The regional landscape in Europe has changed during the last decades. After a period of conversion, processes of diversion has reentered the scene. In the aftermath of the economic crisis South European countries and regions have suffered due to declining economic activity. The trend toward...

A new regional balance: Challenges and opportunities for intermediate city regions in Europe. The regional landscape in Europe has changed during the last decades. After a period of conversion, processes of diversion has reentered the scene. In the aftermath of the economic crisis South European...

Changing pattern of global specialization and trade has affected the regional economic landscape in Europe significantly during the last decades, often even more than endogenous factors or policy measures. After a period of conversion, processes of diversion has reentered the scene, particularly...

Changing pattern of global specialization and trade has affected the regional economic landscape in Europe significantly during the last decades, often even more than endogenous factors or policy measures. After a period of conversion, processes of diversion has reentered the scene, particularly...

The economy of Paraíba has changed is productive and social structure. This paper aims to describe this process highlighting the recent economic changes and its relationship with regional and national economy. The demographic and productive structures demonstrate the possible internal...

East Asia is a region of great global significance, currently accounting for around 30% of the global economy by most measures, e.g. production, trade, investment and finance. It has also become increasingly integrated in various ways. Integration at the micro-level has steadily progressed since...

This paper evaluated the role of infrastructure on the productivity of industries in the Brazilian mesoregions. We found that infrastructure positively affects the efficiency of industries, although due to the size of the estimated coefficients, this influence is small. Considering the average...

Die Corona-Pandemie 2020 dominiert überwiegend die öffentliche Diskussion hinsichtlich ihrer wirtschaftlichen und gesellschaftlichen Auswirkungen. Nicht vergessen werden sollte dabei allerdings, dass auch auf die Themen demografischer Wandel, Zukunft der Globalisierung, Nachhaltigkeit und...

There is currently a massive methodological gap in the spatial analysis of the Circular Economy (CE) performance in general and in Germany particularly. The authors present a methodology to assess this performance in German regions. The methodology consists of 26 indicators in seven dimensions,...

Die Bedeutung des Themas Kreislaufwirtschaft ist zuletzt spürbar gestiegen. Ursache hierfür sind unter anderem neue Regulierungen der EU, die auf diese Weise ihre Abhängigkeit von Ressourcenimporten reduzieren und die eigenen Nachhaltigkeitsziele erfüllen will. Besonders städtische Räume...