Globalization and marginality in geographical space : political, economic and social issues of development in the new millennium / edited by Heikki Jussila, Roser Majoral, Fernanda Delgado-Cravidão.

Includes bibliographical references.

List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Globalization, deregulation, marginalization: Where are we at the end of the millennium? -- 3. Globalization and economic marginalization: North-South differences -- 4. Great Plains settlement: Globalization and deregulation -- 5. Southern Patagonia facing globalization -- 6. Managing integration and marginalization for the New Europe -- 7. A Northern dimension for the European Union: Background and proposals -- 8. Rural Northern Finland and EU-membership -- 9. The Tuscany observatory of rural society development: A policy tool against spatial and information marginalization -- 10. The deep rural context and micro-regional changes in Southern Portugal -- 11. Unforeseen regional effects as a result of corporatization of government administrative bodies -- 12. Consequences of regulation and deregulation in marginal and critical economies of the U.S. Pacific Northwest -- 13. Deregulation and marginality: New public policies and new approaches to the planning of tourism -- 14. From economic marginality to the problems of 'quality of life' -- 15. The 'old' and 'new' forms of inequality: The case of Portual -- 16. Mill town without its mills: Preliminary assessment of the consequences of industrial abandonment -- 17. Demographic factors contributing to regional imbalances in Spain -- 18. Social neighbourhoods in peripheries: A Finnish-Swedish comparison -- 19. People who were not there but are now! Aboriginality in Tasmania -- 20. Child labour, the reverse of economic globalization in peripheral regions -- 21. The plight of women in the margins of rural life in Africa: The case of Zimbabwe -- 22. Conclusions and summary.

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