Industrial Change and Regional Economic Transformation: The Experience of Western Europe

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Lloyd Rodwin, Hidehiko Sazanami
HarperCollins Academic, 1991 - EF - 402 pages
Analisi: ECONOMIA REGIONALE. In generale. INDUSTRIA. In generale. POLITICA REGIONALE. Politica strutturale : industria. POLITICA STRUTTURALE. In generale.

Contents

European industrial change and regional economic
3
CASE STUDIES
32
3
39
The role of hightechnology manufacturing
46
93
48
two case studies
52
Regional case studies
58
105
59
Reconstruction of the industrial structure and areas of attraction
188
The contrast between two macroregions
195
Regional perspectives on the deindustrialization of Sweden
202
Twenty years of regional change in Sweden
215
Changing policy perspectives in Sweden
224
Problems of regional transformation and deindustrialization
237
Measuring deindustrialization
248
Regional transformation as a source of adjustment problems
258

the economic revival of the 1980s
65
Deindustrialization and regional development in the Federal
70
Spatial differences in the shift to services
80
Some key factors explaining regional differences in deindustrialization
93
Regional policy responses to deindustrialization
100
Regional deindustrialization patterns
113
A tale of three regions
121
The case of the automobile industry
130
Regional deindustrialization and revitalization processes
137
Regional performance in Italy 197084
145
The deindustrialization and revitalization process
151
Some case studies of revitalization strategies
158
Conclusions
164
The regional impact of the industrial crisis
179
Some concluding remarks
264
Major features of the European Community budget
271
the first moves
278
Community programmes for regional restructuring
288
The regional impact of economic and monetary union
296
Some specific spatial effects
307
The Greater Europe of the 1990s
313
issues and prospects for regional
319
Implications of Tokyos phenomenal growth
332
Challenges of balanced growth
338
Chapter notes
369
Notes on contributors
388
List of figures
396
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