IGU Commission “Geography and Public Administration”
Parallel Session - IGU Regional Conference 1998
Lisbon - Portugal
31 August – 2 September 1998
THE RESTRUCTURING AND REFORM OF LOCAL AND REGIONAL SERVICES
Chair: Max Barlow, Concordia University, Canada
Local organization: Carlos Nunes Silva, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Conference report: in Finisterra, XXXIII, 66, 1998: 137-140.
Eva Perger – Role of local government in local and regional economic development in Hungary.
Kristina Keresztély – Decentralization and new strategies of the state in the development of Budapest.
Margarida Queirós – New directions for an environmental ethics in land use and decision-making.
Martin Volk – Integrated landscape development strategies for the Dessau region, eastern Germany: concepts and cooperation with governmental authorities.
Adam Hood – The Gabcikovo Hydro scheme on the Danube.
Max Barlow, Martin Hampl and Petr Dostal – Changing regional administration in the Czech Republic.
Teresa Czyz – The territorial organization reform and the regional structure of Poland.
Carlos Nunes Silva and Margarida Pereira – Metropolitan Government in Portugal
Frank Hansen and Carlos Nunes Silva – Transformations and continuity in welfare states in Europe after World War II.
Jiri Blazek – Changing system of local government finances in the Czech Republic and possible future implications of EU structural funds on Czech local government.
Jan Groenendijk – Dutch housing policy decentralized: a step towards local autonomy?
Nirmala Rao and Ken Young – The dynamics of decentralization: local experiments in Britain.