Visions and Strategies in European Integration

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-IX

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2. Visions and Strategies in European Integration — an Introduction

   1. Visions and Strategies in European Integration — an Introduction

      • Lars Lundqvist, Lars Olof Persson

      Pages 1-16

3. Integration and Regional Development

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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   2. Perspectives of Regional Economic Development Around the Baltic

      • Karin Peschel

      Pages 19-31

   3. Regional Development in Western Europe: A Mosaic Model

      • Sven Illeris

      Pages 32-50

   4. Regionalism or Federalism? Two Visions of a New Europe

      • Noralv Veggeland

      Pages 51-60

   5. European Integration and the Effects on Regional Development in Norway

      • Knut Halvorsen

      Pages 61-78

4. Integration in the Network Economy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79

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   2. European Integration and Foreign Investment: The Regional Implications

      • John Bachtler, Keith Clement, Philip Raines

      Pages 81-96

   3. Empirical Invertigations of Political Interregional Economic Development

      • Sakari Jutila, Wilbur R. Maki

      Pages 97-106

   4. Commercial Relations in the Baltic Rim Region in an Integration/Network Perspective

      • Andreas P. Cornett, Søren P. Iversen

      Pages 107-130

   5. Location and Internationalization of Small Firms

      • Poul Rind Christensen, Leif Lindmark

      Pages 131-151

5. Integration and Environmental Sustainability

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153

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   2. What about Nature in Regional Science?

      • Torsten Hägerstrand

      Pages 155-161

   3. Baltic Region Integration in & through Modelling: Perception, Wishes and Realities

      • Jan W. Owsiński

      Pages 162-174

   4. Transport, Logistics, Environment and Integration in the Baltic Sea Area

      • Jussi Raumolin

      Pages 175-192

   5. Traffic and Environment in Nordic Capitals

      • Lars Lundqvist

      Pages 193-206

6. Peripheries and Border Regions in European Integration

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 207-207

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   2. Ways to Develop the Competitiveness of the Periphery: The Example of Ireland

      • Micheál Ó. Cinnéide

      Pages 209-224

   3. Development Strategies in the Southern European Periphery: Comparisons with the Northern Periphery

      • Chris Jensen-Butler

      Pages 225-244

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.

• Baltic Sea
• Europäische Integration
• Import
• Political Science
• Politikwissenschaft
• Regionalwissenschaft
• environment
• geography
• regional development
• regional economics
• regional science
• traffic
• transport

• Research Group on Regional Analysis (FORA), Department of Regional Planning, The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

  Lars Lundqvist, Lars Olof Persson

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