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Cities Between Competitiveness and Cohesion
. Ed(S): Ache, Peter; Andersen, Hans Thor; Maloutas, Thomas; Raco, Mike; Tasan-Kok, Tuna
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Hardback. The central aim of many analyses in population studies and demography is to explain cause-effect relationships among variables or events. In population studies, experimental designs are unfeasible. Nevertheless, quasi or natural experiments are sometimes performed to estimate treatment effects. Editor(s): Ache, Peter; Andersen, Hans Thor; Maloutas, Thomas; Raco, Mike; Tasan-Kok, Tuna. Series: Geojournal Library. Num Pages: 324 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSG; RGC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1390.
European cities have for decades found themselves in a phase of important changes. Concomitantly multi-level and multi-actor policy processes have unfolded in the EU. Sub-national governments are facing new challenges as their manufacturing industry withers away, still more responsibility for matching the globalisation ch- lenges such as welfare, employment and general social improvements are tra- ferred from national to sub-national levels. This raises speci?c governance problems for city regions in their attempt to meet the demand from the emerging knowled- based society. Yet, no city or city region exists in a vacuum; they are all embedded in national settings with ... Read more
European cities have for decades found themselves in a phase of important changes. Concomitantly multi-level and multi-actor policy processes have unfolded in the EU. Sub-national governments are facing new challenges as their manufacturing industry withers away, still more responsibility for matching the globalisation ch- lenges such as welfare, employment and general social improvements are tra- ferred from national to sub-national levels. This raises speci?c governance problems for city regions in their attempt to meet the demand from the emerging knowled- based society. Yet, no city or city region exists in a vacuum; they are all embedded in national settings with ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
324
Condition
New
Series
Geojournal Library
Number of Pages
306
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781402082405
SKU
V9781402082405
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