Urban shrinkage is not a new phenomenon. It has been documented in a large literature
analyzing the social and economic issues that have led to population flight, resulting, in the …

As regions evolve, their economies become more complex, and they tend to diversify into
related activities. Although there is a bright side to this diversification process in terms of …

In the past decade, the literature on transitions toward sustainable socio-technical systems
has made a considerable contribution in understanding the complex and multi-dimensional …

Resilience has quickly emerged as the latest fashionable concept in regional studies and is
developing widespread appeal particularly in relation to understanding how local and …

Is resilience simply a fad, or is it a new way of thinking about human–environment relations,
and the governance of these relations, that has real staying power? Is resilience a …

Over the past 40 years, globalization has spread development to many parts of the world.
But within countries, development has become more uneven, a phenomenon known as …

Recent theorizing of path dependence supplements the traditional view of regional path-
dependent industrial development characterized by lock-in effects with paths dealing with …

The multi-level perspective (MLP) is a widely adopted framework for analysing stability,
change and transitions in socio-technical systems. Key to explanations of change is the …

R odríguez-P ose A. Do institutions matter for regional development?, Regional Studies.
This paper discusses whether institutions matter for regional development and how to …