Responses to Geographical Marginality and Marginalization: From Social Innovation to Regional Develo

Etienne Nel and Stanko Pelc

Introduction

PART 1: SOCIAL INNOVATION AS A TOOL FOR DEMARGINALIZATION

Pierre-Antoine Landel and Sabine Girard: Questioning the Transformative Capacity of Social Innovation: The Example of Agroecology Transition in the Drôme Valley (FR)

Juan-Luis Klein: Social Innovation, Knowledge and Local Revitalization: a case of knowledge co-construction in a local rural community

Mélanie Doyon, Juan-Luis Klein , Pierre-André Tremblay and Camille Arsenault-Hétu: Local Community and Social Enterprise: a food security oriented initiative in Saint-Camille

PART 2: REGIONS, REGIONAL POTENTIALS, REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND GEOGRAPHICAL MARGINALITY

Walter Leimgruber: Rich country - 'poor' regions: fighting regional disparities in Switzerland

Tomasz Komornicki and Konrad Czapiewski: Economic Lagging and Regional Development - some narrative stories from Podkarpackie, Poland

Jerzy Banski: The evaluation of local resources from the point of view of their role as factors underpinning development in the marginal regions of eastern Poland      16

Walter Leimgruber: Nature Parks: valorising regional potential. The example of the Gruye re Pays-d'Enhaut regional nature park

Etienne Nel & Teresa Stevenson: Responding to Marginalization in Australia through regional and local action, with a specific focus on Western Australia

PART 3: POLICIES, ACTIONS AND OTHER RESPONSES TO MARGINALITY    

Toivo Muilu: Policies of sparsely populated rural areas in Finland

Krystian Heffner, Agniesza Latocha: Desolated villages as example of spatial, economic and social marginalization in the Polish-Czech borderland

Hugo Capella: Ibiza: A disrupting merge

Raularian Rusu, Titus Man and Sandu Ciprian Moldovan: The impact of motorway building on the accessibility to marginal areas in the West Region of Romania.