Responses to Geographical Marginality and Marginalization: From Social Innovation to Regional Development - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3030513416 ISBN 13 : 9783030513412

Editeur : Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2020

Synopsis

Etienne Nel and Stanko Pelc

Introduction

PART 1: SOCIAL INNOVATION AS A TOOL FOR DEMARGINALIZATION

Pierre-Antoine Landel and Sabine Girard: Questioning the Transformative Capacity of Social Innovation: The Example of Agroecology Transition in the Drôme Valley (FR)

Juan-Luis Klein: Social Innovation, Knowledge and Local Revitalization: a case of knowledge co-construction in a local rural community

Mélanie Doyon, Juan-Luis Klein, Pierre-André Tremblay and Camille Arsenault-Hétu: Local Community and Social Enterprise: a food security oriented initiative in Saint-Camille

PART 2: REGIONS, REGIONAL POTENTIALS, REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND GEOGRAPHICAL MARGINALITY

Walter Leimgruber: Rich country - 'poor' regions: fighting regional disparities in Switzerland

Tomasz Komornicki and Konrad Czapiewski: Economic Lagging and Regional Development - some narrative stories from Podkarpackie, Poland

Jerzy Banski: The evaluation of local resources from the point of view of their role as factors underpinning development in the marginal regions of eastern Poland 16

Walter Leimgruber: Nature Parks: valorising regional potential. The example of the Gruyère Pays-d'Enhaut regional nature park

Etienne Nel & Teresa Stevenson: Responding to Marginalization in Australia through regional and local action, with a specific focus on Western Australia

PART 3: POLICIES, ACTIONS AND OTHER RESPONSES TO MARGINALITY

Toivo Muilu: Policies of sparsely populated rural areas in Finland

Krystian Heffner, Agniesza Latocha: Desolated villages as example of spatial, economic and social marginalization in the Polish-Czech borderland

Hugo Capella: Ibiza: A disrupting merge

Raularian Rusu, Titus Man and Sandu Ciprian Moldovan: The impact of motorway building on the accessibility to marginal areas in the West Region of Romania.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Etienne Nel is a Professor at the Geography Department of the University of Otago in New Zealand. His research interests include regional and local economic development, and small town and community development in Africa and Australasia. He chaired the IGU Commission on Marginalization, Globalization, and Regional and Local Responses from 2004 to 2012. He was the Managing Editor of the New Zealand Geographer (2012-18) and is currently the Commissioning Editor for the Journal of Geography in Higher Education & for Local Economy. He has co-authored or co-edited 11 books, 6 conference proceedings, 48 book chapters and 112 articles.

Stanko Pelc is a Professor of Geography at the University of Primorska in Koper, Slovenia. He studied at the Faculty of Arts, and at the Faculty of Architecture, Construction and Geodesy (M.Sc.) at the University of Ljubljana and the Faculty of Science at the University of Zagreb (Ph.D.). He has been involved in rural development and the planningof transportation systems, and he has taught at the University of Ljubljana and University of Maribor. He currently teaches at the Departments of Pre-school and Primary Education as well as at the Geography Department at the University of Primorska in Koper. His research interests cover many different fields, such as demography, transportation geography, local and regional development, marginality and marginalization, especially its social dimension and educational context. He is (co)author of 24 scientific articles, 22 published scientific conference contributions and 29 parts or chapters in monographs. He has edited four books and is the author of two books and one university textbook (in Slovenian).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3030513416
• ISBN 13: 9783030513412
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 196
• Éditeur: Nel Etienne, Pelc Stanko
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