Papers

THEME 1 -

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

Peter Nijkamp, Caroline Rodenburg - "Mainports and gateways in Europe: a comparative contrast analysis for the Nopdic Area"
Riccardo Cappellin - "The transformation of local production systems in Italy: international networking and territorial competitiveness"
Ulf Forsman, Bo Forsström - "Urban Networking in the Baltic Sea Region - the Role of Media Objects in a Learning Process"
David Rylander - "Globalism and regionalism in the Baltic Sea region - the role of internet services in the interplay"
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"
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"
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"
Anna Kisiel-Lowczyc - "Investment decisions for the optimization portfolio`s risks in Russian financial market"
Urmas Kase - "Pärnu County: realities and ambitions - through the view of a county planning"

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"
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"
Jacek Zaucha - "INTERREG II C in the Baltic Sea region"
Daiva Brukstaitiene - "Targeted development of business evaluation system for European integration"
Zbignew Rykiel - "The perceived spatial and modernization consequences of Poland’s access to the EU"
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"
Kaisa Lähteenmäki-Smith - "Adaptation or empowerment: scenarios for the subnational regional level of the Baltic Sea region in the European Union"
Heikki Eskelinen, Merja Kokkonen - "Getting into Line with the European Regime - Programmes of Transborder Cooperation on the Finnish-Russian Border"
Mats Nilsson, Olof Stjernström - "Environmental concern and material recycling - recycling of paper in Estonia and Sweden "
Jolita Ramanauskiene - "Growing environmental concerns in Lithuania"
Jüri Lass - "County planning as engine for local development"
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"
Christian Frederiksen, Christian Hansen - "Two nordic border regions"
Tatjana Maximova - "Borders and identities: Risk to loose yourselves"
Remigijus Ciegis - "Alternative economics and the concept of sustainable development"
Krista Loogma - "Options for the future relating to education in Estonia"

THEME 4 -

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

Juan Cuadrado Roura - "Regional productivity patterns in Europe. From convergence to heterogeinity"
Philip Cooke - "The role of innovations in regional competitiveness"
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"
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"
Jan Henrik Nilsson - "The debate on post-socialist transformation in the perspective of Baltic integration"
Maija Rozite - "Tourism in Riga and development of urban tourism"
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"

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"

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"

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

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

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