Extreme environmental conditions, sparsely distributed human populations, and diverse
local economies characterize the Russian Arctic and Far East. There is an urgent need for …

The countryside has often been marginalised in discussions of economic and societal
development, in favour of the urban. This book aims to stimulate a debate and a re …

El trabajo analiza tres plataformas que han emergido en diferentes provincias españolas
(Soria, Teruel y Zamora) para denunciar el abandono sufrido por parte de las instituciones …

The regional bioeconomy has a high importance for generating socio-economic impacts,
especially in sparsely populated resource peripheries. The benefits include increased …

Objectives To study the role of distance in public primary health service use in rural and
urban local residential areas (1 km² grids) among the young adults of the Northern Finland …

The basic task and the underlying ways of thinking in the current European regional policies
can be described with key words such as economic competitiveness, regional specialisation …

Lehtonen O. and Tykkyläinen M. Estimating regional input coefficients and multipliers: is the
choice of a non-survey technique a gamble?, Regional Studies. Regional input–output …

In this paper territoriality is studied in the context of contemporary spatial development
theories and practices in the European Union (EU). Primarily, territoriality is examined as a …

All the time the long economic growth period of 1992–2008 prevailed in Finland, the
economic landscape was changing constantly and markedly. We analyse in this article how …

The article aims to show how local industry life cycles impact the development of Finnish
resource-based rural towns. This study reveals five long-term and overlap** industry …