[PDF] The Infrastructured State eBook

Author : Colin Turner
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 45,39 MB
Release : 2020-02-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1788970314

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At the core of the logic of this book is that states engage in infrastructuring as a means of securing and enhancing their territoriality. By positioning infrastructure as a system, there is a presumption that all infrastructures exhibit some degree of mutual dependence. As such, a National Infrastructure System (NIS) is not simply about conventional conceptions of infrastructure based on those that support economic activity (i.e. energy, transport and information) but also about broader hard and soft structures that both enable and are supported by the aforementioned economic infrastructures. Consequently, this book offers an ambitious holistic view on the form of NIS arguing that the infrastructural mandate requires a conception of the state that encapsulates themes from both the competition and the welfare states in infrastructure provision.

Author : Colin Turner
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 40,34 MB
Release : 2017-11-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0857934414

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Infrastructure represents the core underpinning architecture of the global economic system. Adopting an approach informed by realism, this insightful book looks at the forces for the integration and fragmentation of the global infrastructure system. The authors undertake a thorough examination of the main internationalised infrastructure sectors: energy, transport and information. They argue that the global infrastructure system is a network of national systems and that state strategies exert powerful forces upon the form and function of this system.

Author : Xiangming Chen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 21,74 MB
Release : 2021-04-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1000397599

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The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), launched by China in 2013, carries and projects powerful regional dimensions and transformations, with short- and long-term global, national and local consequences. The BRI’s regional significance lies in its designation and creation of several cross-border corridors that originate from inside China and extend out into its neighbouring countries, and those farther afield in Asia, Africa and Europe. Through driving and facilitating new trade and infrastructure connections along and beyond these corridors, the BRI has begun to reshape the master processes of globalisation, urbanisation and development by affecting the economic, social and spatial fortunes of many countries and cities. This book serves two purposes. First, through a new framework and three case studies, it examines the BRI’s impacts on globalisation, urbanisation and development via the China-Europe Freight Train, the paired construction of a new city and railway across the China-Laos borderland and the port-park-city development corridor between Djibouti and Ethiopia. Second, the comparative analysis and evidence guide the book to advance policy recommendations for targeted stakeholders that can potentially turn the BRI into a global public good with greater benefits and fewer risks.

Author : Colin Turner
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 50,45 MB
Release : 2023-10-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3031277694

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One of the core functions of any successful business is the ability to manage and adapt to risk. In a global environment characterised by complexity, it is vital to be able to understand where risk lies and how it impacts upon business. This textbook presents a series of meta-level trends, including as geo-political risks, climate change, and technology, and explores how they are forming and reshaping the risk environment of business. Using a mix of micro and macro level analysis, students will be able to understand how seemingly random, global events, pose challenges for firms. Representing a bold sea-change in the study of international business, this book emphasises the practical elements that students will need to understand in order to succeed in the real world. Readers will not only learn how to understand and read risks in international markets, but they will also benefit from a tooklit to help them assess these processes. Ultimately, this textbook will furnish students with a full appreciation of the importance of risk in international systems.

Author : Turner, Colin
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 30,24 MB
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1839105488

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This timely book explores the long-standing process of infrastructural integration across Europe, with a particular focus on the EU member states. It illuminates the main economic infrastructure sectors, including transport, energy and information, examining how the process of infrastructural integration reflects an alignment of the needs of the states that are the main drivers behind this process.

Author : Anna-Theresa Renner
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 12,32 MB
Release : 2024-06-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1800883137

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This timely Handbook showcases cutting-edge empirical and theoretical social science research to shed light on the role, aims and functioning of social infrastructure (SI). Leading scholars present unique insights on topics such as healthcare, childcare, education, employment and SI for marginalized groups alongside cultural and recreational infrastructures.

Author : Barbara Grabher
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,73 MB
Release : 2024-05-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1040026699

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Innovative and the first of its kind, this informative and multidisciplinary book explores the socio-cultural significance inherent in event infrastructures. While mainstream event management literature addresses event infrastructures mainly through its operational relevance, this carefully compiled edited volume takes infrastructures as an analytical point in respect to its social, political, economic and cultural potential of the study of events. Borrowing from the ongoing social scientific debates on the geography, sociology and anthropology of infrastructures, critical questions are posed in relation to the event contexts. With references to events in Argentina, Malawi, Spain and the UK, among others, the volume combines an international perspective with a highly relevant subject for contemporary event management education. By bringing together theoretical as well as empirical readings on the question of event infrastructures from a critical point of view, the debates are relevant to practitioners and researchers as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students in the field of events, leisure, tourism, anthropology, sociology, geography and urban planning – among others.

Author : Chay Yue Wah
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 33,75 MB
Release : 2019-08-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9811203288

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This book presents critical analyses of China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) from economic, social, political and geographical perspectives. Contributed by academics and business professionals from Asia, Europe and Australia, the chapters offer readers a range of regional viewpoints and insights into China's grand development strategy — primarily aimed at boosting connectivity across Asia and beyond via investments in infrastructural projects. The chapters also discuss the contemporary economic, financial, political and infrastructural developments related to the BRI and the challenges that confront the Initiative.This edited volume serves as a primer to China's mega strategic undertaking, a supplementary companion and reference resource to those familiar with the BRI.

Author : Yi Pan
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 43,37 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781594543968

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