Product Description: Within the international agri-food community at least four theoretical targets are attracting increasing attention. They are: (1) the established notions of networks and commodity chains that are being revisited by way of critical engagement informed by the insights of in-depth empirical work, (2) the metrics of calculation and institutional embedding that underpin the rise and functionality of governance technologies, (3) the place of regional networking in creating conditions that make possible agri-food producer participation in local provisioning and supply, and (4) the geo-historical dimensions of interconnection and interdependency in the agri-food sphere...read more

Product Description: As a core volume in the "Dynamics of Economic Space" series, contributors from North America, Australasia, Europe and the Middle East each address the constitutive processes of new economic and institutional spaces and the theoretical, methodological and policy-engaging practices of emerging economic geographies...read more

Product Description: This innovative book focuses current concerns about the transformed geographical structure of industry and human resource development. It provides the essential link between these two research areas and develops a new theoretical dimension to the debate...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)