the development courses meets difficulties if the geographical environment is disregarded. In my opinion, with the help of … studying the geographical environment and also Krugman's economic geographical theory, a more complex understanding of empires …

The volume From Periphery to Centre. The Image of Europe at the Eastern Border of Europe gathers the papers presented … distances between centre and periphery and their common traits as well, as they are revealed in the various images of Europe and … propose a double perspective: on the one hand periphery viewed from the centre and on the other periphery as it sees itself …

different levels.The study showed an absolute domination of the federal "centre" in the field of periphery legislation, judicial … of periphery taxes should be transferred to the revenue part of the federal "centre" budget. Thus, practically all … and budget relations between the municipal "periphery" and the sub-federal "centre", with the possibility for the …

inequality structure between both nations (United States as centre and Mexico as periphery) on items such as herd size …

environmental governance. The basic message is that institutions are important determinants of human–environment relations but that … the course of a lifetime of thinking about the roles that social institutions play in governing human–environment … relations. Some of the resultant propositions are general in the sense that they apply to environmental governance at all levels …

extent of the alleged 'problem' of fragmentation across the governance of local social and welfare services prior to the … the form of EAZs and HAZs, it is claimed that a continuing problem of fragmentation across local governance of social and … partnership. They are a response to an alleged prior fragmentation of service provision in welfare across sectors. Employing …

the inclusion of new variables—governance and environment. Results show some considerable differences when we add the … environment dimension: the interior regions improve their relative positions in the ranking, but in terms of governance they … a country still very much marked by regional asymmetries and in need of better regional governance mechanisms and …

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