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This sixth volume in the SAGE Series on Green Society covers the consumption, availability, and distribution of energy and other resources in the personal consumer environment

Key Concepts in Economic Geography is a new kind of textbook that forms part of an innovative set of companion texts for the Human Geography sub-disciplines. Organized around 20 short essays, Key Concepts in Economic Geography provides a cutting edge introduction to the central concepts that define contemporary research in Economic Geography. Involving detailed and expansive discussions, the book includes: a) an introductory chapter providing a succinct overview of the recent developments in the field; b) over 20 key concept entries with comprehensive explanations, definitions and evolutions of the subject; c) extensive pedagogic features that enhance understanding including figures, diagrams and further reading. An ideal companion text for upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students in economic geography, the book presents the key concepts in the discipline, demonstrating their historical roots and contemporary applications to fully understand the processes of economic change, regional growth and decline, globalization, and the changing locations of firms and industries. -- Back cover

Ascendance of economics -- Economy and the state -- India, 1757-1947 : re-forming India -- Transforming society -- Agriculture : the legacy of neglect -- Energizing the countryside

The Dutch story / Robert Solow -- The debate in the Netherlands on low pay / Wiemer Salverda, Maarten van Klaveren, and Marc van der Meer -- Low-wage work and the economy / Wiemer Salverda -- Labor market institutions, low-wage work, and job quality / Wiemer Salverda -- The position, design, and methodology of the industry studies / Maarten van Klaveren -- The retail industry : the contrast of supermarkets and consumer electronics / Maarten van Klaveren -- Hotels : industry restructuring and room attendants' jobs / Ria Hermanussen -- Health care : integrated quality care sheltered from cost control? / Marc van der Meer -- Call center employment : diverging jobs and wages / Maarten van Klaveren and Wim Sprenger -- The food industry : meat processing and confectionary / Arjen van Halem -- Labor market institutions and firm strategies that matter for the low-paid / Wiemer Salverda ... [et al.]

Contents -- About the Author -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Reconnecting to the Progressive Past -- Chapter 1. Engaging the Social Question at the Early Russell Sage Foundation -- Chapter 2. Social Science, the Social Question, and the Value-Neutrality Debate -- Part II. Understanding the Challenge from the Right -- Chapter 3. Unsettling the Social Question: From Consensus to Counterrevolution in the Postwar Politics of Knowledge -- Chapter 4. The Poor Law, the Social Question, and the New Politics of Reform