This paper attempts to place regional development within the context of modern resource base theory. Firms do not locate or relocate in order to make use of ubiquities, but to utilise appropriate differences in regional capabilities, and the paper discusses the nature of such capabilities in enhancing or abating the competitiveness of firms, emphasising the crucial role of collective learning a...

At an analytical level, the international dimensions of environmental policies may be divided into three categories, viz. national (or competitiveness), psychological (non-physical) and transboundary pollution problems (global externalities). It is argued that only the third problem (viz. degradation of regional or global commons) ought appropriately to be seen as being truly international (or ...