Environmental integration and policy implementation: competing governance modes in waste management decision making 1 – 18
Måns Nilsson, Mats Eklund, Sara Tyskeng
Enterprise and public policy: a review of Labour government intervention in the United Kingdom 19 – 41
Robert Huggins, Nicholas Williams
Participation in EU biodiversity governance: how far beyond rhetoric? 42 – 58
Felix Rauschmayer, Sybille van den Hove, Thomas Koetz
Multilevel governance, networking cities, and the geography of climate-change mitigation: two Swedish examples 59 – 74
Eva Gustavsson, Ingemar Elander, Mats Lundmark
Partnership and role perception, three case studies on the meaning of being a representative in rural partnerships 75 – 89
Petra Derkzen, Bettina Bock
Converging agendas? Energy and climate change policies in the UK 90 – 109
Heather Lovell, Harriet Bulkeley, Susan Owens
Science and uncertainty in South Africa’s elephant culling debate 110 – 123
Paul Dickson, William M Adams
Evaluating project deadweight measures: evidence from Finnish business subsidies 124 – 140
Anu Tokila, Mika Haapanen
Institutions and the provision of local services in Mexico 141 – 158
Esteban Silva-Ochoa
The effect of occupational safety legislation in preventing accidents at work: traditional versus advanced manufacturing industries 159 – 174
Pablo Arocena, Imanol Núñez
Between market and state: dilemmas of environmental governance in China’s sulphur dioxide emission trading system 175 – 188
Julia Tao, Daphne Ngar-yin Mah
Reviews 189 – 190
Gripaios on Storey, Greene, Mole: Three decades of enterprise culture? Entrepreneurship, economic regeneration and public policy
Erratum
There is an error in the first paragraph of the review of Tyner's The Killing of Cambodia: Geography, Genocide and the Unmasking of Space in volume 26, issue 6, pages 1228 – 1229. The second sentence should read "This book signals the arrival of Cambodia into mainstream theoretical debates within geography. In it Tyner sets out to understand 'the geographic imaginations constructed by state actors and how, in turn, these are used to justify "genocidal" practices' (page 3)." The editors and publishers apologise for this error.
Theme issue: SME policy as a focus for research
Including papers from the ISBE conference
Guest editor: Colin Mason
Guest editorial
Entrepreneurship policies and new business performance and growth: an empirical analysis based on manufacturing industries 195 – 215
José A Belso Martínez
Assessing the impact of policy interventions: the influence of evaluation methodology 216 – 229
Francis J Greene
Discouraged advisees? The influence of gender, ethnicity, and education in the use of advice and finance by UK SMEs 230 – 245
Jonathan M Scott, David Irwin
Access to finance for high-tech SMEs: regional differences in China 246 – 262
Li Xiao, Bob Ritchie
Perceptions and experience of employment regulation in UK small firms 263 – 278
Sara Carter, Colin Mason, Stephen Tagg
A review of interventions to encourage SMEs to make environmental improvements 279 – 301
Craig M Parker, Janice Redmond, Mike Simpson
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Meeting housing-space demand through in situ housing adjustments in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area, Ghana 302 – 318
Louis Awanyo
Knowledge ecologies and ecosystems? An empirically grounded reflection on recent developments in innovation systems theory 319 – 339
Theo Papaioannou, David Wield, Joanna Chataway
The politics of sustainable development in UK government: what role for integrated policy appraisal? 340 – 354
Duncan Russel, John Turnpenny
Factors influencing e-disclosure in local public administrations 355 – 378
Carlos Serrano-Cinca, Mar Rueda-Tomás, Pilar Portillo-Tarragona
Reviews 379 – 380
McDonagh on Knowles, Shaw, Doherty (Eds): Transport geographies: mobilities, flows and spaces
Multilevel governance at work: evidence from Structural Funds management in Lombardia, Italy 381 – 398
Marc Percoco, Michele Giove
Legislative support for urban land-use control in China 399 – 412
Sumei Zhang, Kenneth Pearlman
The institutionalization of just decision making: analyzing planning practice in Portugal 413 – 432
Ricardo Cardoso, Isabel Breda-Vázquez
Urban implications of cultural policy networks: the case of the Mount Vernon Cultural District in Baltimore 433 – 450
Davide Ponzini
Paths of local development: two technological districts face-to-face 451 – 467
Laura Azzolina, Deborah De Luca
The look of the lawn: pesticide policy preference and health-risk perception in context 468 – 490
Rachel Hirsch, Jamie Baxter
The role of individuals in policy change: the case of UK low-energy housing 491 – 511
Heather Lovell
Discourse, power, and energy conflicts: understanding Welsh renewable energy planning policy 512 – 526
Ruth Stevenson
Tackling social exclusion in Greece: citizenship and participatory governance 527 – 545
Ioannis Chorianopoulos
Divergence or convergence? Devolution and transport policy in the United Kingdom 546 – 567
Jon Shaw, Danny MacKinnon, Iain Docherty
Reviews 568 – 570
Perkins on Crabbé, Leroy: The handbook of environmental policy evaluation
Aalbers on Ronald: The ideology of home ownership: homeowner societies and the role of housing
Theme issue: Regional competitiveness in the knowledge-based economy: comparative policy perspectives
Guest editors: Yong-Sook Lee, Nicholas A Phelps
Guest editorial
From branch plant economies to knowledge economies? Manufacturing industry, government policy, and economic development in Britain’s old industrial regions 574 – 592
