The Striking Similarities between Northern Norway and Northern Sweden
Contrary to the view held by many actors, this paper, by using a quantitative and longitudinal analysis in a comparative perspective, show that demographic development in Northern Norway and Northern Sweden is much more similar than many think. Over the last 60 years, there has been a small negative...
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fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:oai:doaj.org/article:8c7b0946f9fa4e0e8d174a68948d75ec 2023-05-15T14:22:38+02:00 The Striking Similarities between Northern Norway and Northern Sweden Jonas Stein 2019-03-01 https://doi.org/10.23865/arctic.v10.1247 https://doaj.org/article/8c7b0946f9fa4e0e8d174a68948d75ec en no eng nor Cappelen Damm Akademisk NOASP 2387-4562 doi:10.23865/arctic.v10.1247 https://doaj.org/article/8c7b0946f9fa4e0e8d174a68948d75ec undefined Arctic Review on Law and Politics, Vol 10, Iss 0, Pp 79-102 (2019) regional policy Arctic Northern Norway university municipalities scipo demo Journal Article https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_6501/ 2019 fttriple https://doi.org/10.23865/arctic.v10.1247 2023-01-22T19:37:37Z Contrary to the view held by many actors, this paper, by using a quantitative and longitudinal analysis in a comparative perspective, show that demographic development in Northern Norway and Northern Sweden is much more similar than many think. Over the last 60 years, there has been a small negative trend in the relative percentage of the national population that lives in the two regions, with “knowledge cities”, and especially the two university cities Tromsø and Umeå, as the exception. Despite Broxian social theories of regional development in Northern Norway and the implementation of a generous set of regional policies, there seems to be no cause to claim that Northern Norway has followed a unique path of development compared to Northern Sweden, neither in general nor in smaller and more rural communities. Responsible Editor: Øyvind Ravna, UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic review on law and politics Northern Norway Northern Sweden Tromsø Arctic University of Norway UiT The Arctic University of Norway Unknown Arctic Norway Tromsø Arctic Review on Law and Politics 10 0 79 |
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Contrary to the view held by many actors, this paper, by using a quantitative and longitudinal analysis in a comparative perspective, show that demographic development in Northern Norway and Northern Sweden is much more similar than many think. Over the last 60 years, there has been a small negative trend in the relative percentage of the national population that lives in the two regions, with “knowledge cities”, and especially the two university cities Tromsø and Umeå, as the exception. Despite Broxian social theories of regional development in Northern Norway and the implementation of a generous set of regional policies, there seems to be no cause to claim that Northern Norway has followed a unique path of development compared to Northern Sweden, neither in general nor in smaller and more rural communities. Responsible Editor: Øyvind Ravna, UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway |
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