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The Spatial impact of economic changes in Europe

Title: The Spatial impact of economic changes in Europe / editors : William Lever and Antoine Bailly.
Publication: Aldershot, England : Avebury, 1996.

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Description

x, 363 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm.

Summary

The economies of Europe are changing rapidly. More and more employment and output comes from the service sector: less employment is to be found in agriculture, mining and manufacturing although output has been sustained. Economies have deindustrialised, the environment has improved, the large factories have been broken up into networks of smaller enterprises; products, production and labour have all become more flexible.
This book examines these processes of economic change in western Europe, in southern Europe and in east-central Europe.
These changes bring problems as well as opportunities. Unemployed manual workers are not re-employed in the service sector; there is increased social and economic polarisation; Europe has suffered from the increasing levels of international competition. The final section of the book concerns policy intervention to tackle some of these problems. Policies for equity, efficiency and environmental protection are examined as are the policy framework and the political basis for policy.

Series Statement

Studies of science in Europe

Uniform Title

Studies of science in Europe.

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Contents

Introduction / Antoine Bailly and William Lever -- Agglomeration and diffusion -- Towards flexible production systems -- Vertical and horizontal logics -- The organization of the book -- 1. Economic restructuring: A conceptual framework / William Coffey and Antoine Bailly -- 2. Economic restructuring in Western Europe / Guy Burgel and William Lever -- 3. Economic restructuring in Southern Europe / Rossetos Fakiolas -- 4. Economic restructuring in Eastern Europe / Paul Hare -- 5. Economic restructuring in eastern Germany / Ludwig Schatzl -- 6. European world cities / Arie Shachar -- 7. The European regional dimension / William Lever -- 8. The urban development cycle and the economic system / William Lever and Anthony Champion -- 9. Divisions of labour, production and space: Classical concepts for the new Europe? / Joan-Eugeni Sanchez, Eric Weiss-Altaner and Antoine Bailly -- 10. A theoretical framework for analysis of urban economic policy / Chris Jensen-Butler --
11. The administrative structure of the delivery mechanisms / Joan-Eugeni Sanchez -- 12. Urban and regional policy: The political dimension / Chris Pickvance -- Conclusion / Antoine Bailly and William Lever.

ISBN

1856286118

LCCN

96083276

OCLC

ocm34872892

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries