Iceland's significant onshore wind energy potential remains untapped, with no operational wind farms despite recognized opportunities for over a decade. Two wind energy projects, approved under Iceland's Master Plan for Nature Protection and Energy Utilization - a legally enshrined...

Sustainability, which addresses inequality and resource scarcity, has become a central concern for scholars, entrepreneurs and policymakers. However, the interrelationships between different components of regional sustainability in the innovation ecosystem remain underexplored. Grounded in...

Land-use policies shape the spatial allocation of infrastructure, services, and development and thus have direct implications for welfare. This paper examines the effects of Colombia's municipal territorial plan updates on poverty through the lens of the housing and services channel. Using...

Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) is an internationally known tool for organizing and governing marine spaces and activities, economic or otherwise, carried out in these spaces. Being a public process of mapping and analyzing the maritime area that involves multiple interests, actors and factors, it...

STRING (South Western Baltic Sea Transregional Region - Implementing New Geography) is a regional cooperation of urban centers and regions in the Nordic countries and Northern Germany. The study shows that the member countries of STRING have developed dynamically over the last decades, both...

• The rise in total upfront cash requirement has become the main obstacle to homeownership in Germany. Between 2015 and 2024, the average household needed a median of 9.37 years to save the necessary funds for a home purchase. • A substantial share of this burden comes not from the price...

This paper examines how regional economic diversity shapes economic resilience across European regions during major crises. Using sectoral diversity indicators at the NUTS-2 level, we analyze the impact of diversity on three dimensions of resilience: the depth of economic downturns, the strength...

This article investigates how regions' ability to pursue sustainable development trajectories affects individual subjective well-being. In particular, it disentangles the social and environmental dimensions of sustainability by examining the relative role of social capital, public safety, and...

Regional economic inequality remains a persistent challenge in developing economies, particularly in peripheral regions characterized by fragmented geography and uneven development. This study examines spatial spillovers in regional economic inequality by integrating spatial econometric analysis...

The Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs) are dynamic contributors to the global economy but face inherent vulnerabilities due to their structure of small enterprises and project-based nature. This study quantifies the economic resilience of CCIs in Mexico across multiple economic cycles from...

Universities play a critical role in knowledge creation and technological innovation, serving as key drivers of regional development. However, existing research has paid limited attention to the mechanisms through which university innovation inputs translate into firm-level performance,...

Wo Schulen, Kommunalverwaltungen und Krankenhäuser schließen, zieht sich der Staat aus der Fläche zurück. Dieser Rückzug kostet nicht nur gut bezahlte Jobs und Zukunftsperspektiven, sondern auch Vertrauen in den Staat, insbesondere in strukturschwachen Regionen. In diesem Beitrag zeige ich,...

This paper examines the effects of public infrastructure spending across Ecuadorian cantons on adequate employment and the multidimensional poverty rate over the period 2008-2022, assessing whether such spending operated as a mechanism of convergence. The analysis is grounded in the hypothesis...

For the 2028-2034 European Union budget (Multiannual Financial Framework, MFF), the European Commission has proposed to integrate cohesion, agricultural, migration and security policies - until now, standalone budget components - into a single framework, structured around National and Regional...

Objective: The article aims to explore the impact of trade openness on the economic development of Ukrainian regions in different conditions, with a particular focus on the global financial crisis (2007-2009) and the 'hybrid' stage of the war (2014-2021). Research Design & Methods: We analysed...

Chapter 1. Introduction to Essays on Global Regionalism (Vol. I): Past, Present and Future of Regionalism Studies -- Part I: What are the Global Origins of Regionalism Thinking? -- Chapter 2. Pan-Africanism: A Theory of Regional Integration -- Chapter 3. Nkrumah, Somalia, and the Regional Ebb...

Ziel der Studie ist es, die regionalwirtschaftliche Bedeutung des Hamburger Flughafens systematisch darzustellen. Im Fokus stehen dabei die wirtschaftlichen Verflechtungen mit der Metropolregion Hamburg. Die Analyse zeigt: Jeder am Flughafen erwirtschaftete Euro steht im Zusammenhang mit bis zu...

