From 'growth centre' to 'cluster': Restructuring, regional development, and the Teesside chemical industry

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 597-615

  Chapman, Keith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; TEESSIDE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 17744369468     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a36270     Document Type: Article

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