Development Issues and Strategies in the New Europe Book

	Preface
1	Theories of local endogenous development and international co-operation	1
2	Local planning and mobilization: Experiences from the Norwegian fringe	2l
3	EEC regional policy and the Integrated Mediterranean Programs	41
4	Relative regional welfare differences in the EC	53
5	Regional spill-over and the locational process in a European fringe: The case of the Spanish car industry	65
6	Approaches to the development of peripheral rural areas: Some lessons from the Irish experience	77
7	Local development efforts in Finland's rural communes	89
8	Provisory economy and regional development: Towards a conceptual integration of informal activities	101
9	The role of agriculture in the development of fringe areas	121
10	The role of urban centres in fringe areas	131
11	The role of centres in fringe area development	145
12	On the role of urban centres of fringe areas in Estonia	163
13	The economic role of producer services	171
14	The paradox of reductions in development in the East-Central European fringe areas	189
15	Local initiative networks as an instrument for the development of peripheral areas	203
16	Creatures of the centre? The uneasy relationship of central government with regional and local authorities in Ireland	211
17	The circular motion of planning: Top-down and bottom-up problems once again	221
	Contributors	226