Industrial Change and Regional Economic Transformation (Routledge Library Editions: Urban and Regional Economics)

Reconstruction of the industrial structure and areas of attraction -- The contrast between two macro-regions -- Some final remarks -- 7 Regional perspectives on the deindustrialization of Sweden -- The issue of regional deindustrialization -- Structural change in the Swedish economy -- Twenty years of regional change in Sweden -- Changing policy perspectives in Sweden -- III Perspective Studies -- 8 Problems of regional transformation and deindustrialization in the European Community -- Some definitional issues -- Measuring deindustrialization -- Measures of regional deindustrialization in the European Community -- Regional transformation as a source of adjustment problems -- Some concluding remarks -- 9 1957 to 1992: moving toward a Europe of regions and regional policy -- Introduction -- Major features of the European Community budget -- Community regional policy: the first moves -- The political and statutory framework of industrial restructuring -- Community programmes for regional restructuring -- The 1988 reform -- The regional impact of economic and monetary union -- 10 Europe's regional-urban futures: conclusions, inferences and surmises -- Anticipated effects of 1992 -- Some specific spatial effects -- Europe and Japan: a comparison -- The Greater Europe of the 1990s -- IV Postscript -- Structural transformation in Japan: issues and prospects for regional development in the coming years -- Backdrop of global economic change -- Regional economic transformation in Japan -- Implications of Tokyo's phenomenal growth -- Challenges of balanced growth -- Options for regional development in the coming years -- Chapter appendices -- Chapter notes -- Index

• | Author: Lloyd Rodwin
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Dec 13, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 412 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1138102334
• | ISBN-13: 9781138102330