Overview
- Provides additional evidence about the activities and policies that may reverse marginalization process
- Illustrates the importance of social innovation in coping with marginality
- Includes diverse cases of responses to marginality from several European countries, Canada, and Australia
Part of the book series: Perspectives on Geographical Marginality (PGEO, volume 5)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Social Innovation as a Tool for Demarginalization
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Regions, Regional Potentials, Regional Development and Geographical Marginality
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Policies, Actions and Other Responses to Marginality
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Keywords
- Geographical marginality
- Marginalisation
- Regional development
- Rural areas
- Social innovation
- Economically weak regions
- Local revitalization
- Agro-ecology transition
- Social enterpreneurship
- France
- Canada
- Switzerland
- Poland
- Australia
- Sparcely populated rural areas
- Finland
- Desolate vollages
- Polish-Czech borderland
- Motorway construction
About this book
This book examines regional responses to marginality by highlighting social innovation, local capacity and new path formations in what are often seen as economically weak regions where policy and institutional considerations play a key role. Divided into three parts, it covers a wide range of topics related to geographical marginality from various angles, on both regional and local scales. The first part focuses on the role of social innovation and illustrates the themes of social innovation and new localism, local revitalization and social entrepreneurship. The second part then addresses the issues of economic responses, valorization, resource use and local action in response to marginalization. Lastly, the third part explores various policies and measures taken to respond to marginality and intensify regional development in marginal areas.
Reviews
“The book's contribution to the scientific literature in this scientific field is important, making it a good and useful read. Additionally, the content of the book is well structured, and the text is easy to read, including illustrations with maps, schemes, and tables, which make it accessible not only to researchers and policy-makers but also to everyone who wants to understand the various responses to marginalization and peripheralization.” (Gabriel Camara, Papers in Regional Science, Vol. 99 (6), 2020)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Etienne Nel is a Professor at the Geography Department of the University of Otago in New Zealand. His research interests include regional and local economic development, and small town and community development in Africa and Australasia. He chaired the IGU Commission on Marginalization, Globalization, and Regional and Local Responses from 2004 to 2012. He was the Managing Editor of the New Zealand Geographer (2012–18) and is currently the Commissioning Editor for the Journal of Geography in Higher Education & for Local Economy. He has co-authored or co-edited 11 books, 6 conference proceedings, 48 book chapters and 112 articles.
Stanko Pelc is a Professor of Geography at the University of Primorska in Koper, Slovenia. He studied at the Faculty of Arts, and at the Faculty of Architecture, Construction and Geodesy (M.Sc.) at the University of Ljubljana and the Faculty of Science at the University of Zagreb (Ph.D.). He has been involved in rural development and the planningof transportation systems, and he has taught at the University of Ljubljana and University of Maribor. He currently teaches at the Departments of Pre-school and Primary Education as well as at the Geography Department at the University of Primorska in Koper. His research interests cover many different fields, such as demography, transportation geography, local and regional development, marginality and marginalization, especially its social dimension and educational context. He is (co)author of 24 scientific articles, 22 published scientific conference contributions and 29 parts or chapters in monographs. He has edited four books and is the author of two books and one university textbook (in Slovenian).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Responses to Geographical Marginality and Marginalization
Book Subtitle: From Social Innovation to Regional Development
Editors: Etienne Nel, Stanko Pelc
Series Title: Perspectives on Geographical Marginality
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51342-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-51341-2Published: 14 August 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-51344-3Published: 15 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-51342-9Published: 13 August 2020
Series ISSN: 2367-0002
Series E-ISSN: 2367-0010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 183
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 30 illustrations in colour
Topics: Economic Geography, Human Geography, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning