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A01=Teresa de Noronha Vaz
Agglomeration Economies
Agro Food Chain
Author_Eveline van Leeuwen
Author_Teresa de Noronha Vaz
Balanced Urban Rural Development
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Contemporary Societies
Daily Regional Press
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Good Life
Greater Paris Region
ICT Implementation
Knowledge Spillovers
knowledge transfer networks
Large Functional Regions
Local Development
Medium Sized Towns
Micro-sized Companies
Neg Model
Neg Theory
Oporto City
PPP Implementation
Private Finance Initiative
Public Private Partnership
public-private partnerships
regional competitiveness
Rt Operator
Rural Areas
rural development policy
Rural Tourism Entrepreneurs
small town economies
Socio-economic Development
socio-economic resilience
sustainable rural innovation strategies
University Spin Offs
Urban Rural Interdependencies
Product details
- ISBN 9781409406921
- Weight: 861g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 26 Jul 2013
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Teresa de Noronha Vaz is professor of Economics of Innovation at the University of Algarve, Portugal and director of the Research Centre for Spatial and Organizational Dynamics. Eveline van Leeuwen is an assistant professor in Regional Economics at the Department of Spatial Economics of the VU University Amsterdam. Peter Nijkamp is professor in regional and urban economics and in economic geography at the VU University, Amsterdam.
