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Exploring spatial disparities of work-shaped social vulnerability and resilience across the French Alps 探索法国阿尔卑斯山脉工作型社会脆弱性和复原力的空间差异

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Pub Date : 2025-10-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100261

Philippa Shepherd , Jean-Christophe Dissart

Work capability—the life opportunities afforded to people related to work—shape people’s broader social vulnerability and resilience. However, the opportunity to decent work varies significantly across people and places, depending on socio-demographic characteristics, local contextual factors, and labour market structures. Through a spatial autocorrelation analysis using principal components and composite indices, this study reveals significant spatial differentiation across the French Alps of work-shaped social vulnerability and resilience—that is, the broader social risks and capacities shaped by people’s employment situations and access to decent work opportunities. Clear disparities in work security versus precarity, and opportunity versus exclusion, show an uneven distribution, with some distinct north–south and east–west divisions. These spatial patterns appear shaped by both place-based factors and structural social dynamics. Urbanised valleys, rural high mountains, and peripheral prealpine areas show marked differences in people’s overall work opportunity. To avoid widening spatial inequalities, place-sensitive policies targeting marginal and vulnerable areas, and enhancing interconnectivity between hubs and peripheries, are crucial for Alpine vitality.

工作能力——提供给人们与工作相关的生活机会——塑造了人们更广泛的社会脆弱性和复原力。然而，由于社会人口特征、当地环境因素和劳动力市场结构的不同，人们和地方获得体面工作的机会差异很大。通过使用主成分和复合指数的空间自相关分析，本研究揭示了法国阿尔卑斯山地区工作型社会脆弱性和复原力的显著空间差异，即人们的就业状况和获得体面工作机会所形成的更广泛的社会风险和能力。在工作保障与不稳定、机会与排斥方面的明显差异表明，分布不均衡，存在一些明显的南北和东西分化。这些空间格局似乎是由基于地点的因素和结构性社会动态共同塑造的。城市化的山谷、农村的高山和外围的前高山地区在人们的总体工作机会上存在显著差异。为了避免扩大空间不平等，针对边缘和脆弱地区的地方敏感政策，以及加强中心和外围之间的互联互通，对阿尔卑斯山的活力至关重要。

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Pub Date : 2025-10-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100262

Amitrajeet A. Batabyal

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Supplemental reindustrialisation in hungary: Transcending the development trap 匈牙利的补充再工业化：超越发展陷阱

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Regional Science Policy and Practice

Pub Date : 2025-10-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100260

Gabor Lux

This paper discusses ongoing reindustrialisation processes in Hungary as an example of the evolving geographic complexity of industrial development in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has played a key role in reintegrating CEE regions into global value chains as part of an “integrated periphery”, but this growth model has also come with trade-offs, and shows signs of recent exhaustion. Simultaneously, the spatial patterns of industry have become more complex as deepening integration, industrial upgrading, and geographic expansion have taken place in different regional contexts. This paper introduces the concept of supplemental reindustrialisation as a new phase of development in integrated peripheries, defined as a qualitative shift in FDI’s regional development role combining path exhaustion and a collective exploration of new growth opportunities. Supplemental reindustrialisation results in geographic broadening, deepening FDI embeddedness, and a growing variety of foreign and domestic actors involved in emerging territorial networks. The concept explains the ongoing shift in integral peripheries from their emergence in CEE to an era where the FDI-driven growth model undergoes internal transformation while facing increasing growth constraints. The resulting geographies of Hungarian industry show growth limits, but also signs of positive long-term adaptation. Using county-level (NUTS-3) statistics, we find gradually decreasing duality, an improving foreign/domestic fit, increasing innovation adoption, and the growing role of regional asset bases and local agency in successful industrial restructuring. This suggests that the regional development trap, discussed in contemporary development discourse, may be transcended over time.

本文讨论了匈牙利正在进行的再工业化进程，作为中欧和东欧（CEE）工业发展的地理复杂性演变的一个例子。作为“一体化外围”的一部分，外国直接投资（FDI）在将中东欧地区重新纳入全球价值链方面发挥了关键作用，但这种增长模式也伴随着权衡，并显示出最近枯竭的迹象。与此同时，在不同的区域背景下，随着一体化的深化、产业升级和地域扩张，产业空间格局变得更加复杂。本文引入了补充再工业化概念，将其作为整合外围地区发展的一个新阶段，将其定义为FDI在区域发展中角色的质的转变，结合路径枯竭和对新增长机会的集体探索。补充再工业化的结果是地域扩大，FDI嵌入加深，以及越来越多的国内外参与者参与新兴的领土网络。这一概念解释了整体外围地区正在发生的转变，从它们在中东欧的出现，到一个由外国直接投资驱动的增长模式经历内部转型的时代，同时面临越来越多的增长限制。由此产生的匈牙利工业的地理分布显示出增长的局限性，但也显示出积极的长期适应迹象。利用国家级（NUTS-3）统计数据，我们发现二元性逐渐减少，国外/国内契合度提高，创新采用率提高，区域资产基础和地方机构在成功的产业结构调整中的作用越来越大。这表明，在当代发展话语中讨论的区域发展陷阱可能会随着时间的推移而被超越。

