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Global Trends in Facing the Triple Ds: Dynamics, Challenges, and Opportunities

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Depopulation, Deindustrialisation and Disasters

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This chapter provides an overview of selected demographic and economic challenges for local communities in America, Europe, and East Asia. Special attention is given to ongoing processes of depopulation and deindustrialization. These trends are well known in many countries, but all too often thought of and treated separately. Instead, these trends have to be understood in their interactions, and integrated strategies of inclusive development have to be implemented to deal with urban shrinkage. The shrinking cities phenomenon represents a major challenge to review the principles upon which urban policy has traditionally been based. Creative and flexible urban strategies that consider the local and national contexts are needed in highly uncertain environments. A realistic view might focus on inclusive development instead of reversing economic decline in one-sided GDP growth.

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    Seneca, Moral letters to Lucilius/Letter 91, XCI. On the Lesson to be Drawn from the Burning of Lyon.

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    Here referring to the EU15, including the 15 member countries in the European Union prior to the accession of ten countries in May 2004. EU15 comprised: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom.

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Wiechmann, T. (2019). Global Trends in Facing the Triple Ds: Dynamics, Challenges, and Opportunities. In: Shiraishi, K., Matoba, N. (eds) Depopulation, Deindustrialisation and Disasters. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14475-3_1

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