Europe as we know it, the European Union of 27 countries, has evolved from the European Coal and Steel Union of a few developed countries in a comprehensive economic and political union, which now embraces and unites most of the European continent (EU 2011). Each successive transformation and...

Europe as we know it, the European Union of 27 countries, has evolved from the European Coal and Steel Union of a few developed countries in a comprehensive economic and political union, which now embraces and unites most of the European continent (EU 2011). Each successive transformation and...

The development of regions and especially those facing spatial discontinuity has been the focus in some previous work (Angelis 1980, 1999) and the region’s Image has been defined as a variable expressing its relative attractiveness and its prospects of future development. The findings...

The distribution of income has always been a main concern of economic theory and policy. Classical economists were concerned with the distribution of income between the main factors of production, land, labour and capital. Modern economists, on the other hand, are concerned with the distribution...

The development of regions and especially those facing spatial discontinuity has been the focus in some previous work (Angelis 1980, 1999) and the region's Image has been defined as a variable expressing its relative attractiveness and its prospects of future development. The findings have been...

The distribution of income has always been a main concern of economic theory and policy. Classical economists were concerned with the distribution of income between the main factors of production, land, labour and capital. Modern economists, on the other hand, are concerned with the distribution...

The development of regions and especially those facing spatial discontinuity has been the focus in some previous work (Angelis 1980, 1999) and the region's Image has been defined as a variable expressing its relative attractiveness and its prospects of future development. The findings have been...

The distribution of income has always been a main concern of economic theory and policy. Classical economists were concerned with the distribution of income between the main factors of production, land, labour and capital. Modern economists, on the other hand, are concerned with the distribution...

Nowadays, globalization, technological innovation, migration and population ageing, make it increasingly difficult to predict the future of regions. Identifying the key problems that regions face and considering how these findings could be effectively used as a basis for planning...