ISDEHS 2006 is meant to be the first of a series of symposia intended to create an ongoing dialogue between researchers and policy makers from the Arab world with the global scientific community as well as to reposition the ongoing desertification debate within the context of human...

Theoretical and applied papers are invited in all areas of industrial policy, including the following: - Drivers of industrial development: large versus small firms - Spatial dimensions of industrial development - Governance and the determinants of local economic development - Policies to...