List of topics for discussion sessions

Institutions and Territorial Development Policies

November 2, 2021
1) Do Institutions Matter for Regional Development? Andrés Rodríguez-Pose in Regional Studies
(2013), 47:7, 1034-1047
2) What drives employment growth and social inclusion in the regions of the European Union? Regional
Studies, 51:12

Social issues
November 3, 2021
3) Regional Social Capital: Why it Matters, Edward J. Malecki in Regional Studies, 46:8, 2012, 1023-
1039.
4) Socially Inclusive Development: The Foundations for Decent Societies in East and Southern
Africa. Pamela Abbott, Claire Wallace & Roger Sapsford in Applied Research Quality Life (2017)
12:813–839.

Cities and networks

November 8, 2021
5) Inter-municipal cooperation: policy transfer in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Regional Studies,
54:7
6) Creative Cities, Creative Spaces and Urban Policy, Graeme Evans in Urban Studies (2009), 46
(5-6).

Multilevel interactions and transformations

November 9, 2021
7) Transformative capacity and local action for urban sustainability. Vanesa Castan Broto ,
Gregory Trencher, Ewa Iwaszuk, Linda Westman, Ambio 2019, 48:449–462
8) Multilevel policy governance and territorial adaptability: evidence from Japanese SME innovation
programmes, Hiroyuki Okamuro, Junichi Nishimura & Fumi Kitagawa (2019), Regional Studies, 53:6,
803-814.

Territorial governance: social and economic issues

November 15, 2021
9) The quality of territorial governance: an assessment of institutional arrangements. The case
of the Serrano cheese production in the Campos de Cima da Serra, Southern Brazil, Journal of
the Geographical Society of Berlin, Vol. 151, No. 1.
10) Territorial governance and proximity dynamics. The case of two public policy arrangements
in the Brazilian Amazon, Papers in Regional Science, Volume 97 Number 4 November 2018.