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Leaving no one behind: Understanding the distribution of poverty and inequality in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh 不让任何人掉队：了解孟加拉国吉大港山区的贫困和不平等分布

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Regional Science Policy and Practice

Pub Date : 2025-10-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100259

Golam Rasul , Apsara Karki Nepal

Poverty remains a formidable development challenge in many developing countries. The Sustainable Development Goals aim to eradicate poverty, reduce inequality, and eliminate discrimination, ensuring that no one is left behind. To design effective policies, it is essential to understand the nature, causes, and spatial distribution of poverty. This paper uses nationally representative data to examine the status, trends, and drivers of multidimensional poverty, along with its spatial distribution and underlying causes in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), a hilly region of Bangladesh that is home to 12 ethnic communities. Despite national progress in poverty reduction, the CHT has lagged behind, with approximately 46 % of its population living in poverty. Food insecurity also remains a serious concern; 25 % of households are food insecure, facing multiple and overlapping sources of deprivation. Many households lack access to electricity, quality housing, livelihood assets, safe drinking water, healthcare services, and quality education. The persistence of poverty in the CHT is linked to geographic isolation, poor infrastructure, ethnic marginalization, and limited economic opportunities. These interrelated challenges create overlapping deprivations that are difficult to overcome. To effectively address these issues, the Bangladesh government must adopt a holistic approach that considers geographic, territorial, and cultural differences, as well as the rights and interests of tribal people.

贫困仍然是许多发展中国家面临的巨大发展挑战。可持续发展目标旨在消除贫困、减少不平等和消除歧视，确保不让任何一个人掉队。要设计有效的政策，就必须了解贫困的性质、原因和空间分布。本文利用具有全国代表性的数据，考察了孟加拉国吉大港山区（CHT）多维贫困的现状、趋势和驱动因素，以及其空间分布和根本原因。吉大港山区是孟加拉国的一个丘陵地区，居住着12个民族社区。尽管全国在减少贫困方面取得了进展，但东帝汶仍然落后，大约46% 的人口生活在贫困中。粮食不安全也是一个严重问题；25% %的家庭粮食不安全，面临多重和重叠的贫困来源。许多家庭无法获得电力、优质住房、生计资产、安全饮用水、医疗保健服务和优质教育。CHT地区持续存在的贫困与地理隔离、基础设施落后、族裔边缘化和经济机会有限有关。这些相互关联的挑战造成了难以克服的重叠剥夺。为了有效地解决这些问题，孟加拉国政府必须采取全面的方法，考虑地理、领土和文化差异，以及部落人民的权利和利益。

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Spatial spillover effects on the support for populist radical right parties in Slovakia 斯洛伐克民粹主义极右翼政党支持的空间溢出效应

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Regional Science Policy and Practice

Pub Date : 2025-10-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100258

Štefan Rehák, Dana Kuběnková

Populist radical right parties known for populist, anti-immigrant, and Eurosceptic stances have gained varying electoral support in the European Union. Slovakia is no exception and this study investigates the determinants of support for populist radical right parties in Slovakia, focusing on spatial spillover effects and regional disparities. Using spatial econometric models and panel data from 79 Slovak districts across three election cycles (2016, 2020, 2023), the analysis identifies both contextual and compositional factors influencing PRRP support. By integrating advanced spatial econometric approaches, we revealed that variations in PRRP support arise not only from the characteristics of a specific region (direct effect) but also from the influence of neighboring regions' characteristics (indirect effect), emphasizing the role of spatial interdependencies in shaping political preferences. The study highlights the need for regionally coordinated policies to address economic inequalities and foster social cohesion. Findings of this study contribute to the broader discourse on populism and regional development in CEE, underscoring the importance of targeted interventions in lagging regions to mitigate the spread of populist narratives and strengthen democratic resilience.

