Frontier Regions in Western Europe survive in tough times and a special chapter for

and a special chapter for trauma assessment

it analyzes which of these aspects have played a role in three different linking activities of the EU: (1) a failed linking attempt: EU ETS–California Cap-and-Trade Program

interpret its meaning for the choices we face

a field of study still lacking systematic investigation

common evolutionary perspective

Frontier Regions in Western Europe survive in tough times and a special chapter forFirst published in 1983. The problem of defining a frontier region is a leitmotiv of this collection of articles but each perspective requires its own definition. The definition of regions has long been controversial and the attempt to define a sub set of them frontier regions according to precise geographical or socio economic criteria can be useful only for limited purposes as, for example, in the study of transfrontier labour markets. This text