German Annual of Spatial Research and Policy 2009

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David Batten, John Casti, Roland Thord

This book presents the latest information on both the theory and applications of networks, especially from the fields of transportation and communication, economics and human knowledge handling. It demonstrates that networks are of broad interest and that networks analysis from different disciplines offer unifying insight. Special attention is paid to networks in the ever increasing integration of Europe. Another point of focus is upon combinatorial aspects and the interactive effects between different networks, often known as synergetics.

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Judith Pallot and Tat'yana Nefedova

"Basing their findings on four years of research during which they studied rural districts drawn from a variety of contrasting regions of European Russia, the authors discuss the place of rural households in Russia's agri-food production system. They show that far from being solely concerned with 'survival' household plots in contemporary Russia are increasingly used to produce crops and livestock products for the market. In this book the authors describe the rich variety of forms that small and independent farming takes today; from highly localised clusters of cucumber or tomato producers to specialization in crop or animal husbandry at a higher spatial scale or associated with particular ethnic groups."--BOOK JACKET.

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Nathan H. Gartner, Gennaro Improta

This book provides recent research results on the most pertinent subjects for the development and the design of intelligent transportation systems and advanced transport telematics, including the following topics: dynamic traffic assignment models, dynamic route guidance methods, urban traffic management and control strategies, advanced traveller information systems, methods for congestion prediction and congestion pricing, queueing systems, etc. The book will be of particular interest to scientists, engineers and researchers that are involved in the development and application of advanced transportation technologies.

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Scott Shane

"Despite a wealth of efforts that examine separately the role entrepreneurs and universities play in economic development, no systematic effort has been made to examine the role universities play in promoting economic development through entrepreneurship. This book fills that gap, focusing on policy aspects of government-university partnerships with a discussion both of best practices and problematic strategies."--Jacket.