Globalisierung und Internationalisierung der Wirtschaft, europäische Integration, Transformationsprozesse in und nach Mittel- und Osteuropa, neue Entwicklungen im Tertiär- und Quartärbereich, regionale Strukturveränderungen und die Zunahme von Konkurrenzen unter Standorten und Regionen...

The city of Essen is located at the centre of the Ruhr area, one of the largest urban and industrial agglomerations in Europe. Like many places in the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia Essen had to deal with tremendous structural changes due to the downturn of coal mining and the...

"A compilation of policy-relevant research by a multidisciplinary group of scholars on the state of families in rural America in the twenty-first century. Examines the impact of economic restructuring on rural Americans and provides policy recommendations for addressing the challenges they...