Reconstructing Regional Identity to Consolidate Regional Autonomy

Regional Identity Preservation Using the Internet

Personal identity verification for regional emergency workers

South Central Texas emergency planners have organised a regional Personal Identity Verification (PIV) project for hospital and emergency workers. This paper describes the development and administrative challenges in designing and implementing an electronic PIV system across multiple organisations in a 22-county region.

ECO and Regional Trade

Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO), based on regional and multicultural cooperation, has focused on the improvement of living standards, collective as well as individual prosperity of people and economic development of member’s states. Since February 1992 ECO has been expanded to ten as the result of collapse of the Soviet Union. Of course, gas and oil are very important factors in this re...

Regional Identity in Rural Development: Three Case Studies of Regional Branding

Within the globalizing world, regions and their identities are subjected to great pressure. At present, places are engaged in a process of “territorial competition” in an integrated world economy. The identity of the region can be used as a starting point to brand a region and differentiate it from others. In the regional branding process, the region as a whole becomes a product or brand and of...

Regional Clusters, Regional Competencies and Regional Competition

Paper delivered at the International Conference on " Cluster management in structural policy – International experiences and consequences for Northrhine-Westfalia " , Duisburg, december 5 th