Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society

Volume 1 - 18

Current editor(s): Judith Clifton, Anna Davies, Betsy Donald, Emil Evenhuis, Stefania Fiorentino (Associate Editor), Harry Garretsen, Meric Gertler, Amy Glasmeier, Mia Gray, Robert Hassink, Dieter Kogler, Michael Kitson, Linda Lobao, Charles van Marrewijk, Ron Martin, Peter Sunley, Peter Tyler and Chun Yang

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Volume 18, issue 1, 2025

Global forces and local impacts: megatrends in regional development pp. 1-16

Harry Garretsen, Michael Kitson and Chun Yang

The right kind of growth for everyone: policy challenges during the digital and green transformations pp. 17-24

Diane Coyle

Demography and income in the 21st century: a long-run perspective pp. 25-40

Steven Brakman, Tristan Kohl and Charles van Marrewijk

Population concentration in high-complexity regions within city during the heat wave pp. 41-56

Hyoji Choi, Jonghyun Kim, Donghyeon Yu and Bogang Jun

Understanding the role of oil and gas companies in the current sustainability trends: an application of the sustainable business model archetypes pp. 57-78

Jaime Menéndez-Sánchez, Jorge Fernández-Gómez and Andrés Araujo- de-la-Mata

Demographic ageing: an opportunity to rethink economy, society and regions pp. 79-92

Mildred E Warner, Xue Zhang and Jonathan Guillemot

Global digital networks pp. 93-110

Matthew Zook and Michael Grote

Integrating artificial intelligence into regional technological domains: the role of intra- and extra-regional AI relatedness pp. 111-130

Yijia Chen and Kangmin Wu

The polarisation of Italian metropolitan areas, 2000–2018: structural change, technology and growth pp. 131-156

Giuseppe Simone

Deglobalization: three scenarios pp. 157-166

Peter A G van Bergeijk

Inward FDI and regional performance in Europe after the Great Recession pp. 167-192

Riccardo Crescenzi and Roberto Ganau

The potential benefits of regionally differentiated Covid-19 policies pp. 193-210

Mark Thissen, Frank van Oort and Anet Weterings

Firm interconnectedness and resilience: evidence from the Italian manufacturing pp. 211-226

Ibrahim Shaheen, Steven Brakman, Jacopo Canello and Harry Garretsen

Rural areas as winners of COVID-19, digitalization and remote working? Empirical evidence from recent internal migration in Germany pp. 227-248

Louis Knuepling, Rolf Sternberg and Anne Otto

The age of crisis pp. 249-254

Peter Frankopan

Volume 17, issue 3, 2024

Critical geographies of the circular economy pp. 431-442

Anna R Davies, XEmil Evenhuis, Joanna Willams, Emma Avoyan and Peter Tyler

Strategies for circular economy in the Nordics: a comparative analysis of directionality pp. 443-457

Mari Wardeberg, Henrik Brynthe Lund, Jens Hanson, Riina Kärki, Linda Rekosuo, Anna Tenhuen-Lunkka and Sarianna Palola

Exploring circular economy transition pathways: a roadmap analysis of 15 Canadian local governments pp. 459-481

Juste Rajaonson and Chedrak Chembessi

Construction minerals as part of an urban circular economy? A multi-scalar study of the city of Oslo and its hinterland pp. 483-494

Bjørnar Sæther

‘Let’s brew a new Brussels’: imaginaries of the circular economy pp. 495-516

Deborah Lambert

Mapping the emergence of the circular economy within the governance paths of shrinking cities and regions: a comparative study of Parkstad Limburg (NL) and Satakunta (FI) pp. 517-534

Marjan Marjanović and Joanna Williams

Amsterdam’s circular economy at a world-ecological crossroads: postcapitalist degrowth or the next regime of capital accumulation? pp. 535-550

Matthew Thompson, Charlotte Cator, XDavid Beel, Ian Rees Jones, Martin Jones and Kevin Morgan

The role of place in the development of a circular economy: a critical analysis of potential for social redistribution in Hull, UK pp. 551-564

Pauline Deutz, Andrew E G Jonas, Aodhan Newsholme, Małgorzata Pusz, Heather A Rogers, Julia Affolderbach, Rupert J Baumgartner and Tomás B Ramos

‘Mattering’ the circular economy: tackling the Achilles’ heel of sustainable places via adopting a critical-relational perspective pp. 565-576

XAksel Ersoy and Arnoud Lagendijk

Tensions and duality in developing a circular fashion economy in Kenya pp. 577-590

Lauren England, Eka Ikpe and Roberta Comunian

Responsibility fixes: patching up circular economy value chains pp. 591-603

Anna Barford and Saffy Rose Ahmad

Towards a territorialisation of the circular economy: the proximity of stakeholders and resources matters pp. 605-622

Chedrak Chembessi, XSébastien Bourdin and Andre Torre

Learning from the best: how regional knowledge stimulates circular economy transition at company level pp. 623-635

Rahel Meili, Tobias Stucki and Ingrid Kissling-Näf

How can a regional innovation system meet circular economy challenges? Conceptualization and empirical insights from Germany pp. 637-648

