ECMT Round Tables Transport and Economic Development
ECMT Round Tables Transport and Economic Development

Author: European Conference of Ministers of Transport

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2002-10-03

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9789282112984

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The linkage between transport and economic development is a highly contentious issue which has generated considerable debate and an abundant literature. There is a firmly-held belief among politicians that investment in transport infrastructure ...

Regions in Central Europe
Regions in Central Europe

Author: Sven Tägil

Publisher: C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 9781850655527

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The subjective term region and its theoretical implications are considered in the opening chapters of this text. The empirical section ranges in time from the appearance of the German stern duchies in the Middle Ages to cross-border co-operation in the Oder are today, and geographically from Baden-Wurttemberg in the west to Transylvania, Carpatho-Ruthenia and the Kalingrad enclave in the east. The contributors to the text highlight the complex problems of local identity and the centrality of culture in shaping notions of the region.

ECMT Round Tables Transport Economics Report of the One-Hundredth Round Table on Transport Economics Held in Paris on 2-3 June 1994
ECMT Round Tables Transport Economics Report of the One-Hundredth Round Table on Transport Economics Held in Paris on 2-3 June 1994

Author: European Conference of Ministers of Transport

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 1995-12-22

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 9282105555

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To mark its hundredth Round Table on transport economics, the ECMT decided to publish a special issue. Fifty European experts were asked to submit papers examining not only the major issues addressed by transport economics in the past, but also those that are likely to emerge in the future.

The Glance of Countess Hahn-Hahn (down the Danube)
The Glance of Countess Hahn-Hahn (down the Danube)

Author: Peter Esterhazy

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 1999-11

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9780810117600

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In The Glance of Countess Hahn-Hahn (down the Danube), Peter Esterhazy blends magic realism and travel narrative to dazzling effect. Esterhazy's hero is a professional Traveller, commissioned -- like Marco Polo by Kubla Khan -- to undertake a voyage of discovery and to prepare a travelogue about the Danube. Communicating his experiences through terse -- and at times surreal -- telegrams to his employer, the Traveller weaves a rich tapestry of narratives, evoking the dreamlike past and the precarious present of a disappearing world. Moving from the Black Forest to the Black Sea, Esterhazy takes the reader on a fascinating European journey of the imagination, down the Danube River, through Vienna, Budapest, and beyond the delta where the mighty river empties into the sea. Filled with allusion, fable, fantasy, history, and autobiography, The Glance of Countess Hahn-Hahn (down the Danube) is Peter Esterhazy at his scintillating, adventurous best.