312 research outputs found
Anthony Munday and civic culture
No full textAnthony Munday and civic culture is a full-scale study of a fascinating but hitherto neglected author set in the context of the city where he was born, lived and worked. Munday was a contemporary of Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton This study of his diverse works throws fresh light on our understanding of this significant period. A wide range of Munday's texts are explored in depth, including plays, original prose works, translations, Lord Mayor's Shows, and his editions of John Stow's 'Survey of London'. Hill employs an interdisciplinary methodology drawing on history, biography, literary criticism and topography. She explores historical sources as well as literary texts and the book will appeal to students and scholars of both early modern literature and history as well as to cultural geographers
Exploring the Environmental Consequences of Tourism: A Satellite Account Approach
No full textin the development of subnational TSAs, which offer the opportunity of better modeling the local economic effects of visitation. Among the European regions, Wales represents a good case of TSA development. Research has benefited from the strong support of policy making organizations such as the Welsh Development Agency and the Wales Tourist Board, and with developed accounts and modeling frameworks being used to support the evaluation of tourism initiatives, and to model the effects of major events linked to visitation (sporting and otherwise; see, for example, Jones and Munday 2004; Jones, Munday, and Roberts 2003). Much of the work undertaken to date has focused on demonstrating the amount of economic activity supported by various types of tourism demand, and with research also examining the multiplie
Those wild rabbits
No full textAn Author event presented by The Friends of the University of Adelaide Library held in the Ira Raymond Room, Barr Smith Library, 17 August 2017.Storyteller Bruce Munday finds the rabbit saga irresistible - the naive hopes of the early settlers, the frustration, environmental damage, cost to agriculture, dreams shattered, and the lessons learned and ignored
Developing approaches to measuring and monitoring sustainable development in Wales: A review
No full textMunday M. and Roberts A. (2006) Developing approaches to measuring and monitoring sustainable development in Wales: a review, Regional Studies 40, 534-535. Under the 1998 Government of Wales Act, the Welsh Assembly Government committed to the promotion of sustainable development in the exercise of its functions. The paper examines a selection of approaches that are being explored in Wales to monitor and measure progress towards sustainable development objectives. These approaches are the ecological footprint, the index of sustainable economic welfare, the environmental satellite account, and environmental input-output tables. The paper shows that in Wales there are problems with each of the approaches outlined, but that development of an environmental satellite account could be useful, with this approach linked to the other approaches reviewed, and with the satellite account enabling environmental factors to be connected more readily to conventional regional accounting aggregates. The findings are expected to be relevant to other UK regions that are also seeking methods of monitoring and measuring progress towards sustainable development. Munday M. et Roberts A. (2006) Developper des approches d'aborder la mesure du developpement durable au Pays de Galles et d'en faire le suivi: une critique, Regional Studies 40, 534-535. Selon la loi de 1998 sur la gouvernance du Pays de Galles, l'Assemblee galloise s'est engagee a la promotion du developpement durable afin d'executer ses competences. Cet article cherche a examiner une selection 'approches que l'on explore au Pays de Galles afin de faire le suivi et de mesurer les progres que l'on a faits en faveur des objectifs du developpement durable. Ces approches constituent la tracee ecologique, l'indice du bien-etre economique durable, le compte satellite lie a l'environnement, et des tableaux d'echanges inter-industriels ecologiques. L'article montre qu'au Pays de Galles chacune des approches soulignees pose des problemes. Neanmoins, le developpement d'un compte satellite lie a l'environnement pourrait s'averer utile, vu que cette approche est liee aux autres approches dont on fait la critique, et etant donne que le compte satellite lie a l'environnement permet de rapporter plus facilement des facteurs