Regions, cities, and rural areas across Europe and within countries are facing different challenges and opportunities concerning shrinkage. The diversity of processes that determine those challenges and opportunities, depends on the pathways of economic restructuring, local capacities, on the resilience of local public services and on local initiatives. For shrinking areas and rural regions, new opportunities can reshuffle the cards and some territorial disadvantages might be turned into assets.

Luuk Boelens and Tom Goosse contribute.

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