Over the past decade the 'cluster model' has been seized on as a tool for promoting competitiveness, innovation and growth on local, regional and national scales. However, despite its popularity there is much about it that is problematic, and in some respects the rush to employ 'cluster ideas'...

China is faced with the big challenge of maintaining a remarkable economic growth in an environmental friendly manner; that is why forecasting the turning point is of necessity. Traditional econometric approaches do not consider the spatial dependence that inevitably exists in the economic...

The social and political construction of sustainable development in Quebec : a critical analysis of the Quebec sustainable development policy / René Audet and Corinne Gendron -- Inclusive governance or incrementalism? : the choice of a sustainable development governance model for Flanders /...