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Politics, Institutions and Regional Restructuring Processes: From Managed Growth to Planned Fragmentation in the Reconversion of Belgium's Last Coal Mining Region

Guy Baeten
,
Erik Swyngedouw
&
Louis Albrechts
Pages 247-258 | Published online: 18 Aug 2010

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