Nicholas A Phelps
A new era of federal involvement in regional economic development? The case of the WIRED initiative 593 – 611
Henry Renski
Endogenous versus exogenous development: a comparative study of biotechnology industry cluster policies in South Korea and Singapore 612 – 631
Yong-Sook Lee, Ying-Chian Tee, Dong-wan Kim
Industry building as contested market building: knowledge, politics, and the rise of Beijing in China’s virtual economy 632 – 646
Jun Zhang
Policy-driven university – industry linkages and regional innovation networks in Korea 647 – 664
Dong-Won Sohn, Hyungjoo Kim, Jeong Hyop Lee
What does it take to become a biotech hot spot? 665 – 683
Jun Koo, Jonghoon Bae, Dohyeong Kim
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Considerations of the obstacles and opportunities to formalizing cross-national policy transfer to the United States: a case study of the transfer of urban environmental and planning policies from Germany 684 – 697
David P Dolowitz, Dale Medearis
The institutions of ‘strong’ local political leadership in Spain 698 – 712
David Sweeting
Regional specialisation and industrial concentration in Romania’s transition period from an election cycle perspective 713 – 731
Tudorel Andrei, Daniela L Constantin, Constantin Mitrut
Uniquely Scottish? Placing Scottish devolution in theoretical perspective 732 – 746
Sylvia A R Tijmstra
Does cross-border cooperation empower European regions? The case of INTERREG III-A France – Spain 747 – 760
Jean-Baptiste Harguindéguy, Zoé Bray
Editorials
Political interference in the Philippine civil service 766 – 782
Rupert Hodder
The political ecology of a Ramsar site conservation failure: the case of Burdur Lake, Turkey 783 – 800
Fikret Adaman, Serra Hakyemez, Begüm Özkaynak
Social production of desirable space: an exploration of the practice and role of property agents in the UK commercial property market 801 – 814
Pernille Schiellerup, Julie Gwilliam
Patterns of innovation in EU-25 regions: a typology and policy recommendations 815 – 840
Mikel Navarro, Juan Jose Gibaja, Beñat Bilbao-Osorio, Ricardo Aguado
Identifying obstacles to community climate protection planning 841 – 857
Damian Pitt, John Randolph
Fostering private – public partnerships in the transition economies: HELCOM as a system of implementation review 858 – 875
Nathaniel Trumbull
Cross-border organisations as an adaptive water management response to climate change: the case of the Guadiana river basin 876 – 893
Francesc Cots, J David Tàbara, Darryn McEvoy, Saskia Werners, Elisabet Roca
Eco-efficiency and organizational practices: an exploratory study of manufacturing firms 894 – 921
Jean-François Henri, Marc Journeault
Cross-border metropolitan integration in Europe: the case of Luxembourg, Basel, and Geneva 922 – 939
Christophe Sohn, Bernard Reitel, Olivier Walther
Reviews 940 – 949
Corbridge on Harvey: The limits to capital
Barr on Davies: The geographies of garbage governance: interventions, interactions and outcomes
Griffin on Joas, Jahn, Kern (Eds): Governing a common sea: environmental policies in the Baltic Sea region
Bailey on Jordan, Lenschow (Eds): Innovation in environmental policy? Integrating the environment for sustainability
Portman on Dietz, Stern (Eds): Public participation in environmental assessment and decision making
Betsill on Giddens: The politics of climate change
Pugh on Higate, Henry: Insecure spaces: peacekeeping, power and performance in Haiti, Kosovo and Liberia
Theme issue: New perspectives on employability and labour market policy
Guest editors: Colin Lindsay, Amparo Serrano Pascual
Guest editorial
A gendered theory of employment, unemployment, and sickness 958 – 974
Christina Beatty, Steve Fothergill, Donald Houston, Ryan Powell, Paul Sissons
Rewarding responsibility? Long-term unemployed men and the welfare-to-work agenda 975 – 990
Kathryn Ray, Lesley Hoggart, Rebecca Taylor, Sandra Vegeris, Verity Campbell-Barr
Evidence on employer attitudes and EQUAL opportunities for the disadvantaged in a flexible and open economy 991 – 1007
Mike Danson, Karen Gilmore
The role of social networks and geographical location in labour market participation in the UK coalfields 1008 – 1021
Tony Gore, Emma Hollywood
Tackling concentrated worklessness: integrating governance and policy across and within spatial scales 1022 – 1039
David North, Stephen Syrett, David Etherington
Delivering employability in a vanguard ‘active’ welfare state: the case of Greater Copenhagen in Denmark 1040 – 1054
Colin Lindsay, Mikkel Mailand
The local integration of employment services: assessing network effectiveness of local job centres in Flanders 1055 – 1071
Ludo Struyven, Line Van Hemel
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A multidimensional evaluation of the effectiveness of business incubators: an application of the PROMETHEE outranking method 1072 – 1087
Michael Schwartz, Maximilian Göthner
The economic and innovation contribution of universities: a regional perspective 1088 – 1106
Robert Huggins, Andrew Johnston
Sociospatial geographies of civil war in Sierra Leone and the new global diamond order: is the Kimberley process the panacea? 1107 – 1130
Leo C Zulu, Sigismond A Wilson
Reviews 1131 – 1134
Coenen on Crouch, Voelzkow: Innovation in local economies: Germany in comparative context
Gupta on Shiva: Soil, not oil: climate change, peak oil and food insecurity
Melcalfe on Grafton (Ed.): Economics of water resources
