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1 online resource (363 pages) |
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Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Ser |
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Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Ser
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Introduction; PART I Central and Eastern Europe: the dynamics of development and policy responses; 1 The puzzles of convergence: Europe's economic history in the twentieth century; 2 The competitiveness of Central and Eastern European countries: an analysis of the legal environment; 3 Regional development dynamics in Central and Eastern European countries; 4 Challenges for national regional policies in the new Member States |
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5 Policy lessons from the reconstruction of East Germany -- the former German Democratic RepublicPART II Metropolises of Central and Eastern Europe: new competitors or secondary nodes of global networks; 6 The state of European cities and the positions of new Member States; 7 Central and Eastern European urban regions and the knowledge economy; 8 Metropolitan functions of Warsaw, Prague and Budapest; 9 Spatial planning and city networks in economic development: a critique of the Polish national development strategy |
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PART III Border location: an impediment or opportunity for regional development?10 Economic geography and European integration: the effects on the EU external border regions; 11 The European Union, the emerging 'Neighbourhood' and geopolitics of inclusion and exclusion; 12 The former Iron Curtain and the new eastern external border: the impact on spatial development; 13 International communications and borders regions: transcending the problem of scale on the boundary between Russia and the EU |
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PART IV Central and Eastern Europe and the EU Cohesion policy reforms: a source of change or a defender of the status quo?14 Renewing EU Cohesion policy; 15 EU Cohesion policy: a decline behind the horizon?; 16 EU Cohesion policy and the peripheries of the new Member States; Conclusions; Index |
| Summary |
This book provides an up-to-date assessment of the main processes and dilemmas of regional development and regional policy in the newer European Union Member States in Central and Eastern Europe and neighbouring countries. It highlights the difficulties of balancing the demands within the new Member States for rapid regional growth and development with, firstly, the demands of the European Union overall that restructuring and development should conform to the aims and principles of EU common policies; and, secondly, with budgetary constraints. The book covers a wide range of issues, including global and national challenges to regional convergence and cohesion; regional dynamics, city networks and border issues; the effectiveness of policy responses at national and European levels, including an assessment of policy experiences from outside the new Member States; and likely future developments |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Regional planning -- Europe, Central
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Regional planning -- Europe, Eastern
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Regional planning -- European Union countries
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Développement régional
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Planification régionale
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General.
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Regional planning
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Central Europe
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Eastern Europe
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European Union countries
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bachtler, John
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Smętkowski, Maciej
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| ISBN |
9781136997198 |
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1136997199 |
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