A number of new books written by SPP faculty members recently came out.

Dean Kingsley Haynes, along with SPP Professor Kenneth Button and two other colleagues—David A Hensher and Peter Stopher, both of The University of Sydney in Australia—edited the new, fifth edition of “The Handbook of Transport Geography and Spatial Systems” (Elsevier, 2005). The volume focuses on the dynamic interactions between transport and the physical, economic, and human geographies it weaves through. As a member of the National Research Council’s Committee on Ecological Impacts of Road Density, Dean Haynes contributed to a new book called “Assessing and Managing the Ecological Impacts of Paved Roads” (The National Academies Press, 2005).

Dean Kingsley Haynes

“Globalization for Development: Trade, Capital, Aid, Migration, and Ideas” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006) is a new volume co-authored by Professor Kenneth Reinert, who collaborated with his colleague Ian Goldin, the Vice President of External Affairs and United Nations Affairs for the World Bank. The book provides a comprehensive introduction to key aspects of globalization—trade, finance, aid, and migration—and how they relate to poverty and development. It has been praised by Joseph E. Stiglitz, the 2001 Nobel Laureate in Economics, who called it “essential reading for anyone interested in globalization and development. It provides important new insights and perspectives into how global flows of finance, trade, migrants and ideas shape development and advances the debate by identifying urgently needed policy changes for a more inclusive globalization.”

SPP Professor Tojo Thatchenkery

Tojo Thatchenkery and Roger Stough are the co-authors of “Information Communication Technology and Economic Development: Learning from the Indian Experience” (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006), The book uses the example of India—one of the most visible participants in the information communication technology (ICT) industry and one of the world’s fastest growing economies—to talk about the complex process of globalization; and shows how the generation and circulation of intellectual capital in the U.S. and India have both increased productivity in the U.S. and facilitated economic development in India.

Professor Arnauld Nicogossian co-edited “Space Biology and Medicine” (American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics, 2005) a four-volume joint publication of NASA and the Russian Academy of Sciences, in Russian and English versions. The final volume was released in 2005. More than 100 authors from both Russia and the U.S. contributed. Nicogossian shared the work with Oleg Gazenko, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.