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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Sanne Velthuis, Professor Rachel FranklinORCiD, Professor Danny MacKinnonORCiD, Professor Andy Pike
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).
© 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Recent debates about ‘left behind’ places have opened up new opportunities to understand the interconnected challenges faced by many regions in the Global North. At the same time, the application of this label to a wide variety of places with different characteristics has been accused of obscuring as much as it reveals. In this paper, we shed light on the variegated nature of ‘left behind’ regions through a cluster analysis of NUTS-3 regions in the EU15. We identify six types of areas, of which three are characterised as ‘left behind’ based on their performance on a range of economic, demographic and social variables. There are important differences between these three types of regions, strengthening the argument for policy responses adapted to local circumstances.
Author(s): Velthuis S, Royer J, Le Petit-Guerin M, Cauchi-Duval N, Franklin R, Leibert T, MacKinnon D, Pike A
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Regional Studies
Year: 2024
Pages: Epub ahead of print
Online publication date: 05/12/2024
Acceptance date: 11/10/2024
Date deposited: 17/12/2024
ISSN (print): 0034-3404
ISSN (electronic): 1360-0591
Publisher: Routledge
URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2024.2417704
DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2024.2417704
Data Access Statement: Most of the data used in this study are available in the publicly available ARDECO database, https://knowledge4policy.ec.europa.eu/territorial/ardeco-database_en. The data used were downloaded on 21 July 2021 when the UK was still included in the database. The indicator values calculated by the authors based on the raw data are available in Appendix B in the supplemental data online.
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