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Polycentric Development to Combat Regional Disparities? the Relation Between Polycentricity and Regional Disparities in European Countries [PDF]

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Trends in regional disparities have been a major issue in regional science for many decades and knowledge of ways to overcome such disparities has great importance for regional policy-making. Strong initial differences between regions affect the capacity
Krister Sandberg, Evert Meijers
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Does High‐speed rail influence the location decisions of knowledge‐intensive firms in Germany?

open access: yesTijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, EarlyView.
Abstract Knowledge‐intensive firms (KIFs) play a crucial role in urban development by fostering networks for knowledge creation. Spatial characteristics, particularly accessibility, shape their locational decisions. The emergence of high‐speed rail (HSR) has significantly altered accessibility patterns in many countries, suggesting an influence on the ...
Manuel Weiß   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Is the World Getting Smaller? Network‐Driven Heterogeneity in Gravity‐Model Elasticities

open access: yesThe World Economy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Gravity models constitute the workhorse of empirical international trade research, yet the temporal stability of their core parameters—distance and GDP elasticities—remains underexplored, particularly in relation to the evolving structure of trade networks.
Zsolt T. Kosztyán   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Polycentricity

open access: yes, 2010
This paper uses commuting flows to investigate the development of polycentricity in the Veneto region between 1991 and 2001, which is located in the North-East of Italy.
Bruijsten, J.W.
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Kinship Terms and Person Address in the English‐Speaking Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the impact of migration, globalization and digitalization on the use of nominal address terms in the English‐speaking Sri Lankan Tamil (SLT) diaspora community by undertaking a corpus analysis of English fiction authored by diaspora members with SLT heritage. In the 40 years since the outbreak of the Sri Lankan civil war,
Anke Lensch
wiley   +1 more source

Converging Vocabulary, Diverging Attribution: Resilience Concepts and the Acting Subject in the National Disaster Risk Management Strategies of 25 EU Member States

open access: yesJournal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, Volume 34, Issue 4, December 2026.
ABSTRACT European disaster risk management has converged on a shared resilience vocabulary faster than on a shared account of who is expected to produce resilience. This article codes 2218 passages from 38 strategic documents in 25 EU member states along two dimensions: resilience type (engineering, ecological, transformative) and governance ...
Hüseyin Ugur Sagkal
wiley   +1 more source

Metropolitan Regions as a Changing Policy Concept in a Comparative Perspective

open access: yesRaumforschung und Raumordnung, 2017
In Europe, metropolitan policies emerge in a multi-scalar system of supranational, national and regional scales. Besides national policies on metropolitan issues, more and more European policies address metropolitan regions.
Carola Fricke
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