Entrepreneurial Ecosystems sind zu einem "Blockbuster" in der Regionalentwicklung avanciert. Offen bleibt jedoch, welche Wirkungen sie tatsächlich für die Region entfalten. Diese Systeme wechselseitig abhängiger Akteure und Faktoren, die so koordiniert sind, dass sie produktives...

Im vorliegenden Beitrag wird die performative Dimension von Regionsbildungsprozessen und ihre Implikationen für die Regionalentwicklung und Regionalplanung behandelt. Der Fokus liegt auf der Interaktion zwischen administrativ-normativen Programm- oder Planungsregionen und lebensweltlich...

Grenzüberschreitende Direktinvestitionen aus dem Ausland (Foreign Direct Investment, FDI) sind sichtbare Kennzeichen einer erfolgreichen internationalen Wirtschaftsverflechtung. Das Ruhrgebiet ist als großer industrieller Ballungsraum das Ziel von Direktinvestitionen aus verschiedenen...

Die Krisenfestigkeit grenzüberschreitender Verflechtungsräume im Sinne des folgenden Beitrages bezieht sich auf die Fähigkeit von Räumen, flexibel auf Veränderungsprozesse und neue Herausforderungen reagieren zu können und ihre Lernfähigkeit zielgerichtet auf ihre Widerstands- und...

Auch 35 Jahre nach der deutschen Einheit wird in Politik und Öffentlichkeit weiterhin intensiv darüber diskutiert, welche Unterschiede zwischen Ost und West bestehen und wie weit das Land tatsächlich zusammengewachsen ist. Besonders deutlich treten diese Differenzen im politischen...

Dieses Policy Paper fasst Ergebnisse des Projekts "SOIR - Stark durch Offene Innovationsregionen" zusammen und zeigt fünf Handlungsfelder für eine innovationsorientierte Entwicklung ländlicher Regionen auf. Damit bietet es eine systematische Betrachtung regionaler Gestaltungsspielräume....

Das Klimaschutzgesetz (KSG) sieht eine Reduktion der deutschen Treibhausgasemissionen bis zum Jahr 2030 um 65% gegenüber den Emissionen im Jahr 1990 vor. Der Ausstieg aus der thermischen Verwertung der Kohle (vor allem der Braunkohle) leistet einen substanziellen Beitrag zum Erreichen dieser...

Rural roads, serving as vital links between remote areas and economic centers, play an indispensable role in rural development. This paper investigates the relationship between rural road development and various economic outcomes in China from 2008 to 2021. Based on comprehensive novel road...

As regional development becomes increasingly technically complex, technological capability has a growing influence on economic growth. Traditional theories predominantly concentrate on macro-level concepts, often overlooking the relationship between technological capability and regional economic...

The research develops an open innovation roadmap which enables Latvian regions to use carbon dioxide. The research combines stakeholder collaboration with spatial analysis and performance evaluation, environmental impact assessment, and economic feasibility studies. The roadmap evaluates several...

Digital innovation ecosystems (DIEs) are increasingly recognized as critical to regional green technological innovation (GTI), supporting ecological protection and sustainable development. This study uses panel qualitative comparative analysis (Panel-QCA) on data from 31 Chinese provinces...

Digital technologies promote economic progress. The digital economy drives the development of manufacturing. This paper explores the impact of the digital economy on the high-quality development of manufacturing using panel data from the Yangtze River Economic Belt in China. Employing the...

The 2011-2020 period is the final stage of poverty alleviation in China, which emphasizes regional development. Using county-level panel data from 2006 to 2015, we explore the impact of regional poverty alleviation policy on economic growth of contiguous destitute areas (CDAs) in China. The...

As tourism continues to grow worldwide, traditional destination planning models have faced criticism for neglecting environmental sustainability, socio-cultural preservation, and equitable economic distribution. This article examines how sustainable local development can be integrated into...