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Based on the Third International Conference on City Logistics (City Logistics III held in Madeira in 2003), this volume includes developments in the modelling, evaluation and planning of city logistics schemes. It also provides an overview of the visions for city logistics and public private partnerships for city logistics.

About developing implementable strategies for shipping firms. This book takes a close look at the challenge of driving one's strategy towards niches, with a spotlight on how to find a viable business opportunity and develop a defendable strength there.

The main purpose of this book is to enhance the understanding of differences in productivity performance between countries and sectors and to improve our insight in the drivers of productivity levels and its growth. It contains international comparisons between EU and OECD countries, in particular with regard to productivity performance.

Eurasia: A New Peace Agenda" includes chapters from a distinguished group of Eurasian scholars, journalists, and diplomats. The volume is focused on a new peace agenda grounded in a dialogue among the Eurasia civilizations. Part I deals with the problems and prospects of such a dialogue and its consequences for world peace. Part II focuses on the old dilemmas and new challenges in Eurasian security. The nuclear arms race, religious resurgence,...

This will become a very important publication in the field of tourism. It is unique." Jafar Jafari, Series Editor The aim of the book is to use personal histories of pioneers to describe and analyze the emergence of tourism study among anthropologically oriented scholars (those acting as informants among the earliest to work on the subject of tourism and continue still). The editor, besides contributing his own personal history and the introdu...

Fundamentals of Optical Waveguides" is an essential resource for any researcher, professional or student involved in optics and communications engineering. Any reader interested in designing or actively working with optical devices must have a firm grasp of the principles of lightwave propagation. Katsunari Okamoto has presented this difficult technology clearly and concisely with several illustrations and equations. Optical theory encompassed...

Selection of papers presented during the 80th Seminar of the European Association of Agricultural Economists held 2003 in Ghent, Belgium.

New venture founders and their sponsors seek to create economic value by finding and commercializing new and better ways of doing things. It also requires a deeper understanding of the consequences of new venture investment as well as the various contextual factors that influence investment decisions and venture outcomes.

Proponents of free trade argue that a benefit for developing countries is that it provides economic opportunities for their asset-less workers. To what extent have workers benefited? This book attempts to piece together evidence on the effects of trade liberalization on labor markets in developing countries and selected countries from Asia.

Though some important contributions are still being made to this more policy-oriented field, research has, as in many other areas of economics, shifted to less normative work.

The convergence of telecommunications, mass media and computer technologies has brought spectacular developments of ubiquitous intelligent interconnected systems. In the course of these evolutionary changes, debate and policy has swung again towards privatization, deregulation and increased reliance upon competition. Nevertheless, the underlying and powerful role of new information continues to bring so much restructuring and organizational ch...

The complex and conflicting demands that society makes on the countryside have led to an increasingly strategic approach to its management. This important new work evaluates the key challenges facing managers and policy-makers in the contemporary British countryside and critically examines a range of strategies for making the most of our natural heritage.

In March 1998, professional colleagues and students of TN Srinivasan joined together at the Festschrift Conference at Yale to honor his work. This book contains 19 of the contributions which were presented, reflecting the 4 closely related dimensions of trade and development. It deals with the various dimensions of the issue of growth.

The emergence of a macro economy in Euro-Asia is a challenge for academics and policy makers. This book focuses on this macro economy and the monetary and fiscal policy responses. It explores monetary policies allowing for uncertainty and time-varying behaviour of economic agents in markets.

In recent years, transportation research has seen a gradual shift from trip-based, via tour-based to activity-based models, in an effort to capture the true complexity of travel behaviour. This volume reflects an eventful decade of development and application of activity-based models. In three extensive sections, it: reviews a range of approaches to incorporating increased complexity in models, discusses how to obtain the rich data necessary t...

This book is concerned with the methods by which the dynamics of endogenous economic growth systems may be analysed and numerically computed, and with the validation of such numerical computations through qualitative economic reasoning. The methods comprise linearisation, phase-space analysis and a variety of numerical integration techniques. In particular, the book provides a detailed examination of the transitional dynamics (the movement fro...

Design Recipes for FPGAs provides a rich toolbox of design techniques and templates to solve practical, every-day problems using FPGAs. Using a modular structure, it provides design techniques and templates at all levels, together with functional code, which you can easily match and apply to your application. Written in an informal and easy to grasp style, this invaluable resource goes beyond the principles of FPGAs and hardware description la...

It is the intention of the editors to make available with this book a selection of current work in regional economics and regional science.

One important marketing issue is how to initiate, develop, and manage relationships with customers through the Internet. This book aims to improve our knowledge on utilization of the Internet in marketing. It offers theoretical as well empirical knowledge on managing customer relationships on the Internet.

This volume contains chapters by different authors describing the development of competition policy in 10 European Union Member States, as well as the interaction of those policies with EU competition policy. The convergence of Member State competition policy to the EU approach is put in evidence, as is the influence of Member State practice on EU competition policy. The chapters are rich in institutional detail, but also analyze the functioni...