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This book presents state-of-the-art perspectives on the Blue Economy. It applies important geographical and sustainability transitions perspectives and underscores how Blue Economy dynamics are situated in regional contexts and shaped by the people who live there.The book highlights the Blue Economy concept as a potential driver of regionally sensitive, ecologically embedded, and community-focused sustainability. The scope for Blue Economy to form a core "cog" in our low-carbon future is obvious, from the potential for renewable energy production and coastal resilience building to possibilities for sustainable food production and the delivery of economic opportunities for peripheral communities. However, fundamental questions remain on how to meaningfully deliver these promises, such as how to avoid embedding a model of damaging extractivism, as per the terrestrial economy, and how to deliver on the key social sustainability principles of human well-being, equity, and justice when planning and developing blue economies. As the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development opens, this book provides a timely reminder of the richness, diversity, and potential of coastal and marine spaces. It advances geographical and transdisciplinary understandings of the Blue Economy and sets a baseline for continued scholarly engagement with the Blue Economy from a variety of perspectives.This timely contribution will be of interest to policy makers, academics, industry leaders, decision makers, and stakeholders working in or connected to the Blue Economy Sphere and working in the fields of Economic Geography, Regional Development, Public Policy and Planning, Environmental Studies, and Coastal Zone Management.

Presenting multidisciplinary and global insights, this book explores the nexus between economies, institutions, and territories and how global phenomena have local consequences.

Presenting multidisciplinary and global insights, this book explores the nexus between economies, institutions, and territories and how global phenomena have local consequences.

The last decade has witnessed an expansion of social protection schemes such as cash transfers, health insurance, and pensions in Sub-Saharan Africa. This book focuses on 3 important sectors of informal work: transport, construction, and micro-trade in Kenya and Tanzania.

This book nuances our understanding of the contemporary creative economy by engaging with a set of three key tensions: between individual and collaborative creative practices, between tradition and innovation, and between isolated and interconnected spaces of creativity.

This book explores the manner in which agritourism, enotourism and aletourism contribute to the development of peripheral rural areas.

Knowledge acquisition and organisation are central to the operation and marketing of many service-providing organisations. These requirements motivate the organisations' structure, their relationships to others, the location of their operations and their entry into new markets. This book explores the nature of these contingent relationships.

This book centers around an intense debate among donors, policy makers, development practitioners and academics on the efficacy of aid in eradicating poverty while promoting human development.

Examines a range of case studies illustrating various agri-food commodity chains and networks around the world and discusses how these link globally.

Local food systems have the potential to provide residents with a supply of safe and nutritious food; such systems also have the potential to create much-needed employment opportunities. This title provides a foundation for the development of sub-fields in economic, urban, and agricultural geographies that focus on local food systems.

Addressing a number of 'missing links' in the analysis of labour and its geographies, this title examines how theoretical perspectives on both labour in general and the organizations of the labour movement in particular can be refined and redefined. It examines issues of agency, power and collective mobilizations.

Bringing together case studies from Canada, the Nordic countries and Russia, this book is the first to provide a comparative examination of the current transformations in the forest industry regimes and the challenges they make for the communities dependent on this industry.

An examination of the varied paths of the American inter-city bus industry from its origins in the second decade of the 20th century to deregulation in 1982. It analyzes the development of the industry, probes the growth of particular companies and investigates aspects of business behaviour.

This book explores the manner in which agritourism, enotourism and aletourism contribute to the development of peripheral rural areas.

Taking a geographical approach, this book produces new critical work on the interdependence between globalization and rural spaces. Bringing together an interdisciplinary team of academics, and comparative case studies from Europe (West and East) and Asia.

This book critically examines different forms of urban-rural links for sustainable development in different countries. As intertwined processes of globalization, digitalization, environmental challenges and search for sustainable development continue, rural and urban areas around the world become interconnected and interdependent.