Global Challenges and Regional Science

2025 - 2026

Current editor(s): Vicente Royuela

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Evaluating fiscal equalization in France: Redistributive performance, cost-efficiency, and needs alignment: Marie-Laure Breuillé, Laura Delmas, Camille Grivault and Julie Le Gallo
Food and commodity: The cross-border life of açaí: Eliane Superti, Handerson Luiz Ferreira Pinto and Nathalie Cialdella
Location-specific wage effects from offshoring and backshoring: Torben Dall Schmidt and Timo Mitze
Can hydrogen economy help addressing regional economic inequalities: A regional hydrogen integration framework: Weizhao Huang and Nazmiye Balta-Ozkan
What do regional governments write about climate change on their websites? A natural language processing study of German regions: Moritz Schütz, Sebastian Losacker and Stefan Hennemann
The impact of skills shortage on economic development in Germany – A mixed method approach: Tobias Johannes Hertrich and Thomas Brenner

What explains political trust in Latin America? Understanding the role of the urban-rural divide: Chiara Dalle Nogare, Chiara Ferrante, Nicola Pontarollo and Joselin Segovia
Transformation from green to brown: A geospatial analysis of urban expansion, urban heat environment, and agriculture land use conversion: Muhammad Ahsan, Muhammad Mashhood Arif, Ahmad Adeel and Nida Batool Sheikh
Pro-independence feelings and the economic impacts of a secession: a study for the region of Catalonia: Claudia V. Montanía, Alberto Franco-Solís, Esteban Fernández-Vázquez and Geoffrey J.D. Hewings

A second spatial autocorrelation mechanism: Geographic hierarchies and urban systems: Daniel A. Griffith, Bin Li, Marco Millones, Freddy Injoque, Braulio Quispe and Arturo Kerlim Villarino
Housing deprivation in rapidly urbanizing regions: evidence from functional urban areas in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia: Danny Granda, Luis Mateo-Peinado, Moisés Obaco and Jorge Urrutia-Mosquera
Measuring regional economic transformation: Which European regions are leading the competitiveness and sustainability challenge?: Anabela Santos and Andrea Conte

Navigating coastal resilience: Exploring population density and coastal distance dynamics along the gold coast: James Murphy, Ron Mahabir, Stuart Phinn and Daniel Arribas-Bel
An analysis of agricultural crop residue burning and urban air pollution in New Delhi, India: Amitrajeet Batabyal and Hamid Beladi
Resilience strategies of Danish firms in the pandemic and their regional differences: Nino Javakhishvili-Larsen, Bence Bøje-Kovács and Camilo Acosta
How can regional scientists keep contributing to climate and environmental economics?: Dall’erba, Sandy
Deluge of costs: Navigating the economic impacts of flooding in Egyptian port cities: Eduardo A. Haddad, Inácio F. Araújo, Dina N. Elshahawany, João Gabriel Sacco, Maria Carolina Rogelis-Prada, Antonios Pomonis, Guillermo Toyos and Hogeun Park
The great challenge for local labour markets. Lovely and lousy jobs in the digital era: Roberta Capello, Simona Ciappei and Camilla Lenzi

Overlapping payoffs and policy synergies: The case of CAP and EU cohesiveness: Pawel Chmieliński, Alan Collins, Adam Cox and Gianpiero Torrisi
The economic effect of splitting a region in a centralized country: A case from Chile: Sebastian Ritter
Assessing the impact of high energy prices on tourism in the EU: Matthias Weitzel, Rafael Garaffa and Camille Van der Vorst

Editorial: Vicente Royuela, Balazs Lengyel, Sarah Low and Raquel Ortega-Argiles
Labour demand in a ‘green megaproject’: Regional path creation or continuity following the entry of Northvolt?: Petrus Garefelt, Emelie Hane-Weijman and Rikard H. Eriksson
Two definitions of place-based policies: American and European approaches to fiscal equalization and regional development: Ugo Fratesi
The post-urban hypothesis: Hans Westlund and Kamila Borseková
WWII Bombing and the German City System: Back to the Synthetic Mean?: Duc A. Nguyen, Steven Brakman, Harry Garretsen and Tristan Kohl
Place-based policies – How to do them and why: Jens Suedekum
The drivers of regional discontent in the EU: Alexandra Sotiriou, George Petrakos and Stavroula Alexiou
The double dark side of regional back-shoring: Roberta Capello, Damares Lopes Afonso and Giovanni Perucca