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Contextualising City-regional Issues, Strategies and their Use: the Flemish Story

Local Government Studies, 2008
Abstract This paper presents a contextualised analysis of what might be called the city-regional debate. The debate is unfolded in terms of four types of city-regional issues, eight common strategies to tackle the latter and the use thereof in Flanders.
Joris Voets, Filip De Rynck
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Procedures for Planning in the Flemish Region

1992
Belgium comprises three different cultures: the 5.5 million Dutch-speaking Flemish in the North, the 3.5 million French-speaking Walloons in the South, and 60,000 German-speaking people living in the East. Another one million people live in the bilingual (French-Dutch) capital, Brussels.
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The groundwater vulnerability map for the Flemish region: its principles and uses

Engineering Geology, 1990
Abstract Fobe, B. and Goossens, M., 1990. The groundwater vulnerability map for the Flemish region: its principles and uses. Eng. Geol., 29: 355–363. The vulnerability map of the groundwater for the Flemish region demonstrates the possible risk for contamination of the groundwater in the upper aquifer of economical value.
Bart Fobe, Marc Goossens
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Household Waste Management in the Flemish Region of Belgium

2000
The Flemish region, in northern Belgium, has six million inhabitants, which is four hundred and thirty-seven inhabitants per square kilometre.
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Regional Languages Official Elsewhere: Basque, Catalan, Flemish and Alsatian

2007
The RLs which are official in other countries tend, by definition, to straddle borders. There are three clear cases in France. Basque and Catalan are both national languages in Spain, and co-official with the state language, Castilian, in the regions where they are spoken. Flemish is both an official and national language in Belgium and Holland.
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Europe and Cohesion Policy-Making in the Flemish Region

2001
Abstract This chapter deals with the structural funds policies in the Belgian region of Flanders during the last ten years. The four areas that have received European support are compared in an attempt to delineate the impact of the European Community on territorial restructuring and on the nature of the policy process.
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The regional transposition of EU directives: a comparison of Flemish, Walloon and Scottish performances

European Politics and Society, 2017
This article examines the transposition performance of three regions: Flanders, Wallonia and Scotland. This paper introduces – for the first time – regional internal market scoreboards, mapping their transposition performances in terms of timeliness and conformity in the period 2010–2014.
Isabelle De Coninck, Steven Van Hecke
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Abolishing Compulsory Voting: The 2024 Experience in the Flemish Region of Belgium

PS: Political Science & Politics
ABSTRACT There are few clear-cut examples of countries that have abolished or introduced compulsory voting. When the Netherlands abolished the system in 1971, Irwin (1974) documented how this led to a sharp reduction in voter turnout, especially among young people, women, and those with little political interest. Flanders, the largest
Marc Hooghe, Dieter Stiers
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ATLAS 5th General Assembly - Regional Marine Spatial Planning in the Flemish Cap

2020
Presentation given during the ATLAS 5th General Assembly - a theoretical exercise of MSP in Case Study 11 and implications in fisheries management.
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Breast cancer screening in the Flemish Region, Belgium

European Journal of Cancer Prevention, 1994
H, Van Oyen, W, Verellen
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