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Service Industries in the World Economy
Peter W. Daniels
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Description for Service Industries in the World Economy
Paperback. The geography of services is no longer of local or national significance: it now embraces the international stage. Service industries have enabled, and themselves become participants in, world trade. Although this is not a new role, during the 1980s they have become a much more active ingredient in the process of social and economic change. Series: The Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers Studies in Geography. Num Pages: 224 pages, 0. BIC Classification: KCJ; KCL; KNS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 12. Weight in Grams: 336.
The geography of services is no longer of local or national significance: it now embraces the international stage. Service industries have enabled, and themselves become participants in, world trade. Although this is not a new role, during the 1980s they have become a much more active ingredient in the process of social and economic change.
New and diversified service products have generated increased consumption, ranging from tourism and leisure, to sophisticated innovations in ways of making finance capital available for corporate growth or production strategies. But there are spatial variations between the world's nations, regions and cities that ... Read more
The geography of services is no longer of local or national significance: it now embraces the international stage. Service industries have enabled, and themselves become participants in, world trade. Although this is not a new role, during the 1980s they have become a much more active ingredient in the process of social and economic change.
New and diversified service products have generated increased consumption, ranging from tourism and leisure, to sophisticated innovations in ways of making finance capital available for corporate growth or production strategies. But there are spatial variations between the world's nations, regions and cities that ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Series
The Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers Studies in Geography
Number of Pages
228
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United States
ISBN
9780631181323
SKU
V9780631181323
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About Peter W. Daniels
P. W. Daniels is Professor of Geography at the University of Birmingham, UK, and was formerly Professor of Geography and Director of The Service Industries Research Centre at the University of Portsmouth, UK. He has published widely on the geography of services.
Reviews for Service Industries in the World Economy
"The book's value lies in its wide-sweeping survey of what is known about the entire field... a very useinformative book that can serve as a text for economic geographers, but which also deserves to be read by those with international interests from other disciplines. His work demonstrates that economic geographers have much to contribute in this area, especially in their ... Read more