Code
01N00114
Duration
01 January 2014 → 31 January 2019
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Social sciences
- Economic development, innovation, technological change and growth
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Engineering and technology
- Urban and regional design, development and planning
Keywords
Eurodelta
evolutionaire economic geography
adaptive institutionalization
Actor-relational planning
co-evolution
Project description
An economic, political and spatial analysis towards a renewed interaction between the current city-port developments, based on the Evolutionary Economic Geography (EEC), and the actor-relational planning approach. Investigation into the 'local buzz' in 'global maritime pipelines' in the Delta of the Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt in general, and Ghent, in relation to the Flemish and Zeeland seaports in particular.