Towns in a rural world
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Towns in a rural world
(Economic geography)
Ashgate, c2013
- : hbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Focusing on the strategic position of towns in rural development, this book explores how they act as hotspots for knowledge creation, diffusion for vital business life and innovation, and social networks and community bonds. By doing so, towns - even the smallest - can cope with processes of socio-economic decline and promote a geographically balanced income distribution and sustainable production structure. The contributors to this volume examine how to take advantage of the great potential offered by urban areas in the rural world to favour competitiveness and encourage economic activity. Taking a European perspective, the authors identify the main socio-economic advantages generated by urbanized population settlements that small and medium-sized rural towns can provide. Although much attention is currently focused on the efficient use of scarce natural resources and land, they argue that towns have an increasingly important economic and social role to play in rural areas.
Table of Contents
- Contents: Preface
- Part I Introduction: Small towns of hope and glory, Teresa de Noronha Vaz and Peter Nijkamp
- Towns today and their multifunctional activities, Eveline van Leeuwen. Part II Rural Networks and Partnerships: The role of small and medium-sized towns in local and regional economies, Waldemar Ratajczak
- Market potential and new firm formation, Jenny Grek, Charlie Karlsson and Johan Klaesson
- Critique of new economic geography to understand rural development: the influence of corporate strategy, Jose AntA(3)nio PorfA rio
- Public-private partnership in small and medium-sized towns, Jose Luis Navarro Espigares and Jose Antonio Camacho Ballesta
- Social and political determinants of the area of influence of medium-sized cities in Portugal, Ana Paula Barreira. Part III Knowledge Transfers in Rural Environments: Technological transfer in the perspective of town dimension: the case of Oxford and Oxfordshire in the UK, Helen Lawton Smith and John Glasson
- Divided knowledge on small and medium-sized towns, Tomaz P. Dentinho, Rita D. Coelho and J. Dias Coelho
- The role of universities for economic development in urban poles, Clive Winters, John Dodd and Keith Harrison
- The influence of the urban-rural gap on the R&D and innovation potential in Romania, Anca Dachin, Daniela L. Constantin and Zizi Goschin
- Rural tourism in peripheral areas: evidence from the Portuguese municipality of Almeida, Fernando P. Fonseca and Rui A.R. Ramos. Part IV Urban-Rural Interdependencies: How knowledge on land values influences rural-urban development processes, Emilia Malcata Rebelo
- From depreciation to appreciation of rural areas: 'beauty idols' in Europe, Aliye Ahu AkgA1/4n, TA1/4zin Baycan and Peter Nijkamp
- ICT's role in rural areas' neighbouring towns - stakeholders' perception, Zbigniew Florianczyk, Adam Wasilewski and Claudia Chlebek
- Land-use conflicts and the sharing of resources between urban and agricultural activities in the Greater Paris region: results based on
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