Sökning: "economic geography china"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 18 avhandlingar innehållade orden economic geography china.
1. Rapid Urbanization : An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Urban Transition in Developing Countries
Sammanfattning : This thesis is concerned with the challenges posed by the contemporary urban narrative in developing countries. It is premised on the notion of the urban transition, which posits that as a country develops it undergoes a transformation from a predominantly rural society to a predominantly urban one. LÄS MER
2. The changing geography of innovation : Chinese and Indian regions and the global flows of innovation
Sammanfattning : Despite the recent theoretical and empirical advancements in the geography of innovation literature regarding the role that global sources of knowledge may have for regional growth and development, research in this field remains focused on successful regions and clusters in developed countries. Hitherto there has been limited research on the role of regions located in developing countries and the different types of global flows of innovation that link firms located in those regions with the rest of the world. LÄS MER
3. Urban-Rural Relations in China : A Study of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Metropolitan Region
Sammanfattning : Over three decades of rapid economic growth in China, beginning in 1978, has been accompanied by ever-enlarging urban-rural inequalities in terms of the various aspects of income, welfare, infrastructure, medical treatment, and education (amongst others). These two parts – the urban and the rural - have long been treated separately, without much consideration being given to their mutual linkages (relations). LÄS MER
4. Pastoralists and the Environmental State : A study of ecological resettlement in Inner Mongolia, China
Sammanfattning : China's quest for sustainable development has given birth to a set of contested ‘ecological construction’ programmes. Focusing on ‘ecological resettlement’, a type of policy measure in a programme for restoring degraded grasslands, this thesis sets out a critical analysis in opposition to the dominant technical and managerial approaches to understanding environmentalisation. LÄS MER
5. Where Gendered Spaces Bend : The Rubber Phenomenon in Northern Laos
Sammanfattning : This thesis seeks to understand and explain gendered everyday life in the village of HatNyao in Northwestern Laos, specifically in relation to rubber cultivation, by using an ethnographic approach and methods. The ‘rubber boom’ is changing the landscape of Northern Laos, and in the process is reshaping gendered everyday life. LÄS MER
