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Big Data and the Welfare State: How the Information Revolution Threatens Social Solidarity Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Niccolo Durazzi
Published in Regional Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Green hydrogen regions: emergent spatial imaginaries and material politics of energy transition Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Amelia Hine, Chris Gibson, Chantel Carr
This paper analyses the discursive and material politics of energy transition, focusing on promotion of Australian industrial regions as ‘green hydrogen hubs’. Regions are key spatial imaginaries i...
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The twin innovation transitions of European regions Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Giorgio Fazio, Sara Maioli, Nirat Rujimora
We investigate the spatial distributions and transitions of European regions' innovative orientation to information and communication technology (ICT), green technology or twin technologies. Using ...
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Brand on the run: place brands as judgement devices and sources of local advantage in the music industry Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Patrick Adler
Products from certain areas are assumed to share qualities by virtue of where they are made. This article considers the economic significance of such place brands in the wider market for symbolic g...
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Regional capability, evolutionary economic geography and global production networks Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Jessie P. H. Poon
In this exchange, I suggest that regional capability provides a lens to link two popular theories in regional studies, namely evolutionary economic geography (EEG) and global production networks (G...
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Global production networks meets evolutionary economic geography Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Neil Lee
Two of the canonical approaches in regional studies are global production networks (GPNs) and evolutionary economic geography (EEG). Recent geopolitical and economic events have shown the importanc...
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Local migration policy: governance structures and policy output in Swedish municipalities Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Andrea Spehar
Published in Regional Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Scotland and Islandness: explorations in community, economy and culture Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Mathew Nicolson
Published in Regional Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Extreme events, decentralisation and the effective number of parties Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 David Lublin
An examination of eleven Western democracies reveals that widespread crises like the Great Recession and COVID-19 spurred increases in the number of parties with the effect of the recession proport...
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Exploring the drivers of internal labour migration for the regions of Great Britain Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Heather Dickey, Maire Carroline Magante
The role of internal migration in reducing regional inequalities is a common feature of classical economic theory and urban economics models. If regional migration is important in reducing spatial ...
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Natural disasters and intergovernmental relations: more or less decentralisation? Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Luiz de Mello, João Tovar Jalles
Subnational governments, at the regional and local levels, play an important role in the prevention, management and recovery from natural disasters. These jurisdictions are responsible for issuing ...
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Harnessing global value chains for regional development: How to upgrade through regional policy, FDI, and trade Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Ricardo Hausmann
Published in Regional Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Is biorefinery establishment enhancing the EU labour market on a regional level? Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Xinqi Zhu, Maria Vrachioli, Edoardo Baldoni, Robert M’Barek, Johannes Sauer
The deployment of biorefineries as part of the European Union’s Bioeconomy Strategy aims at contributing to the transition to a climate-neutral economy and creating jobs and growth in rural areas. ...
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How much do cluster institutions drive a firm’s green innovation? A multi-level analysis Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Jose-Antonio Belso, Isabel Díez-Vial, Gregorio Martín-de Castro, Jose-Luis Hervas-Oliver
This research explores the complementary role of formal institutions at the macro-level and informal ones at the cluster level on a firm’s green product innovation. Using mixed methods in a sample ...
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EU Cohesion Policy and spatial governance: Territorial, social and economic challenges Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Vincent Nadin
Published in Regional Studies (Vol. 58, No. 2, 2024)
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What are university satellite campuses for? A perspective on their contribution to Italian municipalities and regions Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Paolo Seri, Lorenzo Compagnucci
This paper is the first to present a long-term retrospective overview of the impact of Italian university satellite campuses (SCs), since Decree n. 509 of 1999 fostered a massive increase in the nu...
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Overcoming the dark side of subnational start-up support policies: a pilot project for facilitating cross-border cooperation in Europe Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Carlos Rodríguez-García, Ana I. Martínez-Senra, María Quintás, Xosé H. Vázquez
Business start-up support policies have gained significant attention from policymakers, largely due to their immediate impacts and the positive media coverage they receive. However, the widespread ...
