Covering the four Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden plus the Faroe Islands, this volume charts the changes in networking activities and related development initiatives that have taken place over the last ten years.
How regions and cities adapt to a Network Society and a globalized environment, the policies they pursue and how structures of governance are transformed in the pursuit of those policies are major themes in this volume. These issues are addressed with specific reference to the Nordic regions of Europe. Covering the four Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden plus the Faroe Islands, this volume charts the changes in networking activities and related development initiatives that have taken place over the last ten years. This means analysing regions in their pursuit of new policies, partnerships and styles of representation. Through this process regions are becoming partners and players in European integration and a movement of integrative regionalism is taking shape which is different from inward looking identity regionalism or self-centred competitive regionalism and takes regions beyond lobbying in Brussels.
Contents: Preface; The rise of the networking region: the challenges of
regional collaboration in a globalized world, Harald Baldersheim and Morten
ĆgĆ„rd; The Nordic regions: institutional development and public debate
1996-2009, Siv Sandberg; Knowledge brokerage and institutional retooling:
policy preferences for regional development in a competitive world, Harald
Baldersheim; Learning ecologies: capacity-building in Nordic regions and
cities through cross-institutional and cross-border cooperation, Harald
Baldersheim and Morten ĆgĆ„rd; Regions in the European architecture of
governance: towards integrative regionalism. The attitudes of regional
policy-makers, Harald Baldersheim; Transforming governance in cities and
regions in the Nordic countries: adapting to 'the new citizen'?, Harald
Baldersheim and Morten ĆgĆ„rd; Informatization of political roles and
communication patterns: regional advantages through information and
communication technologies?, Are Vegard Haug; 'The new kid on the block':
Faroese foreign affairs - between hierarchy and network, Joan ĆlavsdĆ³ttir,
Jens Christian Svabo Justinussen and Beinta Ć JĆ”kupsstovu; Building
learning ecologies: what works and how? The examples of the county councils
of Telemark and Aust-Agder (Norway), JĆørgen Sande Lysa and Morten ĆgĆ„rd;
International cooperation of the new Danish regions: lifeline or last rites?
The case of Southern Denmark, Niels Ejersbo; Cultural policies as development
strategies in Nordic regions - a comparison of two projects, Aase Marthe J.
Horrigmo; Conclusion: the policy nexus in network governance, Harald
Baldersheim, Are Vegard Haug and Morten ĆgĆ„rd; Bibliography; Index.
Harald Baldersheim, University of Oslo, Norway, Are Vegard Haug and Morten ĆgĆ„rd, University of Agder, Norway
More info about Taylor & Francis e-books