Globalization and Marginality in Geographical Space

Political, Economic and Social Issues of Development at the Dawn of New Millennium
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-367-25010-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 324 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 497 g

Reihe: Routledge Revivals

This title was first published in 2001. An examination of globalization and marginality in geographical space, it discusses the issue of marginalization and the effects that economic globalization have on marginal and critical regions from the point of view of politics and policies and the shift from economic to social issues of development.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jussila, Heikki

Majoral, Roser

Delgado-Cravidao, Fernanda

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Sexualität & Gender in den Religionen
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: Introduction; 1: Effects of globalization; 2: Globalization, deregulation, marginalization: Where are we at the end of the millennium?; 3: Globalization and economic marginalization: North-South differences; 4: Great Plains settlement: Globalization and deregulation; 5: Southern Patagonia facing; 6: Managing integration and marginalization for the New Europe; 2: Policies and politics of change; 7: A Northern dimension for the European Union: Background and proposals; 8: Rural Northern Finland and EU-membership; 9: The Tuscany observatory of rural society development: A policy tool against spatial and information marginalization; 10: The deep rural context and micro-regional changes in Southern Portugal; 11: Unforeseen regional effects as a result of corporatization of government administrative bodies; 12: Consequences of regulation and deregulation in marginal and critical economies of the U.S. Pacific Northwest 1; 13: Deregulation and marginality: New public policies and new approaches to the planning of tourism; 3: From economic to social issues; 14: From economic marginality to the problems of ‘quality of life’; 15: The ‘old’ and ‘new’ forms of inequality: The case of Portugal; 16: Mill town without its mills: Preliminary assessment of the consequences of industrial abandonment; 17: Demographic factors contributing to regional imbalances in Spain; 18: Social neighbourhoods in peripheries; 19: People who were not there but are now!; 20: Child labour, the reverse of economic globalization in peripheral regions 1; 21: The plight of women in the margins of rural life in Africa: The case of Zimbabwe; 4: Conclusions and summary; 22: Conclusions and summary

Über Autor(innen)

Heikki Jussila, Roser Majoral, Fernanda Delgado-Cravidao