Globalization and marginality in geographical space : political, economic and social issues of development in the new millennium /
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| Imprint: | Aldershot ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2001. |
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| Description: | xix, 304 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Dynamics of marginal and critical regions |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4480289 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- 1.. Introduction
- Part 1. Effects of globalization
- 2.. Globalization, deregulation, marginalization: Where are we at the end of the millennium?
- 3.. Globalization and economic marginalization: North-South differences
- 4.. Great Plains settlement: Globalization and deregulation
- 5.. Southern Patagonia facing globalization
- 6.. Managing integration and marginalization for the New Europe
- Part 2. Policies and politics of change
- 7.. A Northern dimension for the European Union: Background and proposals
- 8.. Rural Northern Finland and EU-membership
- 9.. The Tuscany observatory of rural society development: A policy tool against spatial and information marginalization
- 10.. The deep rural context and micro-regional changes in Southern Portugal
- 11.. Unforeseen regional effects as a result of corporatization of government administrative bodies
- 12.. Consequences of regulation and deregulation in marginal and critical economies of the U.S. Pacific Northwest
- 13.. Deregulation and marginality: New public policies and new approaches to the planning of tourism
- Part 3. From economic to social issues
- 14.. From economic marginality to the problems of 'quality of life'
- 15.. The 'old' and 'new' forms of inequality: The case of Portugal
- 16.. Mill town without its mills: Preliminary assessment of the consequences of industrial abandonment
- 17.. Demographic factors contributing to regional imbalances in Spain
- 18.. Social neighbourhoods in peripheries: A Finnish-Swedish comparison
- 19.. People who were not there but are now! Aboriginality in Tasmania
- 20.. Child labour, the reverse of economic globalization in peripheral regions
- 21.. The plight of women in the margins of rural life in Africa: The case of Zimbabwe
- Part 4. Conclusions and summary
- 22.. Conclusions and summary