The European Challenge Geography and development in the European Community

by Blacksell, Mark; Williams, Allan M.

• ISBN13: 9780198741763
• ISBN10: 0198741766
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-05-26
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This timely volume examines how the advent of the European Community as a geopolitical entity has affected the geography and development of its member states, showing how the Community has influenced wide-ranging social and economic changes. The 1986 Single European Act has fundamentally changed the way in which resources are viewed, utilized, and managed in Europe. The globalization of economic processes is increasingly being matched by a Europeanization of political decision-making. All this has to be set against a growing concern about the need to manage available resources effectively, both for production and consumption. These concerns are expertly addressed in this book, which also offers an excellent introduction to the political evolution of the EC and the infrastructure for regional development. The book concludes with provocative and illuminating speculations about the future of the Community and Europe as a whole. The result of a collaboration in an EC ERASMUS teaching exchange program, the book features contributors whose national perspectives collectively provide a uniquely varied view of the late 20th-century geography of the EC countries.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. v
List of Contributors	p. ix
Summaries	p. 1
Introdudion	p. 87
Introduction	p. 88
The Development of the European Community: Its Spatial Dimension	p. 89
Further Reading	p. 106
The Urban Condition	p. 107
The Spatial Evolution of West European Cities, 1950-1990	p. 109
Further Reading	p. 126
Mediterranean Cities: Divergent Trends in a United Europe	p. 127
Further Reading	p. 147
Strutural Change	p. 149
The Pattern of Industry: Europeanization Versus Globalization	p. 153
Futher Reading	p. 194
European Community Transport Policy with Particular Reference to Ireland as a Peripheral Region	p. 196
Further Reading	p. 216
Migration and the Single Market for Labour: an Issue in Regional Development	p. 218
Further Reading	p. 241
Mobility and Illegal Labour in the Ec	p. 242
Further Reading	p. 254
Rural Adaptation	p. 255
Set-Aside and Landscape Preservation: the German Experience	p. 259
Further Reading	p. 271
The Common Agricultural Policy and the Development of Agriculture: Problems and Perspectives	p. 273
Further Reading	p. 300
Tourism: Opportunities, Challenges and Contradictions in the Ec	p. 301
Further Reading	p. 320
Environmental Response	p. 321
Environmental Policies and Resource Management	p. 323
Further Reading	p. 342
The Effects of Ec Policy on the Rural Landscape and Environment of Ireland	p. 343
Further Reading	p. 370
Conclusion	p. 391
Environment, Health, and Health Care: European Comparisons and an Italian Case-Study	p. 372
Development, Distribution, and the Environment: Future Challenges for Europe	p. 393
Further Reading	p. 390
Further Reading	p. 403
References	p. 404
Index	p. 421
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