Abstracts

THEME 1 -

Globalisation and localisation: integration of BSR into the global and EU networks, new challenges for regional development

Caroline Rodenburg, Peter Nijkamp - "Mainports and gateways in Europe: a comparative contrast analysis for the Nordic area"
Riccardo Cappellin - "The transformation of local production systems: international networking and territorial competitiveness"
Bo Forström, Ulf Forsman - "Urban networking in the Baltic Sea Area – the role of media objects in a learning process"
Aleksandras V. Rutkauskas - "Globalization and localication - the main contrasting features of regional financial system development"
Karin Peschel - "The Baltic Sea region - an economically highly integrated area in future"
Ülo Ennuste - "An incentive compatible mechanism with budget balance of interregional cooperation decisions"
Lars Olof Persson - "Emerging mobility patterns in the Baltic capital triangle (BCT)"
David Rylander - "Globalism and regionalism in the Baltic Sea region. The role of internet services in the interplay"
Siamak Baradaran, Lars Lundqvist - "Analysing infrastructure and mobility in the Baltic Sea region"
Oleg Reut - "The Baltic Sub-regionalisation: The Geo-politics and Security Agenda"
Jurgis Vanagas - "Concept of urbanized corridors and networking of Baltic Sea region"
Malgorzata Pacuk, Tadeusz Palmowski - "Internatinal co-operation of regions - the case of Poland"
Margarita Ratanova - The necessity of revival of economic connections between Russia and Baltic countries
Elena Lapsina - "The perspective of the new regional investment policy in Russia and Eastern Europe: Business-Ecological Parks (BEP)"
Elena Lapsina, Khachik Ambarian, Roman Melnikov - "Investment decisions for the optimization portfolio`s risks in Russian financial market"
Mihkel Veiderma - "Development of the Baltic Sea region gas market"
Tiiu Paas, Horst Todt, Urmas Varblane - "Alternative scenarios for the development of trade flows in Baltic Sea region"

THEME 2 -

Rethinking the national and EU regional policies for the Baltic Sea Region

Jan Maarten de Vet - "EU enlargement and preaccession: reflections concerning Central and Eastern Europe"
Jacek Zaucha - "INTERREG II C in the Baltic Sea region"
Christopher J. Smith - "Globalization, regionalization and changing state forms: Cox`s thesis and the Baltic states"
Bill Hebenton, Jon Spencer - "Policing and crime in the "Finnish near-by region": issues of European integration and exclusion"
Göran Hallin - "The concept of partnership in regional policy: the integration of structural funds in nordic regional policy"
Andreas P. Cornett, Soren Peter Iversen - "The Baltic states in an European and Baltic perspective: trade and transition in the Baltic Rim"
Daiva Brukstaitiene - "Targeted development of business evaluation system for European integration"
Robert Hall - "Sustainable European integration and individual behaviour: case study of four locations in the mid-Baltic"
Zbignew Rykiel - "The perceived spatial and modernization consequences of Poland’s access to the EU"
Ott Kurs - "Estonia as a part of the Baltic Sea Region (BSR)"
Jussi S. Jauhiainen, Priidu Ristkok - "Development of regional policy in Estonia"
Jesper Manniche - "State-of-the-art of Baltic social science research in Scandinavian countries and Germany"

THEME 3 -

Long term planning in the context of growing environmental concern, social and cultural convergence and fragmentation

