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Overcoming Isolation

Information and Transportation Networks in Development Strategies for Peripheral Areas

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  • © 1995

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Editors:
  1. Harry Coccossis

    1. Department of Environmental Studies, University of the Aegean, Mytilini, Greece

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  2. Peter Nijkamp

    1. Department of Economics, Free University, HV Amsterdam, Netherlands

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Part of the book series: Advances in Spatial Science (ADVSPATIAL)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Isolation and Peripherality: The Role of Networks, Borders and Barriers

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Borders and Barriers in the New Europe: Impediments and Potentials of New Network Configurations

      • P. Nijkamp
      Pages 3-17

    3. Some Notes on Interconnectivity in Transport Networks

      • P. Rietveld
      Pages 18-28

    4. Accessibility and Peripheral Regions

      • R. Vickerman
      Pages 29-40

    5. Innovative Growth and Peripherality in the New European Territory

      • G. Kafkalas
      Pages 41-52

    6. Barriers in Network Performance in Border Areas

      • M. Giaoutzi, A. Stratigea
      Pages 53-73

    7. How to Overcome Barriers and Border Effects: Theoretical Elements

      • R. Ratti
      Pages 74-82

    8. International Migration in Europe: Overcoming Isolation and Distance Friction

      • P. Nijkamp, K. Spiess
      Pages 83-102

    9. Barriers and Bridges in Technology Transfer: Perspectives for Border Regions

      • M. van Geenhuizen
      Pages 103-126

  3. Empirical Studies on Information and Transport Networks in Europe

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127
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    2. Access to Telecommunication Networks: Regional Variations in Consumption Network Externalities

      • R. Capello, P. Nijkamp
      Pages 129-145

    3. Connectivity and Congestion on European Road Corridors

      • A. Reggiani, P. Nijkamp, G. Pepping
      Pages 146-167

    4. Bottlenecks In Trans Alpine Freight Transport: A Multicriteria Analysis on Future Brenner Corridor Alternatives

      • P. Freudensprung, P. Nijkamp, R.-J. Simons
      Pages 168-178

    5. Trade Effects of the Emerging Market Economies: A Study of the Transport Potential of the Rhine-Main-Danube Waterway

      • M. Fischer, C. Rammer
      Pages 179-194

    6. Prospects for the Conventional Passenger/Car Ferry in the Aegean

      • H. N. Psaraftis
      Pages 195-204

    7. Connectivity and Isolation in Transport Networks: A Policy Scenario Experiment for the Greek Island Economy

      • R. Zwier, P. Nijkamp, F. Hiemstra, K. van Montfort
      Pages 205-234

    8. Transport Networks and Insular Isolation

      • S. Kostopoulou
      Pages 235-253

    9. Overcoming Isolation and the Role of Transport: The Case of the Aegean Islands

      • G. A. Giannopoulos, G. Boulougaris
      Pages 254-268

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 270-272
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As European countries pursue a common effort towards establishing a European Union, various isolated -and consequently disadvantaged -regions are likely to face increasing competitive pressures due to their peripheral location. To assist such areas, regional, national and supranational bodies put much effort into developing transport and communication networks and linkages in order to ensure that such less favoured areas are better integrated in the broader European social and economic development process. This book addresses the issue of lagging development in various -mainly central and southern - European regions which are in a disadvantageous position as a result of their isolated 10cation.··The persisting problems of social and economic development in several European Union areas (e.g. islands, mountains, border areas) has turned the attention of policy-makers to "the critical importance of transport and (tele)communication linkages. The purpose of the book is to bring into perspective the role of transport and communications in regional policy for peripheral areas. This subject is currently of high priority, since the European Union through the Structural Funds interventions (i.e. the Community Support Frameworks) and the new Cohesion Fund relies heavily on transport and communication infrastructure investments to assist areas which are at a disadvantage due to their peripheral location and isolation. Furthermore, as the Union considers enlargement, some of these issues might be of wide European interest.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Environmental Studies, University of the Aegean, Mytilini, Greece

    Harry Coccossis

  • Department of Economics, Free University, HV Amsterdam, Netherlands

    Peter Nijkamp

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