Chung-Tong Wu

• Western Sydney University

This book provides a comparative analysis of shrinking cities in a broad range of postsocialist countries within the so-called Global East, a liminal space between North and South. While shrinking cities have received increased scholarly attention in the past decades, theoretical, and empirical research has remained predominantly centered on the Gl...

A South Korean former coal mining region, Gangwon Province, faced with a severe economic downturn and rapid out-migration, chose to develop a casino to revive its economy and to stabilise its shrinking population. More than a decade on, in spite of some positives from this expansionist strategy, population decline continues with no fundamental chan...

Border studies posit that twin cities represent aspirations to proactively and deliberately become one entity resulting in fundamental changes to the social, economic and political identity of the two communities involved. While some twin cities in the EU and between EU and Russia do follow this pattern, this is not the case in the Russian Far East...

Shrinking mining cities — once prosperous settlements servicing a mining site or a system of mining sites — are characterized by long‐term population and/or economic decline. Many of these towns experience periods of growth and shrinkage, mirroring the ebbs and flows of international mineral markets which determine the fortunes of the dominant mini...

There was widespread concern in Australia following the mid-1997 outbreak of the Asian financial crisis because the nation's strong trade orientation to Asia implied that the national economy would be adversely affected. Against expectations, whilst exports to Asia did indeed drop, this was compensated for by increases to other countries and by the...

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LEUNG C. K. and WU C. T. (1995) Innovation environment, R & D linkages and technology development in Hong Kong, Reg. Studies 29, 533--546. Based on detailed interviews with major industry and trade organizations and an investigation of 46 electronics and professional equipment manufacturers, this paper finds that the environment in Hong Kong for te...

:Interest in the development of Asian cross-border zones has burgeoned since the late 1980s and early 1990s after the Cold War period. Thailand and its neighbours are developing economic relationships that naturally started with their respective borderlands. Responding to these possibilities, Thai government agencies, often in conjunction with bila...

T.G McGee

This paper describes a regional development plan in North East Asia, in the context of regional planning theory and various geo-political changes which have occurred in the region. Known as the Tumen Regional Development Project, the area encompasses parts of North Korea, China, and Russia. On the one hand, the geography, the presence of raw materi...

Three topics are explored in this article: the characteristics of cross-border development, a comparison between Eastern European and Asian border regions, and the policy aspects of cross-border developments. This study draws its case studies from cross-border developments that have emerged in former socialist regimes. While there are similarities,...

Theories of citizenship and, in particular, its exclusionary features in a period of globalization have particular significance for an avowedly immigrant society such as Australia with a policy commitment to multiculturalism. The nature of Australian national identity and citizenship reemerged on the political agenda in conjunction with the 1988 Bi...

"Illegal migration from China is contrasted to that from Vietnam to highlight Hong Kong's unique place in such flows.... The key difference in Hong Kong's effectiveness at stemming these two illegal migrant streams has been bilateral cooperation, which has been achieved with China but lacking in the case of Vietnam.... This paper seeks to outline t...

Tourism development in Asia and Pacific can be studied from four perspectives: the political economy of underdevelopment; the way poor people respond to the opportunities provided by tourism; the effects of tourism on the communal and ethnic conflicts which may exist in the host society; and the effects of the moral and religious attitudes towards...

The Lesotho Minister for Agriculture, Co-operatives, and Marketing was reported recently to have shaken the delegates at the World Conference on Agrarian Reform and Development in Rome by his observation on the value of such intergovernmental gatherings on the subject of development:

Reviews theories of spatial inequality and examines related data for China, in such fields as industrial production, innovation diffusion, industrial decentralisation, retention of rural surpluses, and rural incomes. -F.Leeming

Provides a first hand account of recent Chinese experience in rural development. Reforms in China were based fundamentally on the need to overcome the problems of the transfer of the surplus generated in rural areas. To prevent this extraction China institued a decentralisation of power to the regions and a change in the production relations so tha...

Runyan, Dean and Chung-Tong Wu, “Assessing Tourism's more Complex Consequences,” Annals of Tourism Research, October/December 1979, VI(4):448–463. The development of tourism can have extensive physical, social and economic impacts. Certain of these impacts can be classified as relatively complex: those that take many variables to describe, are diff...

Shrinkage is not a topic of much discussion in most OECD countries where the planning paradigm of growth has dominated the scene for many years. However, the debate has recently intensified in Germany, specially regarding its Eastern cities, posing new questions about the efficiency and sustainability of planning for urban growth in an era of subst...