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This book shows the possibilities and some of the limits of policy efforts made by business and government to bring about the renewal of badly hit regional economies, whose dependence on industries of the earlier phases of industrialization left them vulnerable to deindustrialization.

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Author:   Philip Cooke
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138167667

ISBN 10:   1138167665
Pages:   276
Publication Date:   23 February 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents -- Preface -- Contributors -- 1 Introduction /Phil Cooke -- 2 Promoting innovation through technology networks in North-Rhine—Westphalia /Robert Huggins & Reinhard Thomalla -- 3 New wave regional and urban revitalization strategies in Wales /Phil Cooke -- 4 From front-runner to also-ran — the transformation of a once-dominant industrial region: Pennsylvania, USA /Sabina Deitrick & Robert A. Beauregard -- 5 The restructuring of the steel industries in Germany and Great Britain /Jonathan Morris & Rolf Plake -- 6 Disintegration and reintegration of production clusters in the Ruhr area /Dieter Rehfeld -- 7 Groping towards reflexivity: responding to industrial change in Ontario /Meric S. Gertler -- 8 Industrial restructuring and further training in North-Rhine-Westphalia /Gerhard Bosch -- 9 Training policy and practice in Wales and North-Rhine-Westphalia /Sara Davies -- 10 The industrial transformation of the Great Lakes Region /Richard Florida -- 11 The dash for gas — consequences and opportunities /Richard Calverley Watson -- 12 Restructuring policies: the Emscher Park International Building Exhibition /Heiderose Kilper & Gerald Wood -- 13 Keeping to the high road: learning, reflexivity and associative governance in regional economic development /Phil Cooke -- References -- Index.

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Phil Cooke is Director of the Centre for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences at the University of Wales, Cardiff. He is well known for his research in urban and regional development, editorship of European Planning Studies, and for such books as Localities (editor), Back to the future and (with others) Towards global localization.

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