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Third places, the connective fibre of cities and high-tech entrepreneurship Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Kevin Credit, Orsa Kekezi, Charlotta Mellander, Richard Florida
Urban ‘third places’ foster informal interactions and face-to-face contact that is critical to the development of new innovations and start-up businesses. Our research utilises extensive microdata ...
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Rethinking ‘left-behind’ places in a context of rising spatial inequalities and political discontent Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Danny MacKinnon, Vincent Béal, Tim Leibert
Published in Regional Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Industrial robots, and information and communication technology: the employment effects in EU labour markets Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Stefan Jestl
This paper explores the effects of industrial robots and information and communication technology (ICT) on regional employment in European Union countries. The empirical analysis relies on a harmon...
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The geographies of local austerity policies: a quantitative analysis of local budgets in France Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Antoine Grandclement, Ludovic Halbert, Félix Adisson, Vincent Lasserre-Bigorry, Françoise Navarre
The literature acknowledges the variety of local austerity policies, but has paid less attention to their geographical diversity. This paper questions the theorisation of space in this literature a...
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Productivity slowdown across European regions: does non-standard work matter? Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Michele Capriati, Valeria Cirillo, Marialuisa Divella
In recent decades, Europe has experienced a significant slowdown in productivity, accompanied by rising regional inequalities. At the same time, the fragmentation of work and the rise of non-standa...
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Regional resilience during COVID-19: evidence from Colombian exporting clusters Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Marco Dueñas, Mercedes Campi
This study characterises the geography of Colombian exporters and their response to the COVID-19 crisis. We define exporting clusters within departments using bipartite network analysis and communi...
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Does decentralisation theorem shape intermunicipal cooperation? Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Quentin Frère, Lionel Védrine
This paper proposes a theoretical model of voluntary intermunicipal cooperation and empirically tests its assertions through the French municipalities’ choices of transferring their competences to ...
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COVID-19 vaccination rates and neighbourhoods: evidence from Sweden Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Charlotta Mellander, Johan Klaesson, José Lobo, Sofia Wixe
This paper investigates neighbourhood characteristics related to an individual’s likelihood of getting the first COVID-19 vaccination and implementing official recommendations for the three-shot va...
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Decentralisation, unfunded mandates and the regional response to the COVID-19 pandemic Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, Miquel Vidal-Bover
The COVID-19 pandemic sparked a surge in the number and scope of governmental interventions in both centralised and decentralised states. While decentralisation theories and recent empirical studie...
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A capability-approach perspective on regional development Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Maria Abreu, Flavio Comim, Calvin Jones
We argue for a broader and more deliberative regional policymaking process that can be used to better identify the needs of diverse left-behind communities and develop appropriate policies. We argu...
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On the Roman origins of entrepreneurship and innovation in Germany Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Michael Fritsch, Martin Obschonka, Fabian Wahl, Michael Wyrwich
We investigate whether the development of regional disparities in entrepreneurship and innovation in Germany can be traced back to Roman rule 2000 years ago. We find a lasting positive Roman effect...
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Devolved fiscal powers, increased competitiveness and ‘levelling up’: a simulation approach Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Kevin Connolly, Alastair Greig, Peter G. McGregor, Graeme Roy, J. Kim Swales
The UK levelling up agenda includes a commitment to devolution, but there has been little attempt to model the operation of possible accompanying regional tax powers. We use computable general equi...
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The role of immigrants, emigrants and locals in the historical formation of European knowledge agglomerations Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Philipp Koch, Viktor Stojkoski, César A. Hidalgo
Did migrants make Paris a mecca for the arts and Vienna a beacon of classical music? Or was their rise a pure consequence of local actors? We use data on more than 22,000 historical individuals bor...
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Handbook on city and regional leadership Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Louise Kempton
Published in Regional Studies (Vol. 58, No. 4, 2024)
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Migrants and refugees in Europe: Work integration in comparative perspective Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Micaela Mazzei
Published in Regional Studies (Vol. 58, No. 4, 2024)
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Administrative capacity and EU Cohesion Policy: implementation performance and effectiveness Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 John Bachtler, Laura Polverari, Ekaterina Domorenok, Paolo Graziano
The past two decades have seen increasing interest in the quality of government as an explanatory factor for the performance of European Union (EU) Cohesion Policy. An under-researched strand of th...
