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Competitive European Peripheries

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  • © 1995

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Editors:
  1. Heikki Eskelinen

    1. Karelian Institute, University of Joensuu, Joensuu, Finland

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  2. Folke Snickars

    1. Department of Infrastructure and Planning, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

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

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VIII
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  2. Competitive European Peripheries? An Introduction

    1. Competitive European Peripheries? An Introduction

      • Heikki Eskelinen, Folke Snickars
      Pages 1-14

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 259-272
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About this book

Europe's space is in a flux. Earlier cores and peripheries in Europe are experiencing a profound transformation. The driving forces include, amongst others, Western European economic and political integration, and Eastern European transition. We are also witnessing fundamental technological and organisational restructuring of industrial systems. Information technology and telecommunications are rapidly altering the requisites for comparative advantage. Peripherality is being determined more by access to networks than by geographical location. Economies of scale can be attained in distributed networks of production with good access to markets as well as in large agglomerations. Clearly, these changes also call for new perspectives in regional analysis. This book derives its impetus from an Advanced Summer institute in Regional Science which was arranged in Joensuu, Finland, in 1993 under the auspices of the European Regional Science Association. Some of the papers, which were discussed at the institute, were thoroughly revised for the present purpose. In addition, chapters on specific topics were specially written for the volume. In most contributions, the focus is on the Nordic countries and their internal peripheries. They form a particularly interesting case in assessing prospects for the multi-faceted centre-periphery confrontation in Europe.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Karelian Institute, University of Joensuu, Joensuu, Finland

    Heikki Eskelinen

  • Department of Infrastructure and Planning, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

    Folke Snickars

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Competitive European Peripheries

  • Editors: Heikki Eskelinen, Folke Snickars

  • Series Title: Advances in Spatial Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79955-6

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin · Heidelberg 1995

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-79957-0Published: 14 December 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-79955-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1430-9602

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-9375

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 271

  • Topics: Regional/Spatial Science, Geography, general

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