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Planning Indian Megacity Regions Spatial Model, Development Dynamics and Future Advances
This book focuses on spatial planning of megacities that are growing in Asia, Africa, and America. These cities are not be seen in isolation from...
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Which Future for Metropolitan City Regions in Europe? Seven Narratives
The city region is the city of the future. The city region is the preferred territory where people work, where educational and health facilities are...
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Household and Individual Digitisation and Deprivation: A Comparative Analysis Between Italian and Spanish Regions
Despite the progress of the information society, there are currently still notable differences between the access to, and usage of, information and...
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Building a Social Progress-Adjusted Indicator of GDP Per Capita for the European Union’s Regions
Boosting economic, social and territorial cohesion is a high priority for the European Union. The regional Cohesion Policy is its instrument for...
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Population exposure to heat waves in Russian regions according to climate change scenarios for the mid-21 century
Heat waves, such as the one that struck European Russia in 2010, are among the major dangers of climate change. The population shift to large cities...
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Attraction opportunities for enotourism among international travellers to Spanish wine PDO regions
We analyze why the impact of wine tourism in Spain lags behind France and Italy. We argue that a key factor is a lack of attraction of foreign...
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Return migration and re-integration challenges in high mountain regions in Pakistan
Return migration has become a recent trend in the mountain regions of Pakistan, primarily driven by a rise in economic opportunities. To understand...
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Allocation of public health services across urban and rural regions and armed conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa
Armed conflicts exacerbate public health challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa. Inequality across groups and poverty in rural areas can be an important...
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“Does climate change influence conflicts? Evidence for the Cameroonian regions”
The objective of this article is to analyze the influence of climate change on the occurrence of conflicts in the crisis regions of Cameroon. To...
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A direct method for constructing distribution-free tolerance regions
Distribution-free tolerance regions are hyper-rectangles in terms of the number of variables that include at least a pre-specified proportion of...
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European Union Cohesion Policy: Socio-Economic Vulnerability of the Regions and the COVID-19 Shock
The European Union Cohesion Policy for the period 2021–2027 focuses on five goals to make the European Union smarter, greener, more connected, more...
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The sources of unrelated diversification and its implications for lagging regions
The paper proposes a critical review of the debate on related versus unrelated diversification undergoing within and across Evolutionary Economic...
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Evolution of Megacities and Megacity Regions
Large cities have always been there, in the world, for thousands of years. However, there have been ups and downs in their growth and decay and...
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The Divergence of Inequality in Healthcare Utilization Between Poor- and Rich-Medical Resource Regions: Evidence from the Middle-Aged and Older Adults in China
The healthcare utilization inequality among middle-aged and older adults has been a serious concern shared in the aging process. Successful policy...
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The Institutional Channeling of Transnational Economic Mobilization in Three Moroccan Regions
This chapter analyses the interaction between transnational economic mobilization between Europe and Morocco, on the one hand, and diaspora policies...
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Exploring Social Capital Level in Regions with Large and Increasing Wealth Inequality: Lesson from Seoul, South Korea
While wealth inequality is increasing worldwide, social interaction quality among communities is simultaneously decreasing. Although inequality is...
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Can Cities, States and Regions Save Our Planet? Transatlantic Perspectives on Multilevel Climate Governance
This book examines the potential for cities, states and regions to take decisive action on climate change at the local level. Local action...
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Should We Continue EU Cohesion Policy? The Dilemma of Uneven Development of Polish Regions
The European Union and the whole world are facing the problem of increasing income and wealth inequalities at the country and regional levels....