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Enhancing the inventive capacity of European regions through interregional collaboration Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Ivan De Noni, Andrea Ganzaroli
Interregional technological collaboration stands as a pivotal policy tool within the European strategy aimed at fortifying smart and sustainable regional growth. Implicit within this policy framewo...
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The entrepreneurial ecosystem: A global perspective Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Angelo Cavallo
Published in Regional Studies (Vol. 58, No. 3, 2024)
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Public policies for territorial cohesion Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Jacek Zaucha
Published in Regional Studies (Vol. 58, No. 3, 2024)
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Internal migration and economic mobility in Chile Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2023-11-17 Luis Miguel Rodrigo, Luis Mateo-Peinado
We identify internal migration flows between Chilean regions and analyse migrants’ economic mobility. A data pool from National Socioeconomic Characterization Survey (CASEN) surveys was used to det...
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Contents of volume 57 Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2023-11-14
Published in Regional Studies (Vol. 57, No. 12, 2023)
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Regional Studies Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2023-11-14
Published in Regional Studies (Vol. 57, No. 12, 2023)
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Ports as catalysts: spillover effects of neighbouring ports on regional industrial diversification and economic resilience Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Jung-In Yeon, Sojung Hwang, Bogang Jun
Recognising the intricate link between ports and regional economies, this study investigates the spillover effects of neighbouring ports on regional industrial diversification and economic resilien...
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Regional technological diversification and the global network of embodied R&D: evidence from the exposure of European regions Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Fabrizio Fusillo, Sandro Montresor, Chiara Burlina, Alessandro Palma
We investigate whether regions’ participation to the global network of embodied R&D (GNRD) facilitates their technological diversification. Filling a gap about the role of global research and devel...
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The effect of CEO locality on the cost of debt financing: the role of regional heterogeneity Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Yan Tong, Yuan Tian, Zhangfan Cao
We examine whether chief executive officer (CEO) locality affects firms’ cost of debt. Drawing upon place attachment theories suggesting individuals develop affective bonds with their hometowns, we...
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Disentangling aporophobia from xenophobia in the EU-15 Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Octasiano M. Valerio Mendoza, Flavio Comim, Mihály T. Borsi
This paper analyses whether the human capital levels embodied in immigrants can explain xenophobic trends for 126 regions in 14 EU-15 countries from 1998 to 2018. It tests if xenophobic regions may...
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Geography and branding in the craft beer industry Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Ryan M. Hynes, Dieter F. Kogler
Place-based branding strategies are important marketing tools for both regions and firms and take advantage of consumers’ embrace of the local in response to globalisation. Craft-brewing is a parti...
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Agency and the structural determinants of regional growth: towards a retheorisation Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Helen Dinmore, Andrew Beer, Jacob Irving, Markku Sotarauta
This paper addresses debates on the role of agency in shaping the economic future of regions. Scholarship on agency departs from the earlier focus of evolutionary economic geography, which highligh...
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Resilience to disruptions: the role of regional soft spaces Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Andrew G. McClelland, Duncan Shaw
A soft spaces lens enables a nuanced perspective on regional resilience governance to disruptions. Focusing on COVID-19, this article illuminates comparative insights into resilience governance in ...
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Personality and place as resources for regional development: Alfred Nobel’s Karlskoga Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Rhiannon Pugh, Ida Andersson
In ‘Alfred Nobel’s Karlskoga’, Sweden, the municipality has placed its most famous former resident at the heart of its economic development strategy. Through an in-depth qualitative case study, we ...
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Understanding the geographical distribution of innovation in England: density, accessibility and spillover effects Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2023-10-02 Stephen Roper, Halima Jibril
We examine the role of population density and accessibility in shaping innovation intensity in the 32,000 lower super output areas (LSOAs) in England. Our analysis focuses on firms’ registered inte...
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Fiscal policy, public investment and structural change: a P-SVAR analysis on Italian regions Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2023-09-27 Francesco Zezza, Dario Guarascio
This study analyses the regional impact of public expenditures focusing on three domains central to the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP): green, digital and knowledge. Relying o...
