J<sc>ones</sc> M. and W<sc>oods</sc> M. New localities, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. During the mid-to-late 1980s, 'locality' was <italic>the</italic> spatial metaphor to describe and explain the shifting world of regional studies. The paper argues that the resulting 'localities debate' threw this baby out with the bathwater and rather than...

Partnerships have become established as a significant vehicle for the implementation of rural development policy in Britain. In promoting new working relationships between different state agencies and between the public, private, and voluntary sectors, partnerships have arguably contributed to a...

The evasion of compulsory military service is an issue raised very frequently in claims for refugee protection. In Canada, the determination of these claims follows the decision of the Federal Court of Appeal in Zolfagharkhani. Unfortunately, this decision is flawed in several respects and has...

This book offers a new geographical political economy approach to our understanding of regional and local economic development in Western Europe over the last twenty years. It suggests that governance failure is occurring at a variety of spatial scales and an ‘impedimenta state’ is emerging....

Many theories have been put forward to explain attitudes towards ambiguity. This paper reports on an experiment designed to test for the existence of Comparative Ignorance when it is tested over events with a range of different likelihoods. A total of 93 subjects valued a series of gambles, one...