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Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces . A Case Study of Regional Push and Pull Factors for Back-Movers in Northern Iceland , the Faroe Islands and Northern Norway
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Nilsson, Per Åke |
| Copyright Year | 2013 |
| Abstract | In many developed regions, especially in the Western world, centrifugal and centripetal forces are competing for steering migration flows. In 1957, Myrdal already pointed out the existence of an inevitable centripetal force coercing movements from the periphery of a region to its centre as a viable result of the industrialization process going on after World War II [1]. The process was considered to be a necessary and irreversible process causing ongoing depopulation of peripheral regions. This devastating development for the peripheral regions inspired a lot of research and incentives to alter the process, but nothing stopped it in a more profound way. Especially the peripheries of the Nordic countries became fundamentally struck by depopulation like the rest of the North Atlantic region including Iceland, Greenland, Faroe Islands, Northern Norway and the Kola Peninsula in Russia [36], including the Maritime Provinces of Canada [2]. They were all supposed to decrease in population [3] by centripetal forces primarily based on economic decline, with unemployment as a result. Baumann (1998) blames globalization for that depopulation process and he looks upon globalization as a process which compels some of the inhabitants in a peripheral region to accept this development as a means to get happy and for others as a road to destruction [4]. Centre for Research on Settlements and Urbanism |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://geografie.ubbcluj.ro/ccau/jssp/arhiva_1_2013/10JSSP012013.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
