(WTO) based in Geneva, Switzerland. Trade specializations have always shaped the ways that countries, regions, and localities are integrated into the world economy. National and urban governments, multilateral organizations, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) all viewinternational tradeas central ...
Definition Chapters and Articles Related Terms Recommended Publications Chapters and Articles You might find these chapters and articles relevant to this topic. Trade Blocs J.P.H. Poon, in International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, 2009 Introduction The role of international commerce and trade has ...
Urban school systems face many problems and challenges. Policy responses require not only improvement within schools but also a broad structure of civic support. These authors focus on the creation and activation of civic support for public education. Pittsburgh, Boston, and St. Louis provide very ...
For example, climate change has exerted persistent impacts on China’s ecological environment and socioeconomic development and brought serious threats to its food, water, ecology, energy, and urban operation security, as well as people’s safety and property29. China’s carbon emissions have ...
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In exchange for this trade, many cities in West Africa developed as rich urban areas with centers of learning.What Was the Gold-Salt Trade in Ancient Africa? Trade is one of the most important parts of any economy past or present, and this was especially true for the economy of West ...
M.Whitehead, inInternational Encyclopedia of Human Geography, 2009 Case Study II – Urban Sustainability in the Developing World, Ibadan Nigeria The secondcase studyof urban sustainability in practice addressed in this article is taken from a very different geographical context than that of the Greenwi...
Future studies could explore how relevant are the identified factors – historical experiences, geography and resource availability – in the formation of the 'landscape' in these other contextual settings and what may be other important factors. Further attention could also be paid to the way ...
The opening of the Greek economy to trade with the more advanced countries of the EU—Greece was the poorest member at the time of joining in 1981—coincided with a strengthening of the concentration of economic activity in the core urban cities and manufacturing hubs. The result was growing ...
& Zuo, J. Spatial spillover effects of environmental regulations on air pollution: evidence from urban agglomerations in China. J. Environ. Manag. 272, 110998 (2020). Article CAS Google Scholar Liu, J. Telecoupling. in International Encyclopedia of Geography 1–8 (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, ...