The Economic Geography of the Uk

by Neil Coe

• ISBN13: 9781849200905
• ISBN10: 1849200904
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-09-16
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd

Summary

With the UK still facing the repercussions of the 2007 economic downturn, Coe and Jones' text is a timely, engaging discussion of the key issues facing the UK economy from a purely geographical perspective, written by some of the leading academics in the field.With pedagogical features to facilitate learning, including further reading and chapter aims, the text explores the complex connections that constitute the UK economy including the city and finance, the uneven development of the UK, the UK economy's links to the European Union and its wider ties to the global economy.Written for geography students studying modules on economic geography and the human geography of the UK, the text is a vibrantly written, easy-to-understand analysis of the current and future challenges that face the contemporary UK economy.Includes a preface by Doreen Massey.

Author Biography

Neil M. Coe is a Reader in Economic Geography at the University of Manchester. Andrew Jones is a Reader in Economic Geography at Birkbeck, University of London.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vii
Preface	p. viii
List of contributors	p. xi
Setting the Scene: Uneven Economic Geographies	p. 1
Introduction: the shifting geographies of the UK economy?	p. 3
Persistent North-South divides	p. 12
Uneven regional growth: the geographies of boom and bust under New Labour	p. 29
Landscapes of Power, Inequality and Finance	p. 47
The City and finance: changing landscapes of power	p. 49
Banking on financial services	p. 61
The geography of UK government finance: tax, spend and what lies between	p. 79
State and economy: governing uneven development in the UK	p. 91
Housing and the UK economy	p. 110
The geographical pension gap: understanding patterns of inequality in UK occupational pensions	p. 123
Landscapes of Production and Circulation	p. 137
The changing geographies of manufacturing and work: made in the UK?	p. 139
Business services: driving the knowledge-based economy in the UK?	p. 153
Agricultural restructuring and changing food networks in the UK	p. 166
The shifting geographies of UK retailing	p. 181
UK energy dilemmas: energy security and climate change	p. 196
Landscapes of Social Change	p. 209
Restructuring UK labour markets: work and employment in the twenty-first century	p. 211
New migrant divisions of labour	p. 225
The UK economy and the transformation of East Central Europe	p. 239
Coda: the UK economy in an era of globalisation	p. 253
Index	p. 259
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