In European Parliament elections turnout rates, traditionally lower than in national parliamentary elections, decrease from one elections to the next, and show strong variations within and between countries. What explains this decline? Why are there such big differences between and within the EU...

This study considered the nature of employment that women engage in as a multi-categorical response. A multinomial logistic model with geo-additive predictors was used to examine the determinants and geographical variations using data from the 2008 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey. Diffuse...

There is an increasing political interest in Hungary to relocalize food. A Policy Intervention for Food Relocalization Index is introduced to quantitatively reveal how rural development programme measures should be allocated efficiently to promote local food production. Results show that present...

Die demografische Entwicklung in Deutschland stellt die Altenpflegewirtschaft vor ganz besondere Herausforderungen: Die Nachfrage nach Langzeitpflege und Betreuungsleistungen wächst unaufhaltsam, gleichzeitig aber gibt es finanzierungsseitige Restriktionen im Bereich der Pflegeversicherung und...

Age is an important factor in entrepreneurship. The paths into entrepreneurship at a later age may be varied. Self-employment in later life may be either a form of partial retirement or a career option. Older individuals may also be pushed into self-employment. The focus of this paper is on the...

The focus of our contribution is to shed light on the importance of firm agglomerations and FDI as drivers of firm survival in Italy. We focus upon different types of agglomeration economies related to the geographical context checking how these economies impact differently on heterogeneous...

Romania's communist regime used forced industrialization and urbanization policies as a solution for speeding-up the pace of development in the lagging areas, which resulted in reducing regional disparities. However, after 1989 there areas were the first that suffered the hardships of economic...

Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are an essential tool to integrate and manage large amounts of data (statistical and graphical) and to visualise the modelling efforts of the contemporary city. The further use of spatial analysis methods, in particular the exploratory analysis of data and...

This editorial launches REGION, the new online and open-access journal of ERSA. REGION aims to be a high-quality academic journal in the field of regional science. To its contributors, it offers a solid peer-review process and immediate publica- tion upon acceptance. Also, it will be a flexible...

In the last two decades, due to falling barriers to trade and investment, the world economic scenario has profoundly changed. Few rich countries (United States, Great Britain, France, Japan, Switzerland, Germany and the Netherlands) have been securing a substantial stake in worldwide production...

Evolutionäre Ansätze bilden heute einen zentralen Baustein der regionalen Innovationsforschung. Im Fokus stehen dabei die Historie regionaler Innovationssysteme, daraus resultierende Routinen und Interaktionen sowie der Einfluss von Wissen, Institutionen und individuellen Akteuren auf...

This paper is extracted from the research educational process of M.S level at Bogor Agricultural University, Indonesia. We first created a research group named Geoinformatics on Peverty and then invited some students to join and do research related to spatial statistics and poverty. Poverty is...

In seinem Kommentar setzt sich Ferdinand Dudenhöffer, Universität Duisburg-Essen, mit den Elektromobilitätsprojekten der Bundesregierung – den sogenannten »Schaufenstern« für Elektromobilität – auseinander. Deutschland sollte nach dem Regierungsprogramm zum »Leitmarkt für...

In seinem Kommentar setzt sich Ferdinand Dudenhöffer, Universität Duisburg-Essen, mit den Elektromobilitätsprojekten der Bundesregierung – den sogenannten »Schaufenstern« für Elektromobilität – auseinander. Deutschland sollte nach dem Regierungsprogramm zum »Leitmarkt für...

The challenges for the quality of life in rural areas in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, connected with structural economic and demographic changes, raise the question of how to find appropriate policy interventions in the specific situation of transitions countries. One approach to bring forward rural...

The region has been used to understand and propose solutions to phenomena and problems outside the dominant spatial scale of the twentieth century--the nation state. Its influence can be seen in multiple social science disciplines and in public policy across the globe. But how was this knowledge...