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Exploring spatial disparities of work-shaped social vulnerability and resilience across the French Alps 探索法国阿尔卑斯山脉工作型社会脆弱性和复原力的空间差异

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Regional Science Policy and Practice Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100261

Philippa Shepherd , Jean-Christophe Dissart

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The impact of Internet Para Todos (IPT) in providing connectivity in Peru Internet Para Todos （IPT）在秘鲁提供连通性方面的影响

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Regional Science Policy and Practice Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100271

Sofía Montesinos Vidal , Juan Jung , Raúl Katz

{"title":"The impact of Internet Para Todos (IPT) in providing connectivity in Peru","authors":"Sofía Montesinos Vidal , Juan Jung , Raúl Katz","doi":"10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100271","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100271","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Access to the internet in isolated areas is still a challenge for many developing countries, especially in those that present a complex geography such as Peru. In 2018, the Internet Para Todos (IPT) initiative was launched in the country as a public-private organization aimed at reducing the digital divide through an innovative business model based on interoperable technological infrastructure. This study analyzes the impact that IPT has had on the country's connectivity using differences-in-differences regression models. We rely on department-level coverage data provided by IPT, as well as on outcome variables from the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI). Our results demonstrate that IPT has had a positive impact on reducing the digital divide in Peru, according to several metrics. Moreover, the territories more favored by the initiative seemed to be those with lower income, lower education levels, the less connected ones and those facing more difficult geographic conditions. These results provide support to initiatives aimed at replicating the IPT model in other countries with similar connectivity issues and characteristics to those of Peru.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":45520,"journal":{"name":"Regional Science Policy and Practice","volume":"18 2","pages":"Article 100271"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145658887","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Exploring stakeholder perceptions of wildlife tourism in the Mudumu North Complex, Zambezi region, Namibia: Implications for sustainable community-based conservation 探讨利益相关者对纳米比亚赞比西地区Mudumu North Complex野生动物旅游的看法：对可持续社区保护的影响

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Regional Science Policy and Practice Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100268

M.N. Shimhanda , P.K. Mogomotsi , L.P. Rutina , O.T. Thakadu

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Regional polycentricity and spatial disparities: Panacea or outcome? Evidence from the Tehran metropolitan region, Iran 区域多中心与空间差异：灵丹妙药还是结果？证据来自伊朗德黑兰大都市区

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Regional Science Policy and Practice Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100276

Sadegh Saeidishirvan, Hashem Dadashpoor, Mojtaba Refieian

{"title":"Regional polycentricity and spatial disparities: Panacea or outcome? Evidence from the Tehran metropolitan region, Iran","authors":"Sadegh Saeidishirvan, Hashem Dadashpoor, Mojtaba Refieian","doi":"10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100276","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100276","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study challenges the conventional assumption that polycentric urban development inherently reduces spatial inequalities. Focusing on the Tehran Metropolitan Region between 2010 and 2020, it demonstrates that housing affordability crises can actively generate—rather than mitigate—polycentric structures. Using satellite-derived built-up data (GHSL) and 572,198 housing transactions, the analysis reveals a marked increase in morphological polycentricity, as indicated by a flattening of the rank-size slope (from −1.558–1.343). Simultaneously, core urban areas experienced severe erosion in affordability, with the purchasing power of median-income households declining by 40–59 % in premium districts. This affordability pressure drove disproportionate peripheral expansion, with low-cost counties experiencing an average built-up growth of 76 %, compared to just 4.8 % in the high-priced Tehran. A spatial threshold analysis (5 m²/year of purchasing power) shows a sharp contraction in affordable zones—from 19 to 9 districts—tracing a center-to-periphery displacement pattern. Notably, Tehran and Shemiranat emerge as a continuous exclusionary zone, replicating inequality dynamics across administrative boundaries. These findings invert prevailing policy orthodoxy by showing that polycentricity can result from spatial exclusion, rather than serving as a corrective to it. Without coordinated measures to preserve affordability, decentralized urban growth may deepen—rather than resolve—spatial inequities. The study offers important implications for Global South megacities grappling with similar affordability crises and fragmented regional governance.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":45520,"journal":{"name":"Regional Science Policy and Practice","volume":"18 2","pages":"Article 100276"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145840859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Interregional trade estimation as a case for economic integration 作为经济一体化案例的区域间贸易估算

