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Regional Science, Regional Planning, and the Global South

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This chapter critically reviews the emergence and evolution of Regional Science as an academic discipline for more than the last five decades. For assessing the role of the discipline in hosting the scholarly output, the Scopus Source List 2019 is used. It examines the constraints in Regional Science practices in taking an influential role to disseminate innovative ideas concerning regional planning and assesses its prospects in getting reinstalled at the core of regional and spatial planning strategies. The chapter ends with a critical discussion on why the socially and economically transforming Global South could be an interesting field of investigation for the practitioners of Regional Science.

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    See the Scopus Journal List at www.scopus.com.

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    The Group of 77 (G77) at the United Nations is a coalition of 134 developing countries, designed to promote its members’ collective economic interests and create an enhanced joint negotiating capacity in the United Nations. There were 77 founding members of the organization headquartered in Geneva, but it has since expanded to 134 member countries according to the organization. Current list of member states is available at http://www.g77.org/doc/members.html.

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    The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is an international economic organization of 34 countries, founded in 30 September 1961 to stimulate economic progress and world trade. List of member states is available here: https://www.oecd.org/about/document/list-oecd-member-countries.htm.

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  3. Department of Geography, Dr. Meghnad Saha College, Itahar, West Bengal, India

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  4. Department of Geography, Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Mishra, M., Singh, R.B. (2021). Regional Science, Regional Planning, and the Global South. In: Singh, R.B., Chatterjee, S., Mishra, M., de Lucena, A.J. (eds) Practices in Regional Science and Sustainable Regional Development. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2221-2_1

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