以民粹主义、反移民和欧洲怀疑主义立场著称的民粹主义激进右翼政党在欧盟获得了不同程度的选举支持。斯洛伐克也不例外，本研究调查了斯洛伐克民粹主义极右翼政党支持的决定因素，重点关注空间溢出效应和地区差异。利用空间计量经济模型和来自79个斯洛伐克选区的三个选举周期（2016年、2020年和2023年）的面板数据，分析确定了影响PRRP支持率的背景和构成因素。通过整合先进的空间计量经济学方法，我们揭示了PRRP支持的变化不仅来自特定区域的特征（直接效应），还来自邻近区域特征的影响（间接效应），强调了空间相互依赖性在塑造政治偏好中的作用。该研究强调需要采取区域协调政策来解决经济不平等和促进社会凝聚力。本研究的结果有助于更广泛地讨论民粹主义和中东欧地区的区域发展，强调了在落后地区进行有针对性的干预以减轻民粹主义叙事的传播和加强民主韧性的重要性。

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The geography of mining and its environmental impact in Europe 欧洲采矿地理及其对环境的影响

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Regional Science Policy and Practice

Pub Date : 2025-10-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100256

Andrea Bastianin , Chiara F. Del Bo , Luqman Shamsudin

We map the mining sector in Europe, with a focus on Energy Transition Metals (ETMs), and present an in-depth analysis of the environmental impact and associated monetary costs, at the regional level, of extraction activities. We aim to offer a spatially disaggregated view of the current mining projects and associated environmental costs in terms of CO₂ emissions and their monetary value in order to add to the debate of policy interventions, including new mining activities in Europe, to secure the needed materials to fuel the green transition. To do this, we collected global warming potential (GWP) data from Life Cycle Assessment Impact Analysis (LCIA) and linked these to their expected monetary value. By considering the full spectrum of sourced ETMs, we map the environmental, physical, and monetary impact of current mining activities in Europe, and understand what a further increase in exploiting European reserves to reduce dependence from abroad and facilitate the achievement of Europe’s green goals, could imply for European regions, while accounting for the uneven distribution of mining resources, and thus associated costs, across Europe.

我们绘制了欧洲采矿业的地图，重点是能源过渡金属（ETMs），并在区域层面上对开采活动的环境影响和相关货币成本进行了深入分析。我们的目标是就二氧化碳排放及其货币价值提供当前采矿项目和相关环境成本的空间分类视图，以便增加政策干预的辩论，包括欧洲的新采矿活动，以确保所需的材料为绿色转型提供动力。为此，我们从生命周期评估影响分析（LCIA）中收集了全球变暖潜势（GWP）数据，并将这些数据与它们的预期货币价值联系起来。通过考虑来源etm的全部范围，我们绘制了欧洲当前采矿活动对环境、物理和货币的影响，并了解进一步增加开采欧洲储量以减少对国外的依赖并促进欧洲绿色目标的实现，对欧洲地区可能意味着什么，同时考虑到整个欧洲采矿资源分布不均，因此相关成本。

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Endogenous Cohesion Policy 内生性内聚政策

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Regional Science Policy and Practice

Pub Date : 2025-09-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100255

George Petrakos, Alexandra Sotiriou, Stavroula Alexiou

Cohesion Policy (CP) is the European Union’s main instrument to address regional disparities and promote convergence. Yet, over the past two decades, spatial inequalities within the Union have widened, raising concerns about the effectiveness of CP and its ability to confront the structural deficiencies of lagging regions. This paper examines the allocation of CP funding across EU regions, assessing whether it is endogenously determined, prioritizing and addressing the underlying socio-economic and structural gaps or is shaped by other drivers. Using a panel econometric model with NUTS II regional data covering three programming periods (2000–2006, 2007–2013, 2014–2020), we examine the responsiveness of allocations to six dimensions of regional disparities as well as to institutional and political factors. The results reveal a complex and sometimes contradictory pattern: although CP shows partial responsiveness to regional needs, it remains insufficiently targeted to structural deficiencies such as infrastructure and investment gaps in weaker regions, while the concentration of decision-making power at the top ranks of EC administration, as well as political considerations related to the European Parliament representation, affect the allocation of resources.

凝聚力政策（CP）是欧盟解决地区差异和促进融合的主要工具。然而，在过去的二十年中，欧盟内部的空间不平等扩大了，这引起了人们对CP的有效性及其应对落后地区结构性缺陷的能力的担忧。本文考察了欧盟各地区CP资金的分配，评估它是由内部决定的，优先考虑和解决潜在的社会经济和结构差距，还是由其他驱动因素形成。利用涵盖三个规划期（2000-2006年、2007-2013年、2014-2020年）的NUTS II区域数据的面板计量模型，研究了分配对区域差异的六个维度以及制度和政治因素的响应性。结果揭示了一个复杂的，有时是矛盾的模式：虽然CP显示了对区域需求的部分响应，但它仍然没有充分针对结构缺陷，如较弱地区的基础设施和投资差距，而欧共体行政高层决策权的集中，以及与欧洲议会代表有关的政治考虑，影响了资源的分配。

