The continued emphasis on innovation in urban and clustered settings has led many
geographers to conceive peripheries as laggard and non-innovative. After reconstructing …

The COVID-19 pandemic completely transformed the mobility of cities. The restrictions on
movement led to “empty cities” throughout the world, with some environmental effects in …

The creation of employment opportunities is a key factor to economic growth, but when
pursuing sustainable development, work arrangements must also be fair and stable. In …

This book investigates the relationship between mining, mine closure and housing policy in
post-apartheid South Africa, using concepts from new institutional economics and …

Economic diversification is seen as imperative for mining regions to achieve an
economically sustainable form of development. Yet, existing knowledge is largely drawn …

Chile, 11th of September of 1973. After decades of meetings, lobbying and seducing by the
followers of the Mont Pelerin Society and Friedmanites, neoliberalism is finally brought into …

Starting from the observation that value chain research has informed much of agricultural
development interventions in recent decades, this paper identifies five key challenges to …

City-regions are conferred economic advantage through their brokerage roles, which close
structural holes between other city-regions that would otherwise not be connected within firm …

To control the transmission of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19), Brazilian local
governments have adopted partial lockdown measures in economic sectors, thereby …

Economic diversification is seen as imperative to reduce resource-dependent economies'
vulnerability to a broader resource curse. Despite its importance, we know surprisingly little …