Monoculture and polyculture in former industrial regions The case of South Wales and the Silesian Voivodeship

Grzegorz Libor () and Dorota Nowalska-Kapus´cik ()
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Grzegorz Libor: Institute of Sociology, University of Silesia (Katowice, Poland)
Dorota Nowalska-Kapus´cik: Institute of Sociology, University of Silesia (Katowice, Poland)

Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali, 2014, vol. 122, issue 4, 431-448

Abstract: The aim of the article is to compare the economic situation of two former industrial regions – South Wales and the Silesian voivodeship – from the point of view of the type of the economic culture. The cost-effectiveness of their narrow economic specialization is losing raison d’eˆtre today. This is not only a consequence of globalization, but also of economic crises enforcing a flexible adaptation of the regional markets to the requirements of the modern world. Generally, polycultural regions deal with the negative effects of economic difficulties better than monocultural ones. The authors have distinguished 5 indicators to assess how polycultural both regions are.

Keywords: South Wales; Silesian voivodeship; Economic culture; Regional development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A14 F61 L10 L70 L80 N94 R10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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