Overcoming Isolation
Subtitle: Information and Transportation Networks in Development Strategies for Peripheral Areas
By: edited by Harry Coccossis, Peter Nijkamp
Contributors: Nijkamp, Peter
Series: Advances in Spatial Science, The Regional Science Series; Advances in Spatial Science, The Regional Science Series
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9783642798290; 9783642798276
Subjects: Engineering; Regional planning; Geography; Economics; Regional economics
Description: This book addresses the issues of lagging development in some European regions which are disadvantaged due to their isolated location. The persisting problems of social and economic development in several European Union areas (i.e. islands, mountains, border areas etc.) has turned the attention of policy makers to the critical importance of transport and telecommunication linkages. The effectiveness of such plans and programmes, the evaluation of direct and indirect beneficial and sometimes unintended impacts of incentives are discussed. Several new analytical tools and concepts are introduced and discussed.
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Table of contents: title: Contents: Isolation and Peripherality: The Role of Networks, Borders and Barriers: Borders and Barriers in the New Europe: Impediments and Potentials of New Network Configurations; title: Some Notes on Interconnectivity in Transport Networks; title: Accessibility and Peripheral Regions; title: Innovative Growth and Peripherality in the New European Territory; title: Barriers in Network Performance in Border Areas; title: How to Overcome Barriers and Border Effects: Theoretical Elements; title: International Migration in Europe: Overcoming Isolation and Distance Friction; title: Barriers and Bridges in Technology Transfer: Perspectives for Border Regions; title: Empirical Studies on Information and Transport Networks in Europe: Access to Telecommunication Networks: Regional Variations in Consumption Network Externalities; title: Connectivity and Congestion on European Road Corridors; title: Bottlenecks in Trans Alpine Freight Transport: A Multicriteria Analysis on Future Brenner Corridor Alternatives; title: Trade Effects of the Emerging Market Economies: Study of the Transport Potential of the Rhine-Main-Danube Waterway; title: Prospects for the Conventional Passenger/Car Ferry in the Aegean; title: Connectivity and Isolation in Transport Networks: A Policy Scenario Experiment for the Greek Island Economy; title: Transport Networks and Insular Isolation: Measuring Special Inequality; title: Overcoming Isolation and the Role of Transport: the Case of the Aegean Islands.