Agglomeration economics

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Anna Nagurney, Stavros Siokos

Financial analysis is concerned with the study of capital flows over time and space. This book presents a new theory of multi-sector, multi-instrument financial systems based on the visualization of such systems as networks. The framework is both qualitative and computational and depends crucially on the methodologies of finite-dimensional variational inequality theory for the study of statics and equilibrium states and on projected dynamical systems for the study of dynamics and disequilibrium behavior. Moreover, it adds a graphical dimension to the fundamental economic structure of financial systems and their evolution through time.

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Darius Bartlett and Jennifer Smith

"A comprehensive, authoritative, and up-to-date overview of state-of-the-art coastal zone GIS applications, this practical book places the science in a management context. The chapters present groundbreaking coastal applications of GIS-based decision support tools, spatial data infrastructures, remote sensing technology including LiDAR and CASI, and more. Covering a broad range of topics, the organization of this volume supplies a flow and structure that make the information easily accessible and immediately applicable."--BOOK JACKET.

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Arnold W. Sametz

This book explores recent changes in the financial industry in terms of products, regulation and strategic planning. The focus is on the insurance industry and the emerging insurance products and strategies. Issues discussed are the consumer demand for insurance products, the effect of bank deregulation on insurance companies, the investment management policies of insurance companies and the implications for strategic planning in the insurance industry.

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Louise Morley and Val Walsh

This volume explores questions of feminist interventions in higher education. Feminism is located as a force for change, empowering women to gain a political understanding and providing a methodology for new approaches to teaching, learning, research and writing in the academy. The chapters cover the structure and culture of academic institutions, for example, Lesley Kerman's 'The Good Witch: Advice to Women in Management'; Liz Stanley's 'My Mother's Voice?: On Being A 'Native' in Academia'; and Heidi Mirza's 'Black Women in Higher Education: Defining a Space/Finding a Place'. The authors also explore the social divisions between women, for example, Jo Stanley's 'Pain(t) for Healing: The Academic Conference and the Classed/Embodied Self', and demonstrate how an analysis of the micropolitics of the academy in terms of power, policies, discourses, pedagogy and interpersonal relationships, provides a framework for de-privatising women's experiences and influencing change.