Sören Scholvin is a research fellow at the institute of Economic and Cultural Geography, University of Hannover, and an associate researcher at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies. His research interests are world cities and global value chains in the Global South, regional development in sub-Saharan Africa and South America, and the energy policy of emerging economies. From 2015 to 2018, he worked on a research project on « Gateway Cities and their Hinterlands » financed by the German Research Foundations.
Anthony Black is Professor of Economics, University of Cape Town. He currently directs the research unit « Policy Research in International Services and Manufacturing ». Anthony has published widely in the fields of industrial policy, the automotive industry, regional integration, foreign direct investment and also employment. He has also acted as an advisor and consultat to a number of African governments as well as international organisations, including the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation. His latest book is the edited volume
Towards Employment-Intensive Growth in South Africa.
Javier Revilla Diez is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Cologne, and an associate researcher at the Global South Study Center, University of Cologne. His research interests are in global production networks, regional transformation processes and the impact of natural risks on firms, people and regions in East and South East Asia as well as sub-Saharan Africa. Since 2018, Javier has contributed to the research initiative « Future Rural Africa », wherein he concetrate on the desired and undesired socio-economic, effects of economic growth corridors in Namibia and Tanzania.
Ivan Turok is executive director at the Human Sciences Research Council and chairman of the City Planning Commission for Durban. He is also editor-in-chief of the journal Regional Studies and an honorary professor at the University of Glasgow. Ivan »s research covers various aspects of city and regional economic development, labour markets and urban transformation. His latest jointly edited book is
Transitions in Regional Economic Development.
5 Ebooks par Javier Revilla Diez
Sören Scholvin & Anthony Black: Value Chains in Sub-Saharan Africa
Development largely depends on how given places participate in global economic processes.The contributions to this book address various features of the integration of sub-Saharan Africa into the worl …
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€96.29
Javier Revilla Diez & Christine Tamasy: Regional Resilience, Economy and Society
There has been a great deal of restructuring of rural places and communities under globalisation, highlighting the interaction of local and global actors to produce new hybrid socio-economic relation …
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€69.39
Javier Revilla Diez & Christine Tamasy: Regional Resilience, Economy and Society
There has been a great deal of restructuring of rural places and communities under globalisation, highlighting the interaction of local and global actors to produce new hybrid socio-economic relation …
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€69.53
Javier Revilla Diez & Ludwig Schatzl: Technological Change and Regional Development in Europe
This book presents the findings of the extensive research progrannne funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Council) and entitled ‘Technological Change and Regional Developmen …
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€114.58
Javier Revilla Diez & Manfred M. Fischer: Metropolitan Innovation Systems
This book presents the fmdings of a comparative study of three European metropolitan regions: Vienna, Barcelona and Stockholm. The heart of the work consists of empirical studies carefully designed a …
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€114.90