Regional Development in Northern Europe: Peripherality, Marginality and Border Issues

289 Pages·2012·2.203 MB·English

by  Mike Danson, Peter de Souza

Regional Development in Northern
Europe
This book is dedicated to the theme ‘Peripherality, marginality and border issues’.
It has developed out of interests and concerns over the position and attention
given to such regions across the globe, but particularly within a Europe where
cities and city-regions are dominating the research and policy agenda. With its
launch in 2008, the topic has received a very significant interest and has gathered
an initial network of well over 150 scientists and practitioners and is joined daily
by new interested parties. This volume complements the network’s aims of bring-
ing together facilities, expertise, experience and resources focused on peripheral
and marginal communities and economies. The book will support the dissemina-
tion of research from across northern Europe, foster knowledge exchange and
contribute to more significant cooperation across borders.
Much research and attention has been paid to the regions in the core of Europe,
and especially to cities, city-regions and old industrial areas and to some of their
underlying characteristics – such as clusters, agglomeration phenomena gener-
ally and regional innovation systems. In this environment, the specific features of
peripheral and marginal regions have been relatively neglected while many actors
located in non-core areas of Europe face obstacles and challenges in applying
locally the theories and strategies appropriate to the centre. To address this, there
is a clear need for a theoretical and methodological foundation complemented by
a systematisation of best-case and worst-case practices.
This book draws on work from across northern Europe and is parallel and
complementary to the network itself. By establishing an intellectual and practi-
cally orientated framework and platform, and by bringing together contributions
defining the state-of-the-art and potential development paths in the field, it is the
first volume to offer a systematic and scientific view from the periphery.
Mike Danson is Professor of Scottish and Regional Economics at the University
of the West of Scotland, UK.
Peter de Souza is Försteamanuensis at Hedmark University College, Norway.
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Regional Development in
Northern Europe
Peripherality, marginality and border
issues
Edited by Mike Danson and
Peter de Souza
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Regional development in Northern Europe : peripherality, marginality and
border issues / edited by Mike Dawson and Peter de Souza.
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1. Regional planning--Europe, Northern. 2. Regional economics--
Europe, Northern. 3. Europe, Northern--Economic conditions--Regional
disparities. I. Dawson, Mike, 1953- II. De Souza, Peter.
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Contents
Illustrations xi
List of contributors xiii
Acknowledgements xvii
1 Periphery and marginality: definitions, theories, methods
and practice 1
MIKE DANSON AND PETER DE SOUZA
2 The development of the periphery in the experience economy 16
ANNE LORENTZEN
3 Regionalisation and marginalisation: bridging old and new
divisions in regional governance 30
TASSILO HERRSCHEL
4 Re-thinking ‘peripherality’ in the context of a knowledge-intensive,
service-dominated economy 49
MIKE CRONE
5 Conceptualising marginalisation in cities and regions 65
STEPHEN SYRETT
6 Dynamics of peripherality 78
KLAUS LINDEGAARD
7 Nations and regions in Northern Europe 98
MIKE DANSON AND PETER DE SOUZA
8 Can peripheral regions innovate? 118
SARA DAVIES, RONA MICHIE AND HEIDI VIRONEN
9 Proximity and distributed innovations – innovations
‘in the shadow of the clusters’ 134
SVEIN BERGUM
10 Commercial counterurbanisation in the rural periphery 148
GARY BOSWORTH