Understanding spatial socio-economic inequalities

Global transformations such as globalization and climate change influence the economic fate of people and places very differently. Also, places differ in terms of the opportunities they offer to firms and the people living there. As a result, there are important socio-economic inequalities across space. Economic Geography gives you the tools to understand such inequalities.

The aim of this book is to provide students and other interested ...

'Wat gebeurt waar? En waarom daar?' zijn de centrale vragen die een geograaf stelt. De economisch geograaf kijkt bij die vragen vooral naar de locatie en regionale spreiding van bedrijven en consumenten. Van oudsher worden locatievoorkeuren en regionale ontwikkeling verklaard uit ruimtelijke verschillen in kosten en opbrengsten tussen landen, regio's en steden. Maar er zijn ook andere verklaringen te geven zoals de rol van de regionale cultuur, de effectiviteit van planologisch beleid en de e...

What is happening where? And why there? These are the geographer's main questions. The economic geographer mainly focuses in this connection on the location and regional distribution of producers and consumers. Locational preferences and regional development are traditionally explained on the basis of spatial cost and profit differences among countries, regions and cities. There are however also other explanations such as the role of the regional culture, the effectiveness of planological pol...