Review: Business Negotiations with the Japanese, Key to Japan's Economic Strength: Human Power, Housing Needs and Policy Approaches: Trends in Thirteen Countries, Research in Planning and Design 12. The Evolution of Spatial Policy: A Case Study of Inner-Urban Policy in the United Kingdom 1968–1981, London Research Series in Geography 9. Welfare Politics in Mexico: Papering over the Cracks, Intergovernmental Finance Relations in Austria, Public Choice, Public Finance, and Public Policy: Essays in Honour of Alan Peacock, Immigrant Workers and Class Structure in Western Europe

1987 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-122
Author(s):  
D H Kornhauser ◽  
S Rosenberry ◽  
G Rees ◽  
W Armstrong ◽  
H Zimmermann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Policy ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Human Power ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Spatial Policy ◽  
Business Negotiations ◽  
Housing Needs ◽  
Welfare Politics

The New Urban Infrastructure Crisis Competition for Urban Space

1997 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 148-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Marvin ◽  
Simon Slater
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Urban Infrastructure ◽  
Private Companies ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Competing Demands ◽  
Road Space ◽  
The City ◽  
Privately Owned

British cities are now experiencing unprecedented competition for surface and subsurface urban space. Restructuring of the utilities sector has created privately owned companies that are now engaged in major programs of infrastructure renewal while massive investments are underway in retrofitting new forms of telecommunications, energy, and transportation infrastructure. Above the ground, increasing mobility has created new demands for urban road space for the movement of goods and people. Focusing on a case study of Sheffield, the article identifies the competing demands for space, examines the broader implications of these new tensions, and evaluates how far the city is able to mediate between competing demands. The article concludes by raising serious questions about the ability of urban policy to mediate between private companies' demands for urban space in the United Kingdom.

Prokofiev’s Reception in the United Kingdom

2020 ◽  
pp. 385-404
Author(s):  
Joseph Schultz
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Cold War ◽  
General Public ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Musical Creativity ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Ideological Assumptions

Chapter 19 examines the reception of Prokofiev’s music in the United Kingdom over the course of the last century, providing a case study of the evolving critical reactions in Western Europe to the composer’s works. It illustrates the ways in which Western views of Soviet musical creativity have been influenced by ideological assumptions and stereotypical constructs of Russianness and Soviet-ness. Prokofiev’s early work prompted highly conflicted responses, focusing on commentators’ construction of an exoticized image of a Slavic musical barbarian. Attitudes developed with the composer’s return to the USSR and became increasingly condescending during the Cold War, but these opinions subsequently warmed as more of his operatic and symphonic works became familiar to the general public. Standard scholarly writings, music journals, and newspaper reviews have been extensively consulted, with the focus upon those commentators, such as Ernest Newman, Gerald Abraham, and David Nice, who helped shape Prokofiev’s standing in the United Kingdom.

scholarly journals Explaining the informal economy in Western Europe: beyond a rational economic actor perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Williams ◽  
Gamze Oz-Yalaman
Keyword(s):  
Informal Economy ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Alternative Theory ◽  
Probit Regression ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Economic Actor ◽  
Expected Benefits ◽  
Practical Implications

PurposeThe dominant theorisation of the informal economy views participants as rational economic actors operating in the informal economy when the expected benefits exceed the perceived costs of being caught and punished. Recently, an alternative theory has emerged which views participants as social actors operating in the informal economy due to their lack of vertical trust (in governments) and horizontal trust (in others). The aim of this paper is to evaluate these competing theorisations.Design/methodology/approachTo do so, data are reported from special Eurobarometer surveys conducted in 2007, 2013 and 2019 in eight West European countries (Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom).FindingsUsing probit regression analysis, the finding is that increasing the expected likelihood of being caught and level of punishment had a weak significant impact on the likelihood of participating in the informal economy in 2007, and there was no significant impact in 2013 and 2019. However, greater vertical and horizontal trust is significantly associated with a lower level of participation in the informal economy in all three time periods.Practical implicationsThe outcome is a call for a policy to shift away from increasing the expected level of punishment and likelihood of being caught, and towards improving vertical and horizontal trust. How this can be achieved is explored.Originality/valueEvidence is provided in a Western European context to support a shift away from a rational economic actor to a social actor approach when explaining and tackling the informal economy.

scholarly journals Rain Erosion Maps for Wind Turbines Based on Geographical Locations: A Case Study in Ireland and Britain

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Pugh ◽  
M. M. Stack
Keyword(s):  
Wind Turbine ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Meteorological Data ◽  
Turbine Blades ◽  
Weather Conditions ◽  
Annual Rainfall ◽  
Wind Turbine Blades ◽  
Weather Patterns ◽  
The Uk

AbstractErosion rates of wind turbine blades are not constant, and they depend on many external factors including meteorological differences relating to global weather patterns. In order to track the degradation of the turbine blades, it is important to analyse the distribution and change in weather conditions across the country. This case study addresses rainfall in Western Europe using the UK and Ireland data to create a relationship between the erosion rate of wind turbine blades and rainfall for both countries. In order to match the appropriate erosion data to the meteorological data, 2 months of the annual rainfall were chosen, and the differences were analysed. The month of highest rain, January and month of least rain, May were selected for the study. The two variables were then combined with other data including hailstorm events and locations of wind turbine farms to create a general overview of erosion with relation to wind turbine blades.

Income inequality and growth from functional orientation and spatial policy: Case study of Tibet, China

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 178-193
Author(s):  
Yan-nan Zhao ◽  
Jie Fan ◽  
Ya-fei Wang ◽  
Bo Liang ◽  
Lu Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Income Inequality ◽  
Spatial Policy ◽  
Functional Orientation
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