial and Early Colonial Urbanisation in East Coast of Africa: The African-Asian Connection; R.A.Obudho & O.S.Ouma - A Gravity Model Reformulation of Trade and Conflict in Turkey; W.Isard, S.Saltzman & A.Yaman -Decentralised Development Scenarios in Latin America; S.Boisier - Regional Economics of the Mexican Environment; A.C.Renteria - Urbanisation in The Eastern Amazon; S.de Campos Silveira - North-South Issues: A Path to Global Solutions; M.Taniguchi - Regional Science and Developing Countries; M.Chatterji.