Der Sammelband behandelt das aktuelle Thema der Raumrelevanz der Digitalisierung. Vor dem Hintergrund allgemeiner Erkenntnisse zur Digitalisierung werden Erfahrungen und Ergebnisse aus dem LAG-Gebiet Hessen, Rheinland-Pfalz und Saarland berichtet. Ziel ist es, der Raumwirksamkeit nachzugehen und...

This book presents the proceedings of a conference held near Washington, DC (Airlie, Virginia) to discuss the need for innovative new approaches to rural policy. US Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan opened the conference by stressing the crucial importance of flexibility in enhancing...

This volume provides an overview of research on seemingly, current and former peripheral areas and on processes of peripheralisation in Europe. Particular emphasis is given to questions of local and regional governance, to multiple actors of peripheralisation and residential revitalisation as...

"Since China's reform and opening up in 1978, Zhejiang province has been one of the country's forerunners in economic, social and political transformation. This book focuses on Zhejiang's rural development and rural governance innovation over the past few decades. The Zhejiang provincial...