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Regional Science Policy and Practice Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100269

Giacomo Arena , Daniele Bregoli , Ricardo Ferreira , Marco Ciro Liscio , Paolo Sospiro

{"title":"Interregional trade estimation as a case for economic integration","authors":"Giacomo Arena , Daniele Bregoli , Ricardo Ferreira , Marco Ciro Liscio , Paolo Sospiro","doi":"10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100269","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100269","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper explores the estimation of interregional trade as a lens through which to assess the broader dynamics of economic integration, with a particular emphasis on the persistent \"border effect\" in the European Union (EU). Although regional integration is intended to foster seamless economic flows through policy convergence and infrastructural alignment, empirical evidence reveals significant barriers to cross-border trade. These frictions (both tangible and intangible) challenge the assumption of a borderless economy within integrated regions. Through a systematic literature review guided by the PRISMA methodology, the study examines the evolution of trade estimation techniques, focusing on the gravity model as the dominant analytical framework. The review highlights key methodological innovations, including hybrid gravity-input-output models, RAS calibration, and spatial econometrics, as well as sectoral and regional applications that expose asymmetries in trade flows. By synthesizing findings from peer-reviewed sources and academic research, the paper reveals the multidimensional nature of border effects and the uneven outcomes of integration policies. The analysis is complemented by references to grey literature, mainly policy documents, allowing to set the societal relevance of the research. It concludes that while gravity models remain central to trade analysis, their future relevance depends on incorporating behavioural, infrastructural, governance and political dimensions. This work contributes to ongoing academic and policy debates by advocating for a more nuanced, interdisciplinary approach to understanding economic integration in an increasingly fragmented yet interconnected world.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":45520,"journal":{"name":"Regional Science Policy and Practice","volume":"18 2","pages":"Article 100269"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146090303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Exploring the bidirectional relationship between participation and position of the European regions in GVCs 探讨欧洲地区在全球价值链中的参与与地位的双向关系

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Regional Science Policy and Practice Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100264

Lucía Bolea , Rosa Duarte , Sofía Jiménez

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Community perception on a temporary plant nursury installation: Urban and regional tourism perspectives 社区对临时苗圃装置的看法：城市和区域旅游的观点

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Regional Science Policy and Practice Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100251

Alexandru Dragan, Remus Creţan, Raluca Maria Răducan, Mădălina Glonţi, Marius Lupșa Matichescu

{"title":"Community perception on a temporary plant nursury installation: Urban and regional tourism perspectives","authors":"Alexandru Dragan, Remus Creţan, Raluca Maria Răducan, Mădălina Glonţi, Marius Lupșa Matichescu","doi":"10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100251","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100251","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Sustainable urban and regional innovation through temporary installations is a more and more visible process in the neoliberal city. Recent literature on urban and regional innovation could launch different solutions aimed at bringing profit to local administration by promoting natural environment in the most visible and representative tourist spaces of the city. Our study advances these debates by critically presenting the role of an innovative sustainable and ecologically friendly practice contributing to a European Capital of Culture (ECoC) and how a five-store plant installation was temporarily placed in the city center with the aim for Timisoara to convey a strong message about urban (bio)diversity as an identifying element of Timișoara as a tourist center and the ecosystem services that it brings to society. This site was the most visited attraction in Timisoara and in Timis county in 2023, but it caused divergent opinions among the local communities. Although meant as impactful beyond the locals, as well for the tourism in terms of revitalizing local urban and regional tourism, our findings suggest that the plant installation engendered important critiques on its integration in urban and regional landscape, heritage co-creation and collective care of Timisoara’s heritage sites. We conclude that the cultural and innovative ecosystem practice of temporarily placing the plant installation in the heritage city area has brought both positive and negative consequences at local urban and regional levels: it was a unique site with increased biodiversity, communities engagement and visibility for the city on European visitors, but it also not suited to the place of the heritage landscape of the city center.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":45520,"journal":{"name":"Regional Science Policy and Practice","volume":"18 1","pages":"Article 100251"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145690839","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Regional innovation policies in favor of doing-using interacting (DUI) innovations in lagging regions: What about the perceptions of local SMEs? 区域创新政策有利于落后地区的使用互动（DUI）创新：当地中小企业的看法如何？