Anssi Paasi - "The role of identities and boundaries in the contemporary world"
Valerii Tonkopii - "The coastal zone of St. Petersburg (Russia) is the most loaded part of the Baltic Sea"
Kaisa Lähteenmäki-Smith - "Adaptation or empowerment: scenarios for the subnational regional level of the Baltic Sea region in the European Union"
Jolita Ramanauskiene - "Growing environmental concerns in Lithuania"
Katrina Schwartz - "Globalization, identity, and the meanings of land: the battle over "sustainable" forestry in post-Soviet Latvia"
Üllas Ehrlich, Kalju Habicht - "A non-market value component of biodiversity in the structure of life quality and Estonia`s integration into the European Union"
Mika Mannermaa - "KISS society and regional tendencies"
Christian Frederiksen, Christian Hansen - "Two nordic border regions"
Dalia Streimikiene - "Environmental issues of energy sector development in Lithuania. Harmonisation with EC environmental policy requirements"
Aleksandras V. Rutkauskas - "Evaluation of business project impact on regional economical-ecological sustainability"
Riitta Kosonen - "Regulation and post-socialist local transformation"
Heikki Eskelinen, Merja Kokkonen - "Getting on terms with the European regime: programmes of transborder cooperation on the Finnish-Russian border"
Tatjana Maximova - "Borders and identities: Risk to loose yourselves"
Remigijus Ciegis - "Alternative economics and the concept of sustainable development"
Olof Stjernstrom, Mats Nilsson - "Paper recycling in Estonia and the Baltic region"

THEME 4 -

Post-industrial and post-socialist restructuring: new spatial and economic patterns

Philip Cooke - "Regional innovation systems"
Juan Cuadrado Roura - "Regional productivity patterns in Europe. From convergence to heterogeinity"
Börje Johansson - "Regional differentials and market potential in central and peripehral munciplaities"
Sven Illeris - "Outsourcing of clothing industry from Danish to East Baltic firms: Consequensces in Denmark and East Baltic countries"
Stuart Thorne - "Small and Medium Sized Food Manufacturers and Producers in Estonia"
Modrite Luse - "Current differences in development of territories in Latvia"
Soren Adamsen, Lars Fuglsang, John Storm Pedersen - "International support and social division of labour in the Baltic Sea region: the local and regional level"
Jan Henrik Nilsson - "The debate on post-socialist transformation in the perspective of Baltic integration"
David Smallbone, Urve Venesaar - "Internationalisation processes and SME development in the Baltic states: some recent evidence and key policy issues"
Gerd Schienstock, Mika Kautonen, Petri Roponen - "Cooperation and innovation as factors of regional competitiveness. A comparative study of eight European regions"
Maija Rozite - "Tourism in Riga and development of urban tourism"
Elena Lapsina, Alla Alexeyeva, Eugene Sayapov - "Developing new technological capabilities for the banking investment services in the European marketplace"
Elena Lapsina, Roman Melnikov, Ekaterina Melnikova - "Evaluation and rating risks for the banking contractors"
Matthew Zook - "The geography of the internet in the Baltic Sea region"
Mait Rei - ""Shrinking" urban aglomerations – the rise of media and informational industries and their impact producing new territorial and spatial scales and images"
Nazmun Nahar, Najmul Huda, Jaak Tepandi - "Globalisation of enterprises through electronic promotion"
Raigo Ernits - "Production systems in Estonian mono-functional settlements: the institutional approach"

THEME 5 -

Demography, employment and social issues in BSR, lessons to be learned by public sector

David Smallbone - "SME, employment generation and regional development"

Örjan Sjöberg - "Coming to grips with transition: why we should not put unlimited trust in statistics"

Jörg Pohlan - "Spatial structures and migration processes in the districts of Latvia"

Henryk Cwiklinski - "New institutionalarragements for regional development in Poland: their impact on local economies and interregional cooperation"

Andris Bauls - "Spatial mobility of the population in Latvia 1991-1998"

Zaiga Krisjane - "The quality of life, environment and human health assessment in Latvia"

Sergei Kuldin - "Sociological, political and economic problems in the system of values among the population in the Opochka and Pustoshka districts of the Pskov region"

Raul Eamets - "Comparative employment structures and unemployment in Eastern Europe"

Lars Olof Persson - "Labour mobility and metropolitan dynamics"

Imdad Hussain, Niklas Nordman, Lars Westin - "Economies of scale, improvement in transport infrastructure, benefits to traffic and the total welfare gains due to the improvement"

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