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Firms’ eco-innovation and Industry 4.0 technologies in urban and rural areas Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2023-09-26 Luca Cattani, Sandro Montresor, Antonio Vezzani
We investigate the extent to which firms’ propensity to eco-innovate, adopt Industry 4.0 (I4.0) technologies and leverage them to eco-innovate varies with their location. We maintain that urban fir...
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Political twists and turns in left-behind places: reactions of an extractive heartland to changing state strategies Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Güldem Özatağan, Ayda Eraydin
This paper investigates the twists and turns that characterise the political reactions of some ‘left-behind’ places. Offering a situated, context-sensitive and temporal analysis of Turkey’s once ex...
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The nexus between the cultural and creative industries and the Sustainable Development Goals: a network perspective Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Yang Gao, Ekaterina Turkina, Ari Van Assche
Scholars and policymakers have widely claimed that the cultural and creative industries (CCIs) provide positive knowledge externalities that can help address sustainable development challenges, yet...
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Setting local economic growth targets: does it mitigate nationwide policy uncertainty? Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2023-09-27 Hao Yang, Jing Ma, Yinghao Pan
Institutional theory holds that local governance is essential in shaping regional economic activity. This study evaluates whether local economic growth targets offset the detrimental effect of nati...
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Extreme events and the resilience of decentralised governance Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2023-09-27 María Cadaval-Sampedro, Ana Herrero-Alcalde, Santiago Lago-Peñas, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez
Extreme events, such as economic crises, natural disasters or military conflicts, can affect the balance between centralisation and decentralisation forces across countries and transform, temporari...
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Building dynamic capabilities in the transition toward a knowledge-based bioeconomy: a case study of three Finnish regions Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Valtteri Laasonen
This paper analyses the role of various organisations’ dynamic capabilities in regional transitions toward a knowledge-based bioeconomy. It offers a more nuanced understanding of regional path deve...
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Proximity and its impact on the formation of product and process innovation networks among producer firms Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Owais Anwar Golra, Alessandro Rosiello, Richard T. Harrison
Informal networks among manufacturing firms play an important role in the transfer of knowledge in industrial clusters. Proximity facilitates the networking process; however, empirical evidence on ...
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Social capital, cooperation and innovation in the energy sector clusters Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Eduardo Sánchez-García, Bartolomé Marco-Lajara, Pedro Seva-Larrosa, Javier Martínez-Falcó
This paper analyses the relationship between the location of companies in specialised environments, social capital, cooperation and firms’ performance in terms of innovation. After calculating the ...
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Geographical proximity, foreign presence and domestic firm innovation: the micro-level evidence Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Wei Liu, Wen Helena Li, Jing Yu Yang, Leven J. Zheng
The question as to whether foreign presence benefits or harms domestic firm innovation is yet to reach a definitive answer. This paper provides micro-level evidence to shed light on this topic. By ...
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Industry diversification in industrial districts: is it about embedded regional or firm-level capabilities? Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Jose Luis Hervas-Oliver, Carles Boronat-Moll, Francisca Sempere-Ripoll, Jose Mariano Dahoui-Obon
We analyse whether regionally embedded or firm-level capabilities drive regional diversification in industrial districts, examining the relationship between relatedness and Marshallian agglomeratio...
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COVID-19 as a systemic shock: curb or catalyst for proactive policies towards territorial cohesion? Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Sébastien Bourdin, John Moodie, Nora Sánchez Gassen, David Evers, Fulvio Adobati, Mounir Amdaoud, Giuseppe Arcuri, Emanuela Casti, Victoire Cottereau, Mihail Eva, Hajnalka Lőcsei, Corneliu Iaţu, Bogdan-Constantin Iba˘nescu, Philippe Jean-Pierre, François Hermet, Nadine Levratto, Linnea Löfving, Eva Coll-Martinez, Yannis Psycharis, Viktor Salenius, Zsuzsa Remete
The COVID-19 pandemic, originating as a health crisis but quickly expanding to other social spheres, had significant and asymmetric impacts across Europe, which potentially undermine territorial co...