The Rise of the Networking Region: The Challenges of Regional Collaboration in a Globalized World (New Regionalisms Series) - Hardcover

Haug, Are Vegard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1409425835 ISBN 13: 9781409425830

Publisher: Routledge, 2011

Synopsis

How regions and cities adapt to a Network Society and a globalized environment, the policies they pursue and how structures of governance are transformed in the pursuit of those policies are major themes in this volume. These issues are addressed with specific reference to the Nordic regions of Europe. Covering the four Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden plus the Faroe Islands, this volume charts the changes in networking activities and related development initiatives that have taken place over the last ten years. This means analysing regions in their pursuit of new policies, partnerships and styles of representation. Through this process regions are becoming partners and players in European integration and a movement of integrative regionalism is taking shape which is different from inward looking identity regionalism or self-centred competitive regionalism and takes regions beyond lobbying in Brussels.

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About the Author

Harald Baldersheim, University of Oslo, Norway, Are Vegard Haug and Morten Øgård, University of Agder, Norway

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1409425835
• ISBN 13: 9781409425830
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 212
• Editor: Baldersheim Harald