Regions and Cities
About the Book Series
In today’s globalised, knowledge-driven and networked world, regions and cities have assumed heightened significance as the interconnected nodes of economic, social and cultural production, and as sites of new modes of economic governance and policy experimentation. This book series brings together incisive and critically engaged international and interdisciplinary research on this resurgence of regions and cities, and should be of interest to geographers, economists, sociologists, political scientists and cultural scholars, as well as to policy-makers involved in regional and urban development.
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About the Regional Studies Association (RSA)
The RSA is the global community for regional and urban research, development and policy. As a learned society for regional studies, it provides an authoritative voice for researchers, students and practitioners from disciplines including economics, geography, political science, planning, urban sociology, transport planning and other fields. The RSA delivers its charitable aims through knowledge exchange and policy engagement activities, its portfolio of journals and publications, its programme of conferences and events and its worldwide territorial and research networks. The RSA also runs a grant funding programme and recognises good practice in regional studies through its awards. It is an inclusive, diverse and environmental responsible organisation. For more information go to www.regionalstudies.org
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Foreign Direct Investment and the Global Economy: Corporate and Institutional Dynamics of Global-Localisation
1st Edition
Edited
By Jeremy Alden, Nicholas F. Phelps
September 13, 2002
With the emergence of a truly global marketplace, regions now face far greater competition in attracting outside investment, and multinational companies have to consider local conditions on many levels before choosing to invest. Foreign Direct Investment and the Global Economy looks at the pattern ...
Metropolitan Planning in Britain: A Comparative Study
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Roberts, Kevin Thomas, Gwyndaf Williams
September 13, 2002
Metropolitan Planning in Britain is the first comparative analysis and assessment of metropolitan areas and their strategic planning for almost two decades. Changes in population distribution, styles of local government, business practices, and attitudes to the environment have all had an impact on...
Multinationals and European Integration: Trade, Investment and Regional Development
1st Edition
By Nicholas A. Phelps
September 13, 2002
This book examines the role of the multinational firms in processes of European integration. It is primarily concerned with the implications of market integration and industrial restructuring for peripheral European regions. Nicholas Phelps argues that, because of the complex relationship between ...
Regional Development Agencies in Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Charlotte Damborg, Mike Danson, Henrik Halkier
September 13, 2002
In the past decade Europe has seen much change, and at the same time the importance of the regional perspectives has significantly increased. Regional Development Agencies in Europe brings together experiences of Regional and Development Agencies throughout Europe to provide material for the first ...
Regional Development Strategies: A European Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Jeremy Alden, Philip Boland
September 13, 2002
Regional development strategies have become the focus of attention in many countries in the 1990s. This textbook provides a conceptual, theoretical and empirical analysis of regional development strategies within a European context It examines the various regional development strategies which are ...
Regional Development in the 1990s: The British Isles in Transition
1st Edition
Edited
By Ron Martin, Peter Townroe
September 13, 2002
This book documents the changing nature and challenge of regional development in Britain and Ireland in the final decade of this century. In the first half of this book, region-by-region profiles review the experience of the eighties and reflect on the present climate, assessing problems and ...
Regional Innovation Strategies: The Challenge for Less-Favoured Regions
1st Edition
Edited
By Kevin Morgan, Claire Nauwelaers
September 13, 2002
Regional Innovation Strategiesoffers the first comprehensive analysis of the new wave of innovation-oriented regional policies. It draws conclusions from the European Regional Technology Plans and Regional Innovation Strategies, both in old industrialised areas and in regions where development is ...
Regional Policy in Europe
1st Edition
By S.S Artobolevskiy
September 13, 2002
Based on the author's extensive research in the field, this book analyzes regional policy for the whole of Europe. Comparing East and West, it offers a new model of regional policy and gives an overview of the direction that it may take in Europe as a whole. Topics covered include: the evaluation ...
Restructuring Industry and Territory: The Experience of Europe's Regions
1st Edition
Edited
By Anna Giunta, Arnoud Lagendijk, Andy Pike
September 13, 2002
Examining the current trends in regional economic development in Europe, Restructuring Industry and Territory explores ways in which the restructuring of industry and territorial development relate to each other, their emergent interdependency and role in economic development. The book argues that ...
The Coherence of EU Regional Policy: Contrasting Perspectives on the Structural Funds
1st Edition
Edited
By John Bachtler, Ivan Turok
September 13, 2002
This book brings together a rich selection of up-to-date practical experience of EU regional policy from across Europe. It provides different perspectives on the design and operation of regional development strategies under the Structural Funds, from people closely involved in studying, managing or...
The Determinants of Small Firm Growth: An Inter-Regional Study in the United Kingdom 1986-90
1st Edition
Edited
By Eric Hanvey, Richard Barkham, Graham Gudgin, Mark Hart
September 13, 2002
One of the most striking trends in economic development since the 1970s has been the rising importance of the small firm. Focusing on the issues of enterprise development and the regional dimensions of small-firm growth, this book explores the literature of this area. Moving from an analysis of ...
The Regional Dimension of Transformation in Central Europe
1st Edition
By Grzegorz Gorzelak
September 13, 2002
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. The author identifies the opportunities and problems faced by particular ...