Product Description: In this volume, scholars from around the region analyze the impacts of globalization on cities in the Asia Pacific region. This collection forms a useful, comprehensive, and ambitious study, focusing on the region's specific urban concerns and on broader theoretical issues surrounding social and environmental conditions in major metropolitan centers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In this volume, the world's urban future is analyzed through a number of critical themes that relate to globalization, such as urban corridors, Islamic cities, new technologies, transport and telecommunications, financial centers, and food issues...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: The profound transformations occurring in the world's politics, economics, demography, technology, ecology, and ethics demand a means of evaluating and adjusting to these changes. This volume focuses on global modelling and simulation studies to examine world megatrends of change and response alternatives...read more

Product Description: This book examines world trends in military spending, exploring possible arms reduction scenarios and considering their impacts on the world economy, with particular emphasis on Third World countries. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)