Visions and Strategies in European Integration: A North European Perspective

ISBN-13: 9783642781803 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 290 str.

Lars Lundqvist; Lars O. Persson

Opis

The first years of the 90s have witnessed thorough political and economic changes in northern Europe. The long period of strong political separation between east and west and the less strong economic separation between the northern and southern sides of the Baltic Sea seemed to be replaced by far-reaching integration. There is no doubt that further integration will have additional impacts on the regional patterns in northern Europe. The amplitude and composition of these changes are difficult to project. In this volume a number of scholars in regional science and related disciplines (geography, economics, environmental and political sciences, planning) have brought together important material on the current processes that reshapes northern Europe. Visions andstrategies on local, national and supranational levels are penetrated in depth. A "mosaic" vision of the regional development pattern emerges highlighting the importance of cooperative and competitive strategies affecting the local conditions of European regions.

Spis treści

1 Visions and Strategies in European Integration — An Introduction.- I Integration and Regional Development.- 2 Perspectives of Regional Economic Development Around the Baltic.- 3 Regional Development in Western Europe: A Mosaic Model.- 4 Regionalism or Federalism? Two Visions of a New Europe.- 5 European Integration and the Effects on Regional Development in Norway.- II Integration in the Network Economy.- 6 European Integration and Foreign Investment: The Regional Implications.- 7 Empirical Investigations of Political Interregional Economic Development.- 8 Commercial Relations in the Baltic Rim Region in an Integration/Network Perspective.- 9 Location and Internationalization of Small Firms.- III Integration and Environmental Sustain Ability.- 10 What about Nature in Regional Science?.- 11 Baltic Region Integration in & through Modelling: Perception, Wishes and Realities.- 12 Transport, Logistics, Environment and Integration in the Baltic Sea Area.- 13 Traffic and Environment in Nordic Capitals.- IV Peripheries and Border Regions in European Integration.- 14 Ways to Develop the Competitiveness of the Periphery: The Example of Ireland.- 15 Development Strategies in the Southern European Periphery: Comparisons with the Northern Periphery.- 16 Changing Images of the Peripheiy.- 17 The German-Danish Border Region: Does the Border Matter and Can It Be Overcome?.- Author index.- Contributors.

O autorze

In this volume a number of scholars in regional science and related disciplines (geography, economics, environmental and political sciences, planning) have brought together important material on the current processes that reshape northern Europe. Visions and strategies on local, national and supranational levels are penetrated in depth.