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Read more about Nordic co-operation on regional development and planning Nordregio is an international research centre for regional development and planning. Read more about our latest research topics, news and 55 000 km2, 15 municipalities and 268 000 people, of which almost 80 % live in the four costal municipalities. Region Västerbotten is interesting in several ways: the area faces the same challenges as many other European rural areas with an ageing.. Have we failed to integrate Christmas traditions? Risalamande, luumukiisseli, malt og appelsin, gløgg, julmust, Kalle Anka och hans vänner önskar God Jul, Home Alone and Nightmare before Christmasare dishes, drinks and movies are all part of the C.. Sustainable building and the new bioeconomy were in focus at the two Nordregio events at COP24. They were part of an extensive programme at the Nordic Pavilion, which for the fourth COP in a row created an exciting platform for dialogue and knowledge.. Rural development in a changing regional landscape was the headline for this year’s Nordregio Forum that brought some 130 participants from the entire Nordic-Baltic region together in Lund for an exciting two days of presentations and discussions.. European Journal of Spatial Development (EJSD) is a peer-reviewed open access journal published by Nordregio. THE COMPACT CITY OF THE NORTH: – FUNCTIONS, CHALLENGES AND PLANNING STRATEGIES. In this report, the characteristics and consequences of the compact city ideal in Nordic cities, and more specifically in their city centres, are investigated. The research was done in the form of a series of small case studies of city centre develop... ENHANCED LABOUR MARKET OPPORTUNITIES FOR IMMIGRANT WOMEN – ARCTIC CASE STUDIES. Migration has been a major source of population increase in the Nordic countries for the past decades. Meanwhile, the employment gap between refugees and immigrants, on the one hand, and the native-born population on the other has increased. This rep..