ecologiques aux donnees globales conventionnelles comptabilisees sur le plan regional. On s'attend a ce que les resultats s'averent utiles pour d'autres regions au RU qui cherchent aussi des moyens de mesurerles progres en faveur du developpement durable et d'en faire le suivi. Developpement durable, Pays de Galles, Mesure et Suivi Munday M. und Roberts A. (2006) Entwicklun on Ansatzen zur Messung und Uberwachung nachhaltiger Entwicklun n Wales: eine Besprechung, Regional Studies 40, 534-535. Laut Gesetz der Regierung von Wales vom Jahre 1998 ist die Regierung von Wales dazu verpflichtet, bei der Ausubung von Pflichten Entwicklung zu fordern. Dieser Aufsatz untersucht eine Auswahl von Ansatzen, die in Wales untersucht wurden, um Fortschritte in Richtung nachhaltiger Entwicklungsziele zu uberwachen und zu beurteilen. Bei diesen Ansatzen handelt es sich um okologische 'Fussspuren', den Index nachhaltigen, wirtschaftlichen Wohlergehens, die Umweltsatelittenaufzeichnung und die Umweltsaufwand/Ertragstabellen. Der Aufsatz zeigt, dass es in Wales mit jedem der umrissenen Ansatze Probleme gibt, dass die Aufstellung einer Satelliten gesteuerten Umweltaufzeichnung sich jedoch nutzlich erweisen konnte,.wobei dieser Ansatz in Verbindung mit bereits besprochenen Ansatzen gesehen werden sollte, und die Satellitenaufzeichnung es gestatten wurde, Umweltfaktoren leichter mit Kombinationen konventioneller regionaler Berichterstattungen zu verbinden. Man erwartet,dass diese Befunde anderen Regionen des UK sachdienlich sind, die ebenso Methoden der Uberwachung und Messung des Fortschritts zur nachhaltigen Entwicklung anstreben. Nachhaltige Entwicklung, Wales, Messung und Uberwachung Munday M. y Roberts A. (2006) Enfoque e desarrollo para medir y supervisar el desarrollo sostenible en Gales: una revision, Regional Studies 40, 534-535. Bajo la ley de 1998 del Gobierno de Gales, el Gobierno de la Asamblea de Gales se comprometio a fomentar el desarrollo sostenible en el ejercicio de sus funciones. En este articulo examinamos una serie de enfoques que se estan estudiando en Gales para supervisar y medir el progreso en funcion de los objetivos de desarrollo sostenible. Estos enfoques son la huella ecologica, el indice del bienestar en la economia sostenible, la cifra medioambiental a vista de satelite y las tablas de Input-Output sobre medio ambiente. Aqui demostramos que en Gales existen problemas con cada uno de los enfoques destacados pero que el desarrollo de una cifra medioambiental por satelite podria ser muy util dado que este enfoque esta relacionado con otros ya revisados y con la cifra por satelite que nos permita conectar facilmente los factores medioambientales a agregados de cifras regionales mas convencionales. Se preve que los resultados sean relevantes a otras regiones britanicas que tambien necesitan metodos para supervisar y medir el progreso hacia un desarrollo sostenible. Desarrollo sostenible, Gales, Medicion y supervisionSustainable development, Wales, Measuring and monitoring,
Regional Winners and Losers From Recent Trends in Utility Rationalization
No full textAn important element of the economic strategy of successive UK governments since the early 1980s has been the privatization of state assets, especially the nationalized industries. Like a number of other policy initiatives introduced initially in the UK, this has been progessively adopted across other parts of the developed world in the following years. However, although there has been an extensive literature on such aspects of this movement as the forms of new ownership adopted, the costs and benefits to users, suppliers and taxpayers, and on the wider implications of these changes, the spatial dimensions to these developments have received relatively scant attention. The article by Peter Gripaios and Max Munday in this issue of Debates and Surveys attempts to explore not only the initial aspects of the privatization of the utilities, in particular, but also, more significantly, the recent trends in their subsequent rationalization. They demonstrate that there have been profound changes in all sectors, but that the biggest effects have been relatively concentrated at different levels in the urban hierarchy, with winners and losers located according to certain spatial factors. The further impacts of these changes on the ability of some regions to promote indigenous economic development echo much of the literature on branch plants, on the concentration of power in certain enterprises and localities, and on the vicious and virtuous circles of growth and decline.
