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Economic change and regional development in Portugal
No full textThis chapter discusses the relationship between economic transition and the changed urban and regional system in Portugal. It considers the nature of economic modernisation and growth within Portugal and focuses on the profound sectoral changes experienced over the last 25 years. The chapter explores the relationships between sectoral change and uneven regional development, both at the national level and through the analysis of a number of selected regional case examples. It discusses how the interrelationship between processes of economic change and specific regional contexts produced very different regional dynamics. Economic transition rooted within existing patterns of uneven development characterised by the restructuring of traditional industrial centres, the growth of new centres of economic activity and the changed insertion of traditional marginal rural areas. Finally the chapter examines the policy issues raised by these changes and identifies the principal challenges for local and regional development policy in Portugal at the start of the twenty-first century
Making the links: economic deprivation, neighbourhood renewal and scales of governance
No full textNorth D. and Syrett S. Making the links: economic deprivation, neighbourhood renewel and scales of governance, Regional Studies. A policy focus of the New Labour Government in the UK has been upon attempts to tackle problems of concentrations of deprivation at the neighbourhood scale. This paper presents evidence from five local authority districts to consider how issues of scale matter in seeking to address such problems and the institutional arrangements and policies currently in place to improve their economic prospects. The results demonstrate that for economic deprivation to be tackled more effectively requires both a clearer specification of the rationale for the kind of intervention needed and improved integration and coordination of strategies and actions across spatial scales
Governing London: challenges for the new economic governance
No full textThis book emerged out of a one day conference at Middlesex University on 4th February 2000
Changing times, changing styles: new forms of economic governance in London
No full textThis book emerged out of a one day conference at Middlesex University on 4th February 2000
Integrating entrepreneurship with urban and neighbourhood studies: lessons for future research
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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