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Regional innovation policies in favor of doing-using interacting (DUI) innovations in lagging regions: What about the perceptions of local SMEs? 区域创新政策有利于落后地区的使用互动（DUI）创新：当地中小企业的看法如何？

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Regional Science Policy and Practice

Pub Date : 2025-09-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100254

Christoph Friedrich , Rolf Sternberg

The ability and willingness to innovate are recognized as being among the most important conditions for improving the performance of economically lagging regions.Regional innovation policies can help such regions to catch up, which is why the EU Commission, the EU member states and many of their subnational regions have created corresponding regional innovation policies, in some cases with a considerable volume of funding. However, after decades of such policies, interregional economic disparities have not been significantly reduced in many countries. The economically and innovatively weaker regions usually lack the necessary funds to develop corresponding regional innovation promotion programs themselves. This paper is dedicated to an aspect of this problem that has not been addressed enough to date: the viewpoint of small- and medium-sized firms in the target regions of such regional innovation policies. We pay particular attention to both innovation modes: the Science-Technology-Innovation (STI) mode and the Doing-Using-Interacting (DUI) mode, applying a recent categorization of DUI indicators when checking for their innovation policy relevance. We also differentiate between lagging regions in a rural context and in an urban one. Based on extensive qualitative data from six structurally weak German regions and 59 enterprises, we draw empirically sound conclusions on the effectiveness of such policies, focusing on seven fields of policy action. In addition, we are developing proposals on how such policies can be modified in future so that they simultaneously satisfy the needs of the target group and increase the innovative performance of lagging regions.

创新的能力和意愿被认为是提高经济落后地区绩效的最重要条件之一。区域创新政策可以帮助这些地区迎头赶上，这就是为什么欧盟委员会、欧盟成员国及其许多次国家区域制定了相应的区域创新政策，在某些情况下提供了大量资金。然而，在实行这种政策几十年后，许多国家的区域间经济差距并没有显著缩小。经济和创新能力较弱的地区往往缺乏必要的资金来制定相应的区域创新促进计划。本文致力于这个问题的一个方面，迄今为止还没有得到足够的解决：在这种区域创新政策的目标地区的中小企业的观点。我们特别关注两种创新模式：科学-技术-创新（STI）模式和行动-使用-互动（DUI）模式，并在检查其创新政策相关性时应用最新的DUI指标分类。我们还区分农村落后地区和城市落后地区。基于来自德国6个结构薄弱地区和59家企业的大量定性数据，我们对这些政策的有效性得出了经验上合理的结论，重点关注政策行动的7个领域。此外，我们正在就未来如何修改这些政策提出建议，以使其同时满足目标群体的需求并提高落后地区的创新绩效。

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The role of non-profit organizations in territorial cohesion in cross-border regions 非营利组织在跨界区域领土凝聚力中的作用

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Regional Science Policy and Practice

Pub Date : 2025-09-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100253

Oto Potluka , Lina Schubnell , Eduardo Medeiros , Milan Weller

Cross-border regions usually suffer from barriers hindering networking and creating contact among people. On a sample of 244 non-profit organizations (NPOs) in the Upper-Rhine region at the French, German, and Swiss borders, the research used partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) to investigate how NPOs contribute to social capital creation and cross-border territorial cohesion, via the reduction of persistent cross-border barriers. Results show that NPOs are similar to other types of stakeholders. They are primarily oriented at the local level, not towards cross-border cohesion. The primary networking and regional social capital creation are implemented throughout business activities. Barriers influencing cross-border territorial cohesion show that NPOs can effectively overcome them. For that, NPOs in all three countries in our sample follow similar values and principles of work.

跨境地区通常会遇到阻碍人们建立联系和建立联系的障碍。在法国、德国和瑞士边境的上莱茵地区244家非营利组织（NPOs）的样本中，研究使用偏最小二乘结构方程模型（PLS-SEM）来研究非营利组织如何通过减少持续的跨境壁垒来促进社会资本创造和跨境领土凝聚力。结果表明，非营利组织与其他类型的利益相关者相似。它们主要面向地方一级，而不是跨境凝聚力。初级网络和区域社会资本创造贯穿于商业活动之中。影响跨界地域凝聚力的障碍表明，非营利组织可以有效地克服这些障碍。为此，我们样本中三个国家的非营利组织都遵循类似的价值观和工作原则。

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Regional disparities, social welfare and economic development 地区差距、社会福利和经济发展

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Regional Science Policy and Practice

Pub Date : 2025-09-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100252

Carolina Guevara-Rosero

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