Based on the development of the industrial structure of prefecture-level resource-based cities in Northeast China, this paper selects three indicators of industrial structure-diversification, rationalization and upgrading-conducting empirical analysis on the transformation of the industrial...

Das Ruhrgebiet ist seit den 1980er Jahren Zielregion regionaler Fördermaßnahmen von Land, Bund und EU. Bis heute hat die Regionalpolitik allerdings keine Trendwende bewirkt. Die multizentrische Region nahm nicht am Aufschwung der urbanen Räume seit der Jahrtausendwende teil; sie verlor...

The contents of the present work focus on contrasting the possible contribution of the funds from the second pillar of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) to improving the evolution of one of the economic variables that is usually included as an objective to be achieved by rural development...

The inter-provincial economic gap in China is obvious and tends to expand, although it is still unclear why this occurs. This paper combines DEA-based green economic growth accounting, growth convergence test and distribution dynamic analysis to show that China's inter-provincial labor...

The environmental benefits from the eco-innovation activities of enterprises have the nature of reduced material or water use per unit of output, less pollution and waste, better CO2 "footprint" in production and subsequent business processes. The socioeconomic impacts are associated with...

In Deutschland hat seit dem Jahr 2000 eine spürbare Konvergenz zwischen städtischen und ländlichen Regionen stattgefunden. Dieser Befund überrascht, da zuletzt vermeintlich abgehängte Regionen und scheinbar wachsende räumliche Disparitäten die öffentliche Diskussion bestimmten. Entgegen...

The sustainable development of the cities represents one of the major challenges for the future of the planet in the 21st century, relatively to the contribution and adaptation to climate change, natural resources consumption, energetic transition, population mobility, welfare and security,...

The main goal of the current research paper is to analyze the evolution of the knowledge intensive business services sector from Romania, for the period 2008-2014, from a territorial point of view and to assess its impact in the general economic development. Using a time series of Gini...

The majority of Central and Eastern European post-socialist countries acceded to the European Union in 2004. The integration of these economies to the Union had begun earlier, which was strengthened by grants from the Structural Funds after the accession. One of their aims is to facilitate the...

Die Berliner Wirtschaft hat sich in den vergangenen Jahren dynamisch entwickelt, die Industrie hat an diesem Wachstum aber kaum partizipiert. Das Engagement großer Industrieunternehmen lief zuletzt eher darauf hinaus, die Potentiale Berlins für die Entwicklung neuer Geschäftsmodelle und...