Barry Ness⁎, Evelin Urbel-Piirsalu, Stefan Anderberg, Lennart Olsson Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS), PO Box 170, 221 00 Lund, Sweden Department of Social and Economic Geography, Lund University, Sölvegatan 10, Geocentrum I, 223 62 Lund, Sweden Stockholm Environment Institute Tallinn Centre, Box 160, 10502 Tallinn, Estonia Institute of Geography, University of Copenha...

ITH the future of the Doha Round uncertain, there has been a sharp increase in the number of bilateral and regional trade agreements. This has revived long-running arguments in international economics between those promoting global trade agreements and those favoring regional approaches. But in many ways this has been the wrong debate, especially for the world’s smallest, poorest, and most geog...

New Economic Geography models describe a cumulative process of spatial agglomeration. Firms tend to cluster in locations with good access to demand, and similarly, workers are drawn to regions with good access to sources of supply. This paper provides an empirical assessment of this forward linkage that relates labour migrations to the geography of production through real wage differentials. In...

The concept of embeddedness has gained much prominence in economic geography over the last decade, as much work has been done on the social and organisational foundations of economic activities and regional development. Unlike the original conceptualisations, however, embeddedness is mostly conceived of as a 'spatial' concept related to the local and regional levels of analysis. By re-visiting ...