The dictionary definition of a region is an area, space or place of more or less definite extent or character. The term regionalism which it is derived from is the practice of regional systems or methods.doi:10.1007/978-3-642-49276-1_17J. M. Forsythe...
In contrast to the different versions of mainstream regional integration theory, we argue that the analysis should avoid fixed and one-dimensional definition of regions as well as a 'narrow' and simplified focus on instrumental state strategies, regional organizations, security alliances and trading ...
Challenges of globalization; Definition of world order; Legal types that require intervention in international law.HettneBjornEBSCO_AspEuropean Journal of Development ResearchHettne Bjorn.Globalisation, Regionalisation and Security: The Asian Experience.European Journal. 2002...
Paradoxically although the principal promoters of the initiative are the member states of CARICOM, the ACS is a response to a wider vision2 of the region as the Caribbean Basin or Greater Caribbean, with strong resonances of the Third World definition in fashion in the 1970s, since its member...
(2015): An alternative definition and use for the constraint function for rule-based methods of functional regionalisation Environment and Planning A.47: 1175-1191.Halas, M., Klapka, P., Bednař, M., & Tonev, P. (2015). An alterna- tive definition and use for the constraint function ...
The approach is exemplified by using a grid search and a genetic algorithm to configure the official methods employed in the UK and Sweden for the definition of their respective official concepts of local labour markets.doi:10.1111/pirs.12199José Manuel Casado Díaz...
Improvement of WASMOD-M and other global water-balance models should be simplified by a common definition of basin boundaries and areas, as well as runoff. Further, modelling progress will depend on improved global datasets of precipitation and runoff regulation.doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2007.04.002...
Ebbin [23] noted that using a narrower functional, social and spatial jurisdictional definition of groups can prevent opportunities for formation of cross-cutting alliances or coalitions, polarise participations and make negotiations strategically competitive rather than consensual. In many cases, participat...