Heikki Jussila, Roser Majoral, Fernanda Delgado-Cravidao

• 1: Introduction; 1: Effects of globalization; 2: Globalization, deregulation, marginalization: Where are we at the end of the millennium?; 3: Globalization and economic marginalization: North-South differences; 4: Great Plains settlement: Globalization and deregulation; 5: Southern Patagonia facing; 6: Managing integration and marginalization for the New Europe; 2: Policies and politics of change; 7: A Northern dimension for the European Union: Background and proposals; 8: Rural Northern Finland and EU-membership; 9: The Tuscany observatory of rural society development: A policy tool against spatial and information marginalization; 10: The deep rural context and micro-regional changes in Southern Portugal; 11: Unforeseen regional effects as a result of corporatization of government administrative bodies; 12: Consequences of regulation and deregulation in marginal and critical economies of the U.S. Pacific Northwest 1; 13: Deregulation and marginality: New public policies and new approaches to the planning of tourism; 3: From economic to social issues; 14: From economic marginality to the problems of ‘quality of life’; 15: The ‘old’ and ‘new’ forms of inequality: The case of Portugal; 16: Mill town without its mills: Preliminary assessment of the consequences of industrial abandonment; 17: Demographic factors contributing to regional imbalances in Spain; 18: Social neighbourhoods in peripheries; 19: People who were not there but are now!; 20: Child labour, the reverse of economic globalization in peripheral regions 1; 21: The plight of women in the margins of rural life in Africa: The case of Zimbabwe; 4: Conclusions and summary; 22: Conclusions and summary