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This book explains the recurrence of regional planning and of initiatives in regional governance, in a wide range of advanced industrial countries.

Providing a new picture of the socio-economic map of central Europe after several years of transformation, and focusing in particular on Poland, this book gives an account of the major problems of regional restructuring.

This book tackles two issues: sustainable environmental development and urban development. It brings together the insights of environmental science, the social science and management.

Focusing on the issues of enterprise development and the regional dimensions of small-firm growth, this book explores the literature of this area.

This book address key issues of understanding in contemporary economic geography and local economic policy making in cities and regions in the advanced economies.

In recent decades, the importance of creative cluster development has gained recognition from national and regional governments. Increasingly, governments have been investing in initiatives and urban development plans that aim to create or support localized creative industries.

This book brings together political scientists and geographers to create a mutually fertilizing dialogue, which will advance our understanding of territorial designs. The chapters originally published as a special issue in Territory, Politics, Governance.

Discussions of the illicit and the illegal have tended to be somewhat restricted in their disciplinary range and have been largely confined to the literatures of anthropology, criminology, policing and, to an extent, political science. This book is a multidisciplinary volume that aims to open up these debates.

Through a selection of accessible theoretical, methodological and empirical chapters, this book explores the connections between regional development and history.

The new EU Cohesion Policy is one of the largest integrated development policies in the Western world, and one of the largest of such programmes anywhere in the world. The reforms to the EU Cohesion Policy contain many different elements each of which interlink in order to provide a cohesive overall framework. Some of the key elements in the reforms, however, relate to the conditionalities employed and their effects on policy governance and the control mechanism, the smart specialization approach to policy prioritization and resource allocation, the underlying place-based logic of the policy, and the overall results orientation and evaluation emphasis of the policy. In each of the areas of the EU Cohesion Policy reforms, many different scholars from the fields of regional studies, regional science and economic geography have played important roles in shaping the new policy, and the chapters here highlight these increasing interactions between the policy and academic spheres of debate. The collection of essays in this book each deal with specific aspects of these critical elements of the Cohesion Policy reforms. In particular, they examine some of the strengths and weaknesses of these individual elements and allowing for a better understanding of the origins and backgrounds of many of the ideas underpinning these reforms. This book was previously published as a special issue of Regional Studies.

This edited volume examines how Industrial Policy can rebalance economies, help support sustainable development and catalyse new technologies and innovations whilst learning lessons from past experience and debate. It was originally published as a special issue of Policy Studies.

This book identifies and analyses the key post-1990 developments across the New Member States at the sub-national and national levels, with frequent country-level and regional comparisons.

Plenty has been written on the competitiveness of megacities, capital cities and regional hubs. Cities in developing countries have not yet received the same attention ¿ this book fills that gap. An international team of academics have compiled a comprehensive study of the competitiveness of cities in the developing world.

This book explores the changing national and international connections within China and between China and other parts of the world, and their importance for understanding the past, current, and future developments of the Chinese economy.

The contributions included in this book explore the emergence of entrepreneurship policies from a transatlantic comparative perspective and address different aspects of entrepreneurship policies including local entrepreneurship policies and the relationship between knowledge-based industries and entrepreneurship policies.

This book is designed to broaden and deepen the understanding of the current and future structure and geography of the information technology industry in the Asia Pacific region.

This volume takes a closer look at the impact of manufacturing - notably automotive - plant closures in the UK (Birmingham) and Australia (Adelaide) in recent years and policy responses to those closures.

The conceptual and analytical focus provided by the `region¿ is in question because of relational and multi-scalar approaches, new methodologies and techniques and new modes and geographies of governance, policy and politics. This book provides a guide to contemporary debates and showcases contributions from the leading voices reflecting upon the current issues and debates.

Current debates about city-regions tend to renew long-standing arguments that policy-making ought to be organised around more functional urban areas. This collection draws on evidence from the US, Australia, the UK and the Netherlands to focus on how city region spaces and their governance institutions are changing. This book was originally published as a Special Issue of Regional Studies.

This book, divided into five parts, examines in detail the changes and the challenge for policy makers.

Persistent high employment and growing labour market inequality have become entrenched features of many European countries. This edited collection of papers focuses on the regional and local dimensions of these problems across Europe.

This book is the first comparative analysis and assessment of metropolitan areas and their strategic planning for almost two decades.

The existence and persistence of regional disparities between European regions require context-tailored policies to promote structural change. This book explores the congruence between place-based development and regional competitiveness in the EU context.

The world has changed profoundly since the publication of the influential book Technopoles of the World. As policy-makers and practitioners attempt to harness science, technology and innovation to create dynamic and vibrant cities many wonder how relevant Manuel Castells and Peter Hall¿s messages are today. Twenty years later, this book returns to their concepts and practices to update their message for the 21st century.

The social dynamics of innovation networks captures the important role of trust, social capital, institutions and norms and values in the creation of knowledge in innovation networks. In doing so, this book connects to a long-standing debate on the socio-spatial context of innovation in economic geography, which is usually referred to as the Territorial Models of Innovation (TIMs) literature.

There is a broad and long-standing debate on possible solutions to the regional vulnerabilities of globalisation. This book brings together scholars from economics, geography, sociology, organisation studies, innovation studies, and complexity theory to offer insights that will aid in the creation of new development paths for the region's economy.

This volume offers the results of five years of cutting-edge empirical and theoretical analysis of changes in Canadian regional development and the potential of new approaches for improving the well-being of Canadian communities and regions, with an emphasis on rural regions.