Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface / Barraclough, Solon L. -- Introduction -- PART ONE: Regional policy as a problem for regional theory -- 1. Regional policies: A theoretical framework / Porwit, Krzysztof -- 2. General history of regional policies: A proposal of a worldwide comparative study / Kuklinski, Antoni -- 3. Methodological problems in regional science / Chojnicki, Zbyszko -- 4. Regional economics within the system of economic science / Secomski, Kazimierz -- 5. Regional economic policy: An institutional-economic approach / Lambooy, J.G. -- 6. A Phenomenological orientation in the spatial sciences? / Jansen, A.C.M. -- 7. Social issues of space economy / Piöro, Zygmont -- 8. A Typology of regional policies / Bivand, Roger -- 9. The living conditions approach to regional sociology / Ciechocinska, Maria -- 10. For a new style and method of planning / Komorowski, Stanislaw -- 11. Some notes on the methodology of development planning / Botterweg, T.H. / Klaassen, L.H. / Vianen, J.G. -- 12. Long-term spatial, continental, and subcontinental studies and programming / Pajestka, Jözef -- PART TWO: EXPERIENCES AND PROSPECTS IN THE NETHERLANDS -- 13. Review and evaluation of Dutch regional socio-economic policy / Oosterhaven, Jan / Folmer, Hendrik -- 14. Measurement of employment effects of Dutch regional socioeconomic policy / Folmer, Hendrik / Oosterhaven, Jan -- 15. Regional policy and environmental problems / Boekema, Frans / Straaten, Jan van der -- 16. Two cases of integral planning at the regional level in the northern part of the Netherlands / Raedts, Lodewijk J.C.M. -- 17. Questioning integral regional policy / Huigsloot, P.C.M. / Lustgraaf, R.E. van de -- PART THREE: EXPERIENCES AND PROSPECTS IN POLAND -- 18. Space economy of Poland: Apparent and real problems / Kuklinski, Antoni -- 19. Regional development in Poland: Lessons of experience / Kuklinski, Antoni -- 20. The regional diversification of the standard of living in Poland, its dynamics and structure / Gorzelak, Grzegorz -- 21. Regional differences in Poland / Krzeczkowska, Eugenia -- 22. Regional development policies in Poland: Ways of formulation and instruments of implementation / Gruchman, Bohdan -- 23. Physical planning in Poland: The changing fate of the doctrine / Jedraszko, Andrzejweiterlesen