The Economic Geography of the Car Market (eBook, PDF)

The Automobile Revolution in an Emerging Economy
Redaktion: Kolsut, Bartlomiej; Stryjakiewicz, Tadeusz

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of long-term changes in the car market of an emerging economy, with a focus on its spatial and temporal dimensions. Poland, the case study in question, represents a unique "laboratory of automobile revolution" during the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000707618
• Artikelnr.: 65609181

Autorenporträt

Bart¿omiej Ko¿sut is Assistant Professor at the Department of Economic Geography, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznä (Poland). Tadeusz Stryjakiewicz is Professor of Geography and former head of the Department of Economic Geography, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznä (Poland).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Why is Poland such an intriguing case study of the
automobile revolution in an emerging economy? 3. Driving gears of car
ownership transformation 4. The market for new cars: Another dimension of
the core-periphery pattern 5. The import of second-hand cars: evidence of
individual entrepreneurship and social networks 6. Car use and alternative
mobility solutions as a reflection of urban sprawl and marginalization of
rural areas 7. Hybrid and electric cars: A novelty for the elites or a
future ubiquitous good? 8. How the automobile revolution affects the
natural environment 9. Conclusions, policy recommendations and future
challenges in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic