Norbert Vanhove (PhD Economic Sciences, Erasmus University, Rotterdam) started his career in tourism at WES Research & Strategy (Bruges) and is co-founder and honorary president of TRC (Tourism Research Center). He is one of the founding fellows of IAST (International Academy for the Study of Tourism) and has been vice-president of AIEST for over ten years. He has been visiting professor (1967-2001) and later treasurer at the College of Europe. Since 2002 he has been part-time professor at KULeuven (Tourism). In the years 1979-2000 he was general director of the Regional Development Authority of West-Flanders and of WES Research & Strategy.
1. The Background to and Motivation for a Reginal Economic Policy at a
National Level. 2. Regional Disparities in the European Union. 3. Region: a
Relative Notion. 4. Micro and Macro-Aspects of the Location of Firms. 5.
European Urban Developments and Urban Planning. 6. The Impact of
Integration on the Regions. 7. Objectives and Strategies of Regional
Economic Policy. 8. Instruments and Evaluation of Regional Economic Policy
in EU Countries. 9. Regional Economic Policy at the European Union Level.
10. The Structural Funds 1989-99. 11. 2000 and Beyond.
