Globalization and Marginality in Geographical Space: Political, Economic and Social Issues of Development at the Dawn of New Millennium

ISBN-13: 9781138717824 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 324 str.

Heikki Jussila; Roser Majoral; Fernanda Delgado-Cravidao

Opis

This title was first published in 2001. An examination of globalization and marginality in geographical space. It discusses the issue of marginalization and the effects that economic globalization have on marginal and critical regions from the point of view of politics and policies and the shift from economic to social issues of development.

Spis treści

1: Introduction; 1: Effects of globalization; 2: Globalization, deregulation, marginalization: Where are we at the end of the millennium?; 3: Globalization and economic marginalization: North-South differences; 4: Great Plains settlement: Globalization and deregulation; 5: Southern Patagonia facing; 6: Managing integration and marginalization for the New Europe; 2: Policies and politics of change; 7: A Northern dimension for the European Union: Background and proposals; 8: Rural Northern Finland and EU-membership; 9: The Tuscany observatory of rural society development: A policy tool against spatial and information marginalization; 10: The deep rural context and micro-regional changes in Southern Portugal; 11: Unforeseen regional effects as a result of corporatization of government administrative bodies; 12: Consequences of regulation and deregulation in marginal and critical economies of the U.S. Pacific Northwest 1; 13: Deregulation and marginality: New public policies and new approaches to the planning of tourism; 3: From economic to social issues; 14: From economic marginality to the problems of ‘quality of life’; 15: The ‘old’ and ‘new’ forms of inequality: The case of Portugal; 16: Mill town without its mills: Preliminary assessment of the consequences of industrial abandonment; 17: Demographic factors contributing to regional imbalances in Spain; 18: Social neighbourhoods in peripheries; 19: People who were not there but are now!; 20: Child labour, the reverse of economic globalization in peripheral regions 1; 21: The plight of women in the margins of rural life in Africa: The case of Zimbabwe; 4: Conclusions and summary; 22: Conclusions and summary

O autorze

Heikki Jussila, Roser Majoral, Fernanda Delgado-Cravidao