Responses to geographical marginality and marginalization : from social innovation to regional development This book examines regional responses to marginality by highlighting social innovation local capacity and new path formations in what are often seen as economically weak regions where policy and institutional considerations play a key role. Divided into three parts it covers a wide range of topics related to geographical marginality from various angles on both regional and local scales. The first part focuses on the role of social innovation and illustrates the themes of social innovation and new localism local revitalization and social entrepreneurship. The second part then addresses the issues of economic responses valorization resource use and local action in response to marginalization. Lastly the third part explores various policies and measures taken to respond to marginality and intensify regional development in marginal areas. . 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 dEnhaut 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. .