Oddjørn Bukve, Professor in Organisation and Management, Sogn og Fjordane University Collage, Norway. Henrik Halkier, Head of Department and Professor, Regional and Tourism Studies, University of Aalborg, Denmark. Peter de Souza, research coordinator (ÖSIR, @LIVE), University College of Hedmark, Norway.

• From Europe with Love?; Part I: The state of regional reforms; The long and winding road: Regional reform in Norway; The Swedish Regions -- Development policies and Governance; The 2007 Danish Local Government Reform; Finnish Regions: Aftre transition; Part II: Region formation from below: clustering, policies and emerging structures; The Development of City-Regions in Norway; The Oulu Phenomenon; Patchwork of Finnish Urban Regions; Regional Development Policies and Structural Reform in Denmark; Region Building and Economic Change in Western Norway: The gender- equal region -- a new image for an old region?; Part III: Lessons and conclusion; Nordic regionalisation in a comparative perspective; Contributors.

"The book is a very useful guide to recent thinking about the rise of the regions in the Nordic countries." -- Phil Cooke, Centre for Advanced Studies, Cardiff University, European Planning Studies, Volume 17, No. 2, February 2009

Oddjørn Bukve, Professor in Organisation and Management, Sogn og Fjordane University Collage, Norway. Henrik Halkier, Head of Department and Professor, Regional and Tourism Studies, University of Aalborg, Denmark. Peter de Souza, research coordinator (ÖSIR, @LIVE), University College of Hedmark, Norway.

• From Europe with Love?; Part I: The state of regional reforms; The long and winding road: Regional reform in Norway; The Swedish Regions -- Development policies and Governance; The 2007 Danish Local Government Reform; Finnish Regions: Aftre transition; Part II: Region formation from below: clustering, policies and emerging structures; The Development of City-Regions in Norway; The Oulu Phenomenon; Patchwork of Finnish Urban Regions; Regional Development Policies and Structural Reform in Denmark; Region Building and Economic Change in Western Norway: The gender- equal region -- a new image for an old region?; Part III: Lessons and conclusion; Nordic regionalisation in a comparative perspective; Contributors.

"The book is a very useful guide to recent thinking about the rise of the regions in the Nordic countries." -- Phil Cooke, Centre for Advanced Studies, Cardiff University, European Planning Studies, Volume 17, No. 2, February 2009

Oddjørn Bukve, Professor in Organisation and Management, Sogn og Fjordane University Collage, Norway. Henrik Halkier, Head of Department and Professor, Regional and Tourism Studies, University of Aalborg, Denmark. Peter de Souza, research coordinator (ÖSIR, @LIVE), University College of Hedmark, Norway.

• From Europe with Love?; Part I: The state of regional reforms; The long and winding road: Regional reform in Norway; The Swedish Regions -- Development policies and Governance; The 2007 Danish Local Government Reform; Finnish Regions: Aftre transition; Part II: Region formation from below: clustering, policies and emerging structures; The Development of City-Regions in Norway; The Oulu Phenomenon; Patchwork of Finnish Urban Regions; Regional Development Policies and Structural Reform in Denmark; Region Building and Economic Change in Western Norway: The gender- equal region -- a new image for an old region?; Part III: Lessons and conclusion; Nordic regionalisation in a comparative perspective; Contributors.

"The book is a very useful guide to recent thinking about the rise of the regions in the Nordic countries." -- Phil Cooke, Centre for Advanced Studies, Cardiff University, European Planning Studies, Volume 17, No. 2, February 2009