Britt Dale

• PhD
• Professor (Full) at Norwegian University of Science and Technology

The article gives a brief historical overview of the changing perspectives of Norwegian regional research and regional policy related to the concept of regional restructuring. It offers an interpretation of the concept ‘path dependence’ and newer, related concepts such as ‘renewal’, ‘reorientation’, and ‘resilience’, which gradually have replaced t...

Carlsson, E. & Dale, B. 2011. Internationalization of knowledge-intensive SMEs: The case of petroleum-related suppliers. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift-Norwegian Journal of Geography Vol. 65, 191-201. ISSN 0029-1951. The internationalization of the knowledge-intensive industries, which predominantly consist of SMEs, has received increased attention re...

The characteristics of three different approaches to welfare studies—the ‘level of living’, the ‘quality of life’ and the ‘mode of living’ approaches—are presented. Their potential and actual application to welfare policy and planning is discussed with reference to specific studies. These examples demonstrate that the various approaches may be usef...

The IGU Symposium on Urban Geography in Lund in 1960 was a path-breaking event towards new nomothetic thinking within the discipline. In nearly half of the papers, the state of the art in central place research was presented and debated. The symposium was the main source of inspiration for a study of the central place system in Midt-Norge in the 19...

Much of the inspiration of the ‘contextual turn’ in economic geography and regional development studies comes from institutional economics, and its focus on economic life as both an instituted process and a socially embedded activity. The concept of institution has been used in a variety of ways, however. Often the concept is defined in a broad and...

Et nasjonalatlas er en tematisk kartsamling som gir både natur- og samfunnsgeografisk informasjon om landet. Nasjonalatlastradisjonen er etterhvert blitt veletablert. De fleste land har utgitt en eller flere utgaver av slike atlas, og Norge er et av de siste land i Europa som får sitt atlas.

Gjennom sosialgeografisk faglitteratur er vi kjent med en rekke tilnærmingsmåter for å identifisere og avgrense små naboskapsenheter i byer (“social areas”, “residential neighbourhoods” etc.). Formålet har som regel vært rent beskrivende, dvs. at en har villet prøve å klassifisere eller få “vitenskapelig orden” på det virvar av ulike bomiljøer som...

Dale B. (1980) Subjective and objective social indicators in studies of regional social well-being, Reg. Studies 14, 503--515. Studies of regional well-being carried out so far have often produced confusing and conflicting results, in particular regarding the degree of correspondence between results based on, respectively, subjective and objective...