Human development is fundamentally dependent on the state of the environment. ‘Planetary boundaries’ define a set of limits with regard to the environmental conditions on the planet within which human…
In deze studie licht het PBL toe waarom politieke keuzes nodig zijn als het Rijk de brede welvaart wil behouden of bevorderen in elke regio, en om welk typen keuzes het gaat. Naast inzicht in hoe de…
Waar zijn de banen in Nederland? Veranderingen 1996-2022
Het PBL heeft onderzocht hoe de verdeling van banen over Nederland is veranderd tussen 1996 en 2022 en of dat gepaard is gegaan met een verlies aan banen en minder kans op werk in sommige regio’s…
Territorial impacts of COVID-19 and policy answers in European regions and cities
The Covid-19 pandemic has caused an unprecedented crisis of social, political and economic systems throughout Europe and the world. Since March 2020, European authorities have taken diverse measures…
Renewing industrial regions? Advanced manufacturing and industrial policy in Britain
In many countries, industrial policy is back in vogue. One of these countries is the United Kingdom, where it is hoped that industrial policy can provide a further boost to advanced manufacturing…
Evaluation of EIB Cohesion financing (2007 to 2018)
The EU treaties entrust the European Investment Bank (EIB) with supporting the reduction of regional disparities in the Union, notably by financing projects in less-developed EU regions. The…
Rethinking the political economy of place: challenges of productivity and inclusion
The global financial crisis of 2007–2008 revealed longer term systemic problems in global capitalism, two of the most prominent being the slowdown in the underlying trend in productivity growth and a…
The SUPER project (Sustainable urbanization and land-use Practices in European Regions) analysed land-use changes in Europe since 2000 and provided insight on how to enhance the sustainability of…
The COVID-19 crisis and manufacturing: How should UK national and local industrial strategies respond?
The ongoing COVID-19 crisis, and related recession, represents one of the biggest shocks to the UK manufacturing ecosystem yet, and comes at a time when that ecosystem was already in a worrying…
Theorising in urban and regional studies: negotiating generalisation and particularity
This open access paper is an introduction to an issue of CJRES (Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society), dedicated to the question of how, in urban and regional studies, one goes about…
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