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Regional Science Policy and Practice Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100254

Christoph Friedrich , Rolf Sternberg

{"title":"Regional innovation policies in favor of doing-using interacting (DUI) innovations in lagging regions: What about the perceptions of local SMEs?","authors":"Christoph Friedrich , Rolf Sternberg","doi":"10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100254","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100254","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The ability and willingness to innovate are recognized as being among the most important conditions for improving the performance of economically lagging regions.Regional innovation policies can help such regions to catch up, which is why the EU Commission, the EU member states and many of their subnational regions have created corresponding regional innovation policies, in some cases with a considerable volume of funding. However, after decades of such policies, interregional economic disparities have not been significantly reduced in many countries. The economically and innovatively weaker regions usually lack the necessary funds to develop corresponding regional innovation promotion programs themselves. This paper is dedicated to an aspect of this problem that has not been addressed enough to date: the viewpoint of small- and medium-sized firms in the target regions of such regional innovation policies. We pay particular attention to both innovation modes: the Science-Technology-Innovation (STI) mode and the Doing-Using-Interacting (DUI) mode, applying a recent categorization of DUI indicators when checking for their innovation policy relevance. We also differentiate between lagging regions in a rural context and in an urban one. Based on extensive qualitative data from six structurally weak German regions and 59 enterprises, we draw empirically sound conclusions on the effectiveness of such policies, focusing on seven fields of policy action. In addition, we are developing proposals on how such policies can be modified in future so that they simultaneously satisfy the needs of the target group and increase the innovative performance of lagging regions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":45520,"journal":{"name":"Regional Science Policy and Practice","volume":"18 1","pages":"Article 100254"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145690836","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Endogenous Cohesion Policy 内生性内聚政策

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Regional Science Policy and Practice Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100255

George Petrakos, Alexandra Sotiriou, Stavroula Alexiou

{"title":"Endogenous Cohesion Policy","authors":"George Petrakos, Alexandra Sotiriou, Stavroula Alexiou","doi":"10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100255","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100255","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Cohesion Policy (CP) is the European Union’s main instrument to address regional disparities and promote convergence. Yet, over the past two decades, spatial inequalities within the Union have widened, raising concerns about the effectiveness of CP and its ability to confront the structural deficiencies of lagging regions. This paper examines the allocation of CP funding across EU regions, assessing whether it is endogenously determined, prioritizing and addressing the underlying socio-economic and structural gaps or is shaped by other drivers. Using a panel econometric model with NUTS II regional data covering three programming periods (2000–2006, 2007–2013, 2014–2020), we examine the responsiveness of allocations to six dimensions of regional disparities as well as to institutional and political factors. The results reveal a complex and sometimes contradictory pattern: although CP shows partial responsiveness to regional needs, it remains insufficiently targeted to structural deficiencies such as infrastructure and investment gaps in weaker regions, while the concentration of decision-making power at the top ranks of EC administration, as well as political considerations related to the European Parliament representation, affect the allocation of resources.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":45520,"journal":{"name":"Regional Science Policy and Practice","volume":"18 1","pages":"Article 100255"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145690834","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The role of non-profit organizations in territorial cohesion in cross-border regions 非营利组织在跨界区域领土凝聚力中的作用

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Regional Science Policy and Practice Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100253

Oto Potluka , Lina Schubnell , Eduardo Medeiros , Milan Weller

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