Martina Fromhold-Eisebith

Missing missions or partial missions? Translating circular economy directionality into place-based transformative action pp. 649-665

Nick Clifton, Carla De Laurentis, Katie Beverley and Gary Walpole

Localised waste reduction networks, global destruction networks and the circular economy pp. 667-682

John R Bryson, Andrew Herod, Jennifer Johns and Vida Vanchan

The limits of waste as a resource: a critique and a proposition towards a new scalar imagination for the circular economy model pp. 683-697

Stylianos Zavos and Olli Pyyhtinen

Finding land for the circular economy: territorial dynamics and spatial experimentation in the post-industrial city pp. 699-715

Jasmin Baumgartner, David Bassens and Niels De Temmerman

Towards a Territorial and Political Ecology of “circular bioeconomy”: a 30-year review of metabolism studies pp. 717-731

Simon Joxe and Jean-Baptiste Bahers

The weed, asbestos pipe and disposable tree: unmuting multispecies Flemish and Norwegian circular site stories for diverse circular economies pp. 733-750

Wendy Wuyts

Volume 17, issue 2, 2024

‘Left behind places’: What can be done about them? pp. 259-274

Stefania Fiorentino, Amy K Glasmeier, Linda Lobao, Ron Martin and Peter Tyler

Geographies of discontent: measuring and understanding the feeling of abandonment in the Chilean region of Valparaiso (2019–2021) pp. 275-292

Pedro Fierro, Ignacio Aravena-Gonzalez, Patricio Aroca and Francisco Rowe

Gathering round Big Tech: How the market for acquisitions concentrates the digital sector pp. 293-306

Carolin Ioramashvili, Maryann Feldman, Frederick Guy and Simona Iammarino

High-tech development for “left behind” places: lessons-learnt from the Ruhr cybersecurity ecosystem pp. 307-322

Anna Butzin and Franz Flögel

Building distributive populism: basic income and political alternatives to ethno-nationalism pp. 323-338

Marc Doussard

The green transition and its potential territorial discontents pp. 339-358

Andrés Rodríguez-Pose and Federico Bartalucci

Obstacles to local cooperation in fragmented, left-behind economies: an integrated framework pp. 359-374

Kira Gartzou-Katsouyanni

Empowering left-behind places in Southwest China: participation in coffee value chains as place-based development pp. 375-392

Junxi Qian, Yuan Zeng, Xueqiong Tang and Xiaohui Hu

Can infrastructure help ‘left behind’ places ‘catch up?’ Theorizing the role of built infrastructure in regional development pp. 393-406

Grete Gansauer, Julia H Haggerty, Kristin K Smith, Mark N Haggerty and Kelli F Roemer

Mustering the political will to help left-behind places in a polarized USA pp. 407-416

Lisa R Pruitt

What do we owe a place? How the debate about left-behind places is challenging how we distribute public funding and the problems it should address pp. 417-424

Lewis Dijkstra

What does it mean to be ‘left behind?’ pp. 425-430

Ann M Eisenberg

Volume 17, issue 1, 2024

‘Left behind places’: what are they and why do they matter? pp. 1-16

Stefania Fiorentino, Amy K Glasmeier, Linda Lobao, Ron Martin and Peter Tyler

Social ties, trust and the geography of discontent pp. 17-36

Lawrence McKay, Will Jennings and Gerry Stoker

Who gets left behind by left behind places? pp. 37-58

Dylan S Connor, Aleksander K BergArizona, Tom Kemeny and Peter J Kedron

Barriers to social inclusion and levels of urbanisation: Does it matter where you live? pp. 59-74

Adele Whelan, Anne Devlin and Seamus McGuinness

Are rural firms left behind? Firm location and perceived job attractiveness of high-skilled workers pp. 75-86

Sabrina Jeworrek and Matthias Brachert

Three types of income inequality: a comparison of left behind places and more developed regions in the EU pp. 87-102

Alessandra Faggian, Alessandra Michelangeli and Kateryna Tkach

Coastal towns as ‘left-behind places’: economy, environment and planning pp. 103-116

Stefania Fiorentino, Franziska Sielker and John Tomaney

Territorial identity and left-behind places: evidence from the central Italian Apennines from a time perspective pp. 117-136

Gabriele Morettini and Fabiano Compagnucci

Left-behind places in central and eastern Europe—labour productivity aspect pp. 137-162

Pawel Dobrzanski, Sebastian Bobowski and Karenjit Clare

Defining left behind places: an internationally comparative poset analysis pp. 163-180

Flavio Comim, Maria Abreu and Carolina Guinesi Mattos Borges

Getting left behind? The localised consequences of exclusion from the credit market for UK SMEs pp. 181-200

Marc Cowling, Ross Brown, Weixi Liu and Augusto Rocha

The role of time and space in the identification of left behind regions: a case study of Denmark pp. 201-218

Sigrid JessenNordregio

Relational hinterlands in the USA have become disconnected from major global centres pp. 219-234

Maximilian Buchholz and Harald Bathelt

Left behind places in Brazil: the dynamics of regional inequalities and public policies in the early 21st century pp. 235-248

Humberto Martins

Persistently poor, left-behind and chronically disconnected pp. 249-258

Kenan Fikri