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Cover -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: Industrial Transformation in a Changing Global Economy -- Perspective -- 2. The Changing Pacific Economy: Challenge to the Post-Industrial Economy -- Defining the Pacific Region: a Curious Task -- Historical Patterns of Incorporation of the Pacific Region into the World System -- The Effects of the Incorporation Process of the Pacific System -- The Effects of the Pacific Rim System on the Populations of the Region -- Conclusion: Can the White Settler Countries Catch the Third Wave? -- 3. The Australian Economy in Transition -- Development of Australia's Political Economy -- Economic and Political Dilemmas -- Spatial Patterns -- Attitudes and Impacts -- 4. Canada's Internal Core-Periphery Structure -- Recent Regional Trends in Canada -- Business Concentration -- Conclusion -- 5. Telecommunications and International Electronic Information Services: Australian Perspectives -- Internationalization of Electronic Information Services -- Australia's International Business Telecommunications Linkages -- Australia's International Trade in EISS -- Deregulation of International Telecommunications and Trade in EISs -- Conclusion -- Dimensions of Employment and Social Change -- 6. International Influences on Regional Unemployment Patterns in Canada during the 1981-84 Recession -- The 1981 Recession -- The Role of Industrial Structure -- Trade and Unemployment -- Conclusion -- 7. Labour Markets, Housing Markets and the Changing Family in Canada's Service Economy -- The Rise of Service-based Employment -- Economic Development and the Built Environment -- Changing Patterns of Work, Home and Family Life: Inner City Gentrification -- Conclusion -- 8. The Implications of International Change for Regional Work Force Structures and Characteristics in Australia -- Australia as an Open, Dependent Society.

'Economic Dynamism In The Asia-Pacific: The Growth of Integration and Competitiveness' edited by Grahame Thompson is reviewed.

AbstractTo power cloud data centres (DCs) with renewable energy (RE) Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft negotiated innovative long-term contracts that opened up regional vertically integrated electricity utilities to allow new roles for large-scale suppliers and buyers of electricity. This transformation is explained using Williamson's framework of institutional change linking the four interdependent institutional levels of embedded values, regulatory environment, (interfirm) governance and resource allocation. This framework is extended geographically by incorporating the regional and national interactions necessary for locating and spatially diffusing RE-driven DCs across the USA based on new power purchases and green tariff contractural agreements.

AbstractThis study examines the evolutionary geography of British Columbia's forest industries during a period marked by volatility and decline. Conceptually, the study draws upon the industrial life cycle model, identifying the distinctive characteristics of resource industries during the transition to maturity and beyond. Empirically, the study focuses on industry population dynamics and employment change at a meso‐scale, to reveal changing organizational, industrial, and geographical structures of BC's forest industries during the study period. There are high levels of plant exits and in some sub‐industries also of entry, a decline in large integrated firms, and important shifts in core‐periphery characteristics.

For 20 years, national governments have sought to slow the heating of the planet and the rise of the oceans by apportioning blame and attempting to spread the financial burden. The vehicle for their efforts, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), is a negotiating process aimed at getting countries to commit to reducing their emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases, the main cause of global warming. But the UNFCCC has floundered because of disagreements between developed and developing countries; difficulties in credibly measuring, reporting, and verifying emissions reductions; and the power of vested interests in the energy sector. Above all, the UNFCCC has failed because it does not provide powerful enough directives for companies to develop and use technologies that could radically reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. The UNFCCC does not focus on specific internationally traded products that generate harmful emissions. Instead, countries with little power to enforce how products are made are expected to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions on a national basis, leading to quarrels among a wide range of stakeholders and industry sectors. The framework's reliance on emissions-trading schemes, meanwhile, offers countries and companies a cheap out, allowing them to forestall investments in clean technologies. Climate diplomacy urgently needs a new approach. The international community should shift its focus from setting targets that countries cannot meet to setting directives that multinational corporations have to follow. Relying on the threat of sanctions, the UN should compel the multinational corporations that dominate important sectors to define and adopt ambitious targets for driving down their greenhouse gas emissions. Third parties would evaluate the reductions throughout the corporations' supply and distribution channels. Individual countries contain multitudes of competing voices and interests, which complicate efforts to get them to change their behavior. But corporations are authoritative organizations that can channel extraordinary levels of human, technical, and fiscal resources toward specific problems and missions. Multinational corporations dominate markets, trade, investment, research and development, and the spread of technology. To fight climate change, the international community needs to harness this power. Adapted from the source document.