The pirate, or, The sisters of Burgh Westra : a tale of the islands of Shetland and Orkney ; epitomized from the celebrated novel of the same title written by the author of Waverly /
No full textHand-coloured frontispiece probably by Robert Cruikshank.Hand-coloured frontispiece in four panels (together 14.1 x 18.4 cm), each with its own caption. Pub. Jan. 28, 1822, by Dean & Munday, Threadneedle Street.Frontispiece only.Mode of access: Internet.Copy in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections: 1 in a collection of 57 title pages and frontispieces from 1820 to 1828 that represent a better technique than some earlier examples as the strong colours are not applied as carelessly as some of the earlier and cheaper booklets. Unnumbered; accession number: 359087
Assessing the Impacts of Foreign Manufacturing on Regional Economies: The Cases of Wales, Scotland and the West Midlands
No full textBRAND S., HILL S. and MUNDAY M. (2000) Assessing the impacts of foreign manufacturing on regional economies: the cases of Wales, Scotland and the West Midlands, Reg. Studies 34, 343-355. This paper examines the direct and indirect contributions made by foreign manufacturing companies to the regional economies of Wales, Scotland and the West Midlands. Survey data derived from foreign manufacturers in each region were used in conjunction with regional input-output tables to assess the comparative contributions of defined foreign and domestically owned sectors to regional value added. The analyses are a starting point for the more accurate targeting of regional resources to industry sectors in the respective regional economies. BRAND S., HILLS S. et MUNDAY M. (2000) Evaluer les retombées de l'industrie étrangère sur les économies régionales: étude de cas du Pays de Galles, de l'Ecosse et des West Midlands, Reg. Studies 34, 343-355. Cet article cherche ¤ a examiner les rôles direct et indirect joué par les entreprises industrielles étrangères dans les économies régionales du Pays de Galles, de l'Ecosse et des West Midlands. A partir des données provenant d'une enquête auprès des industriels étrangers situés dans chaque région, conjointement avec des tableaux d'échanges intersectoriels, on évalue le rôle comparatif dans la valeur ajoutée régionale de quelques secteurs ¤ a capital étranger ou domestique bien définis. Ces analyses constituent un premier pas dans le ciblage plus juste des ressources régionales affectées aux secteurs industriels dans les économies régionales en question. BRAND S., HILLS S. und MUNDAY M. (2000) Beurteilung der Auswirkung ausländischer Herstellung auf Regionalwirtschaften: der Fall Wales, Schottland und westliches Mittelland, Reg. Studies 34, 343-355. Dieser Aufsatz untersucht den direkten und den indirekten Beitrag ausländischer Firmen der herstellenden Industrie auf die Regionalwirtschaften von Wales. Schottland und dem westlichen Mittelland des Vereinigten Königreichs. Daten von Umfragen unter ausländischen Herstellern in jeder dieser Regionen wurden in Verbindung mit regionalen Aufwands-und Ertragstabellen dazu benutzt, die vergleichsweisen Beiträge bestimmter ausländischer und im Inlandbesitz befindlicher Sektoren auf regionalen Mehrwert hin zu bewerten. Die Analysen stellen einen Ausgangspunkt für ein genaueres Abzielen auf regionale Reserven für Industriesektoren in den jeweiligen Regionalwirtschaften dar.Foreign Manufacturing, Input-OUTPUT Tables, Economic Impacts,
Changes in Manufacturing Linkage Patterns in Scotland and Wales: Hollowing Out and Foreign Direct Investment?
No full textTrends in inward investment in Scotland and Wales have influenced manufacturing’s inter-linkages with the local economy in different ways. The paper shows that there could be a hollowing out of the manufacturing sector in these regional economies which is linked to trends in inward investment.
