The article aims to contribute in overcoming the challenges regarding the analysis capacity and the political performance addressing regional and territorial development. For so much, the paper discusses the relationship between knowledge and planning - i. e. between science and action based on...

Au milieu du XIXe siècle l'industrialisation est aussi poussée en région flamande qu'en Wallonie. Pendant la décénnie 1840-50, tout change. La crise de l'industrie linière frappe les deux Flandres tandis que la Wallonie connaît un take-off exceptionnel. A la fin du siècle, la Wallonie...

The paradigm of the endogenous rural development tries to explain the capacity of rural communities, which are excluded by processes of modernization, and they way they support their own economic development by depending on resources, techniques and local know-how. The endogenous rural...

Shearmur R. and Polese M. (2007) Do local factors explain local employment growth? Evidence from Canada, 1971-2001, Regional Studies 41, 453-471. Why does employment grow in one region and not in another? This basic question underpins a substantial proportion of research in regional science and...

La trascendencia del modelo de desarrollo local como patrón flexible de prosperidad en múltiples áreas rurales y territorios aquejados por el desempleo, el atraso económico y la perifericidad, lo convierten en una estrategia de gran interés para Castilla y León. El presente trabajo...