Economic Geography: Regional Growth Lab

The purpose of the course is to provide insights into central methods in economic geography and their applications. Furthermore, the course provides an introduction to the connection between theory and research method in economic geography, and to the relationship between regional growth issues and democracy and equality perspectives. Ethical issues linked to regional growth are also touched upon in the course.

The course begins with an overview of different methods within economic geography, and how basic analysis methods within the discipline can be applied to existing qualitative and quantitative data materials. The course participants themselves choose a region in the Nordics as the area of application for the methods. Based on the regional analyses, the relationship of the methods to economic-geographic theories is then discussed. In conclusion, the analysis of the regional growth is related to a broader picture of democracy and gender equality, as well as ethical issues that arise in the regions in connection with regional growth.