Responsibility for regional waste generation: A single region extended input-output analysis with uni-directional trade flows
No full textThe paper uses a regional input-output (IO) framework and data derived on waste generation by industry to examine regional accountability for waste generation. In addition to estimating a series of industry output-waste coefficients, the paper considers two methods for waste attribution but focuses first on one (trade endogenised linear attribution system (TELAS)) that permits a greater focus on private and public final consumption as the main exogenous driver of waste generation. Second, the paper uses a domestic technology assumption (DTA) to consider a regional ‘waste footprint’ where local consumption requirements are assumed to be met through domestic production.waste attribution; regional economy; input-output analysis; Wales
Linking Innovative Potential to SME Performance: An Assessment of Enterprises in Industrial South Wales
No full textThe attraction of inward investment from the UK and from overseas was the main focus of regional development policy in Wales for much of the 1970s and 1980s. Whilst Wales has been particularly successful in attracting foreign enterprise, the contribution of new investors to improving longer term regional economic prospects has been questioned at several levels. With concerns over inward investor stability, embeddedness, and contribution to local value added, increasing weight has been given to the encouragement, and development of innovative indigenous SMEs in the Welsh economy. General and sectoral initiatives to encourage SME development and innovation in Wales have also taken place against a background of historically low levels of new firm formation in the region, together with the presence of factors expected to hinder SME growth including low levels of capital availability. Ultimately, it is hoped that a strongly performing indigenously controlled and innovative SME sector will go some way to improving regional growth prospects, and hence play a role in reducing the GDP per capita gap between Wales and the UK. During the 1990s a series of research and consultancy studies in Wales have been undertaken seeking to audit SME activities, define needs and identify market failures in provision of information and services. These have formed the basis of revised policy and then for new resource directions emanating at the European, regional and local levels. Encouraging innovative activity has been at the forefront of the network of initiatives currently underway in Wales. New initiatives have often been instituted without a clear appreciation of the nature of innovation, and how innovative activities link to innovative outputs and then feed through to improved business performance. This paper examines the link between innovative activity, outcomes and the performance of SMEs in Wales. A range of European, UK and locally developed initiatives in Wales seek to encourage innovative activity in indigenous SMEs. However, it is the contention of this paper that these initiatives have often been instituted without a clear appreciation of how, if, and which innovative activities feed through to improved business performance. The paper offers a general method of assessing the innovative potential (the configuration of management practices, capabilities, internal and external linkages facilitating the generation of appropriation of ideas) of manufacturing SMEs. This then leads on to an examination of how far innovative potential is connected to operational and general business performance. The paper describes how the model was developed and used to assess the innovative potential of a sample of manufacturing SMEs in Industrial South Wales, and how far the innovative potential can be linked to improved operational and business performance. The introduction to the paper reviews current literature on innovation in SMEs, and demonstrates how far recent studies have succeeded in measuring, and then linking innovative inputs of SMEs to innovative outputs and firm performance. The second section builds upon the review to develop a working model of an innovative SME. Innovation is considered not only in terms of new product or process development but more generally as practice. The model reveals the innovative firm as one that identifies, interprets, and applies knowledge effectively, and as appropriate throughout the organisation. The model described represents a synthesis of previous research. Key factors in the model include strategy and the techniques and practices deployed to facilitate the development and appropriation of ideas for innovation. Broadly this focuses on SME commitment to innovation, and management practices supporting this commitment. The third section describes how the model was operationalised into an auditing tool, and then used to assess the innovative potential of a sample of manufacturing SMEs in Industrial South Wales. The fourth section summarises the results from the initial research programme, and in particular, considers whether the unique operating structures usually associated with SMEs hinder or facilitate the adoption of new structures for organisational learning. Moreover the section examines whether the existence of certain configurations of practices coincide with improved business performance and operational efficiencies. The conclusions consider these results in the context of the directions being adopted by current regional SME policy initiatives in Industrial South Wales.
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