Western Europe : challenge and change /
Contributor(s): Pinder, David | Institute of British Geographers.
Publisher: London ; New York : Belhaven Press, 1990Description: xvi, 290 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.Content type: text | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1852930322 (hbk); 9781852930349:; 1852930349 (pbk).Subject(s): Technological innovations -- Economic aspects -- Europe | Política ambiental -- Europa Occidental | Europe -- Economic conditions -- 1945-![](/opac-tmpl/bootstrap/images/filefind.png)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Challenge and change in Western Europe: an overview / David Pinder -- Energy: resources and choices / Peter R. Odell -- European industry and global competition / Peter Dicken -- Manufacturing trends, corporate restructuring and spatial change / H.D. Watts -- Small firms: Phoenix from the ashes? / Colin M. Mason and Richard T. Harrison -- Technological change and regional economic advance / Alfred T. Thwaites and Neil Alderman -- Producer services and economic development / P.W. Daniels -- Urban decay and rejuvenation / Louis Shurmer-Smith and David Burtenshaw -- From small shop to hypermarket: the dynamics of retailing / S.L. Burt and J.A. Dawson -- The social and economic geography of labour migration: from guestworkers to immigrants / Russell King -- Unemployment: regional policy defeated? / M. Wise and B. Chalkley -- Supranational environmental policy and pollution control / Richard Williams -- The challenge and land redundance / Brian W. Ilbery -- Counterurbanisation: threat or blessing? / A.J. Fielding --
Tourism and development / Gareth Shaw and Allan M. Williams / Conservation and the rural landscape / Brian J. Woodruffe -- Conclusion: Western Europe approaches the twenty-first century / David Pinder.
A textbook on the geography of Western Europe designed for degree-level students and their instuctors seeking a thematically organized text that deals with the contemporary issues that confront the continent. Particular attention is paid to the impact of technological change.