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Spatial Inequalities and Wellbeing
A Multidisciplinary Approach
9781802202625 Edward Elgar Publishing
Spatial Inequalities and Wellbeing represents a timely and seminal contribution to the literature tackling one of the most crucial concerns of modern times: the rise of inequalities and its far-reaching implications for individual wellbeing. Taking a multidisciplinary perspective, the book highlights the different types and sources of inequalities and identifies opportunities for policy action to tackle various inequalities at once.
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Spatial Inequalities and Wellbeing represents a timely contribution to the literature tackling one of the most crucial concerns of modern times: the rise of inequalities and its far-reaching implications for individual wellbeing. Taking a multidisciplinary perspective, the book highlights the different types and sources of inequalities and identifies opportunities for policy action to tackle various inequalities at once.
Featuring expert contributions from eminent scholars, this insightful book posits that policies themselves can produce deep inequalities at the spatial level while trying to reduce them and also explores how inequalities and marginalisation depress individual wellbeing and can become a threat to political and institutional stability. Chapters critically analyse the causes of spatial inequalities, ranging from education and housing to location in the largest cities. The book also highlights the negative consequences of these gaps widening, and emphasises how participatory and bottom-up interventions can contribute to narrowing such disparities at the micro-level.
Academics, researchers and students in urban and regional studies; human geography; economics and finance; politics and public policy; and sociology and social policy will find this to be an informative read. Policymakers within these fields will equally find this to be a beneficial resource.
Featuring expert contributions from eminent scholars, this insightful book posits that policies themselves can produce deep inequalities at the spatial level while trying to reduce them and also explores how inequalities and marginalisation depress individual wellbeing and can become a threat to political and institutional stability. Chapters critically analyse the causes of spatial inequalities, ranging from education and housing to location in the largest cities. The book also highlights the negative consequences of these gaps widening, and emphasises how participatory and bottom-up interventions can contribute to narrowing such disparities at the micro-level.
Academics, researchers and students in urban and regional studies; human geography; economics and finance; politics and public policy; and sociology and social policy will find this to be an informative read. Policymakers within these fields will equally find this to be a beneficial resource.
Critical Acclaim
‘The work is presented through up-to-date and scholarly comparative chapters that are immensely topical and timely. Contemporary European societies are facing the twin trends of growing socio-economic disparities between people and places, and the expansion of a regressive political populism that is undermining attempts to foster greater cohesion. This book contributes to the development and re-assertion of progressive agendas founded on social justice and the propagation of well-being.’
– Mike Raco, University College London, UK
‘Spatial Inequalities and Wellbeing: A Multidisciplinary Approach is a brilliant and original contribution to the analysis of the new spatial dimension of social inequalities in EU countries. Through the innovative lens of a multi-scalar perspective, the book deals with different aspects of the challenges related to spatial inequalities and wellbeing, using different disciplinary approaches ranging from regional economics to urban studies, from economic and urban geography to planning.’
– Gabriele Pasqui, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
– Mike Raco, University College London, UK
‘Spatial Inequalities and Wellbeing: A Multidisciplinary Approach is a brilliant and original contribution to the analysis of the new spatial dimension of social inequalities in EU countries. Through the innovative lens of a multi-scalar perspective, the book deals with different aspects of the challenges related to spatial inequalities and wellbeing, using different disciplinary approaches ranging from regional economics to urban studies, from economic and urban geography to planning.’
– Gabriele Pasqui, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Contributors
Contributors include: Dimitris Ballas, Daniel Behar, Cristina Bernini, Martijn J. Burger, Valentina Vittoria Calabrese, Roberta Capello, Silvia Cerisola, Daniela De Leo, Arjen Edzes, Silvia Emili, Valeria Fedeli, Maria Rosaria Ferrante, Franziska Görmar, Martin Graffenberger, Stefan Haunstein, Marloes Hoogerbrugge, Luise Koeppen, Sierdjan Koster, Thilo Lang, Camilla Lenzi, Philip Morrison, Giovanni Perucca
Contents
Contents:
Introduction: the interplay among inequalities, wellbeing and space 1
Camilla Lenzi and Valeria Fedeli
1 Spatial Inequalities in an Era of Modern Reindustrialization 16
Roberta Capello and Silvia Cerisola
2 Left behind places and local democracy: German small towns
under the conditions of peripheralisation 33
Thilo Lang, Franziska Görmar, Stefan Haunstein and Martin Graffenberger
3 Resolving the Urban Wellbeing Paradox: The Role of
Education and Social Contact 52
Philip S. Morrison
4 Housing and Urban-Rural Differences in Subjective Wellbeing
in the Netherlands 95
Marloes Hoogerbrugge and Martijn J. Burger
5 Urbanization and the Geography of Societal Discontent 116
Camilla Lenzi and Giovanni Perucca
6 Regional disparities in the sensitivity of wellbeing to poverty measures 133
Cristina Bernini, Silvia Emili and Maria Rosaria Ferrante
7 Spatial Inequalities and International Cooperation Projects:
a Bottom-up Wellbeing Model for Inclusion 155
Daniela De Leo and Valentina Vittoria Calabrese
8 Behind Left and Right – Disentangling the Voting Behaviour
of Radical Parties in Europe 173
Luise Koeppen, Dimitris Ballas, Arjen Edzes and Sierdjan Koster
9 Spatial justice: the contemporary uncertainties of the French model 212
Valeria Fedeli
Introduction: the interplay among inequalities, wellbeing and space 1
Camilla Lenzi and Valeria Fedeli
1 Spatial Inequalities in an Era of Modern Reindustrialization 16
Roberta Capello and Silvia Cerisola
2 Left behind places and local democracy: German small towns
under the conditions of peripheralisation 33
Thilo Lang, Franziska Görmar, Stefan Haunstein and Martin Graffenberger
3 Resolving the Urban Wellbeing Paradox: The Role of
Education and Social Contact 52
Philip S. Morrison
4 Housing and Urban-Rural Differences in Subjective Wellbeing
in the Netherlands 95
Marloes Hoogerbrugge and Martijn J. Burger
5 Urbanization and the Geography of Societal Discontent 116
Camilla Lenzi and Giovanni Perucca
6 Regional disparities in the sensitivity of wellbeing to poverty measures 133
Cristina Bernini, Silvia Emili and Maria Rosaria Ferrante
7 Spatial Inequalities and International Cooperation Projects:
a Bottom-up Wellbeing Model for Inclusion 155
Daniela De Leo and Valentina Vittoria Calabrese
8 Behind Left and Right – Disentangling the Voting Behaviour
of Radical Parties in Europe 173
Luise Koeppen, Dimitris Ballas, Arjen Edzes and Sierdjan Koster
9 Spatial justice: the contemporary uncertainties of the French model 212
Valeria Fedeli
