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Journal of Nordregio no 1, 2010

Värmland
High North
Baltic Sea Region
Global urbanisation

Diversified content; this year's first issue of the Journal of Nordregio has just been published. The content stretches from tendencies in global urban developments to emigration from Iceland. Also contested views on the strategies for the Baltic Sea Region are discussed as well gas slowdown in the High North.

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Contents

Editorial
Global urban growth and decline
The economic attractiveness of slums
- Warning against divided cities
Immigrant Women's Entrepreneurship
Who pays for rainy days?
Trends in Nordic municipal amalgamations
Regional innovation in Värmland
Results from the innovation platforms
From paper to packaging
Contested views of the Baltic Sea Region
Iceland lost almost 5000 people in 2009
China wants an Arctic role
Gas slowdown in the High North
Climate change in the Murmansk region