Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
The Digital Transformation of Global Value Chains: Metropolitan and Regional Contexts
1st Edition
Edited
By Ulrich Hilpert
December 31, 2026
This book examines how digital technologies and artificial intelligence are fundamentally reshaping global value chains and economic participation. It explores the critical distinctions between three key groups: those who create algorithms, those who apply them in developing new technologies, and ...
The Political Economy of Uneven and Combined Development: The Case of North East England
1st Edition
By Ray Hudson
October 16, 2026
The focus of this book is the processes through which industries and regions grow and decline in capitalist economies via an investigation of the trajectory of change in the North East of England. How and why did its economy grow from the sixteenth century to be a "Workshop of the World" by the ...
Quality 4.0 in Smart City Management: Frameworks, Applications and Global Lessons
1st Edition
By Radosław Wolniak, Joanna Rosak-Szyrocka
September 24, 2026
This work introduces Quality 4.0 as an era of advanced quality management principles applied in the context of smart cities, blending classical and new approaches incorporating digital technologies, data analytics, artificial intelligence, and participatory system of governance. The authors define ...
Resilient and Generative Smart Cities: Innovation, Creativity and Urban Sustainability
1st Edition
By Marino Cavallo
July 23, 2026
The smart city is not merely a set of digital infrastructures, but a complex ecosystem in which technological networks, human capital, and urban communities intertwine. This volume explores the smart city as a relational space, a place where innovation, creativity, and resilience redefine urban ...
Lagging Regions in the European Union: Structural, Productivity and Efficiency Aspects
1st Edition
By Paweł Dobrzański
July 20, 2026
Unequal distribution of income is one of the most important socio-economic issues. The processes of globalisation and integration are accelerating economic growth; however, at the same time, imbalances between regions are growing. Reducing inequalities within regions and national economies, as well...
Technology-Based Regional Economic Development: Institutional Perspectives from the United States and Japan
1st Edition
By Akio Nishizawa, David V. Gibson
July 20, 2026
Regional technology-based economic development and the recruitment and retention of talent is a top priority of city-regions in the United States and in countries around the world. However, policy recommendations from government officials, industry leaders and academics are often ambiguous or are ...
Urban Scaling: Allometry in Urban Studies and Spatial Science
1st Edition
Edited
By Luca S. D'Acci
July 20, 2026
Urban allometry empirically describes how “things”, for example crime, GDP, emissions, energy use, area, street length, housing prices, etc. change in cities when their size, in terms of population, increases. Urban scaling is a relatively recent area of urban science, investigating how measurable ...
Evolving Intelligent Environments: Smart Ecosystems and Transformative Innovations in the 21st Century
1st Edition
By Nicos Komninos
June 24, 2026
There is growing global interest in understanding how digital technologies, institutional and physical spaces, particularly within the framework of digital and green agendas, can transform cities, influence behaviour, and stimulate innovation. This book advances a novel and interdisciplinary ...
Sustainable and Smart Cities: Governance, Economy and Society
1st Edition
Edited
By Anshuman Khare, Terry Beckman
June 22, 2026
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the challenges modern cities face in the context of climate change and urban development. By integrating varied viewpoints, it delves into the concept of sustainable and smart cities and sheds light on the opportunities for innovative and effective ...
The Economics of Regional Integration
1st Edition
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By Sándor Gyula Nagy
June 22, 2026
This book develops a new methodological framework for measuring the efficiency of regional integration and the integration profile of member states. It includes rich case studies, which offer a comparative analysis of ten integrations spanning four continents - The Americas, the European Union, ...
The European Green Deal and the Eastern Partnership: Towards Resilient, Sustainable and Integrated Economies
1st Edition
By Zofia Gródek-Szostak, Jadwiga Adamczyk, Karolina Kotulewicz-Wisińska, Agata Niemczyk, Karolina Wanda Olszowska, Anna Szeląg-Sikora
June 22, 2026
The Eastern Partnership (EaP) was launched in 2009 to strengthen institutional, economic and political relations between the European Union (EU) and the six Partnership countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine). Further, the adoption of the European Green Deal (EGD) ...
Economic Resilience and Pandemic Response
1st Edition
Edited
By Agnieszka Rzepka, Artur Paździor
May 22, 2026
The COVID-19 pandemic upended our social and economic lives. Lockdowns forced firms to implement health and safety protocols, employees to work from home, and businesses of all sorts to close. Even as lockdowns eased, the landscape of work, commerce, leisure, and education was irrevocably ...