Recent years have witnessed changes in the discourses and practices of urban policing towards 'quality-of-life offences' and the presence of unwanted groups (beggars, drug-users) in city centres. The authors argue that the change towards a more 'law-and-order' style of law enforcement, often...

H<sc>adjimichalis</sc> C. and H<sc>udson</sc> R. Contemporary crisis across Europe and the crisis of regional development theories, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. This paper explores the prima facie puzzling issue of why so much contemporary theory in economic geography and regional planning - specifically New Economic...

The exploitation of land, but also of natural elements linked to it-such as water, forests, landscape, the subsurface and biodiversity-nowadays comprise investment targets for local and international speculative capital at some unprecedented extent, intensity and geographical spread. From 2009...

The networking literature has burgeoned in recent years within a complex cross-disciplinary field and particularly in economic geography and regional planning. Networks have been analysed both as organizational expressions of globalization, linked to claims about the rise of the network society,...

In the discourse on European integration from the mid 1960s until the beginning of the 1990s, rural space and rurality have been traditionally associated with the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), while little attention has been devoted to the spatial development of the countryside. These...