The Economic Geography of the UK

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. It includes a preface by Doreen Massey.

ISBN	1849200904	Pages	280
ISBN13	9781849200905 (What's this?)	Weight (grammes)	476
Publisher	SAGE Publications Ltd	Published in	London
Imprint	SAGE Publications Ltd	Height (mm)	242
Format	Paperback	Width (mm)	170
Publication date	24 Aug 2010	Spine width (mm)	18
DEWEY	330.941	Academic level	Tertiary education
DEWEY edition	DC22

	Acknowledgements
	Preface
	List of contributors
PART I	SETTING THE SCENE: UNEVEN ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHIES	1
1	Introduction: the shifting geographies of the UK economy? by Andrew Jones	3
2	Persistent North-South divides by Danny Dorling	12
3	Uneven regional growth: the geographies of boom and bust under New Labour by Ron Martin	29
PART II	LANDSCAPES OF POWER, INEQUALITY AND FINANCE	47
4	The City and finance: changing landscapes of power by John Allen	49
5	Banking on financial services by Andrew Leyshon	61
6	The geography of UK government finance: tax, spend and what lies between by Steve Musson	79
7	State and economy: governing uneven development in the UK by John Tomaney	91
8	Housing and the UK economy by Chris Hamnett	110
9	The geographical pension gap: understanding patterns of inequality in UK occupational pensions by Gordon L. Clark	123
PART III	LANDSCAPES OF PRODUCTION AND CIRCULATION	137
10	The changing geographies of manufacturing and work: made in the UK? by Ray Hudson	139
11	Business services: driving the knowledge-based economy in the UK? by James R. Faulconbridge	153
12	Agricultural restructuring and changing food networks in the UK by Damian Maye	166
13	The shifting geographies of UK retailing by Neil Wrigley	181
14	UK energy dilemmas: energy security and climate change by Michael J. Bradshaw	196
PART IV	LANDSCAPES OF SOCIAL CHANGE	209
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That geography forms, rather than merely reflects, economies is by now widely recognized. But fully to understand that there are no such things as economies, only economic geographies, requires careful and theoretically sophisticated accounts. The contributions in this book offer such an understanding of the economic geographies of the UK and are thereby sensitive to the complex geographies through which economies take place. It is essential reading within and, even more, beyond Geography. The current crisis of economy and Economics demands no less Roger Lee Professor emeritus of geography, Queen Mary University of London

In the aftermath of the global economic crisis, The Economic Geography of the UK brings to the academy a highly-innovative, thought provoking and empirically-rich collection of essays that tracks the most significant socio-economic changes of the U.K.'s space economy over recent times. From re-visiting the geographical imaginations of the North-South divide to uncovering the City of London's financial economy within a UK and global context, to understanding new social landscapes of work, immigration and labour market change, both undergraduate and graduate students and researchers alike, from across the social sciences, will all be treated to one of the most authoritative and research-driven texts, which uncovers the geography of contemporary economic and social change in the UK. Neil Coe and Andrew Jones, and all contributing authors, must be commended on the highest quality of their incisive theoretical and empirical scholarship, which I would suggest must be an essential companion to anyone seeking knowledge and understanding of socio-economic change in the contemporary UK space economy Jonathan V. Beaverstock University of Nottingham

The most outstanding feature of the text is the statistical data and figues utilised by the authors to complement the written word...the figures could be used in the teaching of the geogrpahical concept of special change over time...I would recommend the text for those who are interested in pursuing research in the area of socioeconomic change or have an interest in the demography of the UK Geographical Education

The book is written in an accessible form both organizationally and stylistically. Individual chapters, while offering the intellectual depth of an academic journal article, are careful to explain terminology and benefit from bulleted aims at the start of each contribution allowing readers to gain a quick grasp of its focus. Such thoughtful presentation eases undergraduate students into serious academic engagement and potentially provides a springboard for further exploration into the recommended reading at the end of each chapter...This book will most obviously be compulsory reading on under and postgraduate economic geography modules where it will encourage critical engagement and thinking. However, I believe that it could (and should) gain traction beyond its core discipline. Given the wide ranging multi-disciplinary nature of the themes discussed, it should also provide interest across the social sciences, notably for sociologists and throughout business and management studies. Steve Wood University of Southampton

The quality and usefulness of this book [make it] a core text in an undergraduate or indeed postgraduate module, or as evidence for research into the UK's changing economic geography. Oli Mould University of Salford

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