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Geography of discontent and beyond: Extreme voting, protestations, riots and violence, and their spatial content 不满及其以外的地理：极端投票、抗议、骚乱和暴力及其空间内容

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Regional Science Policy and Practice Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100272

André Torre , Sébastien Bourdin

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Leaving no one behind: Understanding the distribution of poverty and inequality in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh 不让任何人掉队：了解孟加拉国吉大港山区的贫困和不平等分布

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Regional Science Policy and Practice Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100259

Golam Rasul , Apsara Karki Nepal

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Productivity and left-behindness of EU metropolitan regions: Trends, spatial analysis and convergence 欧盟大都市区的生产力与落后：趋势、空间分析与趋同

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Regional Science Policy and Practice Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100263

Theodore Tsekeris

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Supplemental reindustrialisation in hungary: Transcending the development trap 匈牙利的补充再工业化：超越发展陷阱

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Regional Science Policy and Practice Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100260

Gabor Lux

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Spatial spillover effects on the support for populist radical right parties in Slovakia 斯洛伐克民粹主义极右翼政党支持的空间溢出效应

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Regional Science Policy and Practice Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100258

Štefan Rehák, Dana Kuběnková

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Mapping the spatial patterns of COVID-19 case fatality ratio in India 绘制印度COVID-19病死率的空间格局

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Regional Science Policy and Practice Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100267

Ananya Kundu , Sumit Ram , Arabindo Tanti , Sumana Bandyopadhyay

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The geography of mining and its environmental impact in Europe 欧洲采矿地理及其对环境的影响

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Regional Science Policy and Practice Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100256

Andrea Bastianin , Chiara F. Del Bo , Luqman Shamsudin

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Regional Science Policy and Practice Pub Date : 2025-12-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100274

Amitrajeet A. Batabyal

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Regional Science Policy and Practice Pub Date : 2025-12-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100275

Muzamil Farooq

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Cities in the loop: A social science perspective on the role of cities in food system circularity 循环中的城市：从社会科学的角度看城市在粮食系统循环中的作用

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Regional Science Policy and Practice Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100238

Daniel Polman , Liesbeth de Schutter , Stephanie Begemann , Jose D. Lopez-Rivas , Eveline van Leeuwen , Joana Wensing

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