This book presents a multifaceted perspective on regional development and corresponding processes of adaptation and response, focusing on the concepts of polarization and peripheralization. It discusses theoretical and empirical foundations and presents several compelling case studies from Central and Eastern Europe and beyond.

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Anna Badyina, University of Southampton, UK

József Benedek, Babe?-Bolyai University, Romania

Isolde Brade, Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Germany

Joachim Burdack, Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Germany

Helen Carter, Aalborg University, Denmark

Tobias Chilla, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany

Maros Finka, Central European Research and Training Centre in Spatial Planning, Slovakia

Oleg Golubchikov, Cardiff University, UK

Tomas Hanell, Aalto University, Finland

Sebastian Henn, Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, Germany

Max Holleran, New York University, USA

Kathrin Hörschelmann, University of Durham, UK

Ray Hudson, University of Durham, UK

Aksana Ismailbekova, Centre of Modern Orient, Germany

Tatiana Kluvánková-Oravská, Centre for Transdisciplinary Studies of Institutions, Evolution and Policies, Slovakia

György Kocziszky, Miskolc University, Hungary

Zoltán Kovács, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary

Thilo Lang, Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Germany

Tim Leibert, Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Germany

Alla Makhrova, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia

Frank Meyer, Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Germany

Kostyantyn Mezentsev, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kiev, Ukraine

Nataliia Mezentseva, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kiev, Ukraine

Judith Miggelbrink, Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Germany

Giulia Montanari, Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Germany

Robert Nadler, Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Germany

Erika Nagy, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary

Gábor Nagy, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary

Markus Neufeld, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany

Carola Neugebauer, RWTH University in Aachen, Germany

Vladimir Ondrejicka, Slovak University of Technology, Slovakia

John Pickles, University of North Carolina, USA

Grygorii Pidgrushnyi, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Garri Raagmaa, University of Tartu, Estonia

Wladimir Sgibnev, Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Germany

Adrian Smith, Queen Mary University of London, UK

Judit Timár, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary

Gábor Velkey, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary

Karin Wiest, Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Germany

Michael Woods, Aberystwyth University, UK