Our objective in this paper is to argue for a new use of geographic information systems -- GIS in local planning as an auxiliary tool for decisionmaking. We review the use of the GIS technique in earlier research studies and represent the empirical findings from using GIS in a quality-of-life...

The opening of the Oresund bridge is the ultimate break through in cutting travel time between, East-Denmark and Scania, Sweden. The final implementing of the TEN project makes it finally possible to commute on a daily basis in the region between the two countries. The new link either has...

The main purpose of the current paper is to provide a closer look at the processes of economic transition and integration in the Baltic Sea Region since the early 1990s. Focal points are regional and sub-regional integrative processes with regard to trade and foreign direct investment. The...

The urban structure is a result of human actions and affects its users in a cyclic relationship. The political systems on different levels put attention to the urban structure and its relationship to the ecological and sociological and economical systems. This attention is expressed on the...

In this paper, the ‘recession push’ and the ‘prosperity pull’ hypotheses are used to analyse the effect of growing non-farm wage employment on entrepreneurship in a rural developing context. Data are collected in a rural household survey in 110 communes in central Vietnam which includes...