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Regional development facing global sustainability challenges

By Elisa Giuliani, Full Professor at the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Pisa where she directs the Responsible Management Research Center In the economic geography and regional studies fields, we tend to see regions as potential loci for innovation, knowledge creation, cooperation and economic growth. In the absence of these elements, […]

The Complex Adaptive Region-Assemblage and Local Economies: New Perspectives for Tackling Regional Inequalities

By Joanie Willett, Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Exeter (Cornwall Campus), Environment and Sustainability Institute Even before Covid-19, it was not news to say that many peripheral and rural regions have been struggling economically.  This is exacerbated by what Peter De Souza observes in his 2017 book The Rural and Peripheral in Regional Development, […]