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tial, social, and economic factors of marginalization in the changing global context 12 • Examples of contingent, systemic, leveraged, collateral, and
self-imposed marginality at various scales.
• Geographic marginality and the spatial organization of the
world-economy: the role of free-trade and enterprise zones,
TNCs, and international unions.
• Physical resource endowment vs. dynamic human causation
based marginality.
• Physical and societal dimensions of marginality at different
scales, international, national, regional, metropolitan, in situ.
• Grassroots responses to marginalization.
• Resource exploitation and the problem of exhaustion.
Marginality is a phenomenon not bound to any particular region
or society of the world or to any specific scale.According to all the
above mentioned topics, facts and issuesthe major research objec-
tives of IGU commission C12.29 are as follows:
1. To further the understanding of marginality and the process-
es of marginalization in our globalized world, through the study
and analysis of the forces responsible for the dynamics and
structures of spatial marginality at various scales. They will in-
clude, among others, issues of technology, gender, social struc-
ture and the environment.
2. To analyse marginality as the result of human perceptions and
decisions, leading to the understanding of the role of the var-
ious agents in those processes, and their response to prevail-
ing conditions.
3. To develop comparative approaches in order to identify vari-
ous types of marginality and to put them into perspective and
assess their role in an increasingly globalized world. Emphasis in
particular needs to be placed on the experience of the South.
4. To study policy/institutional/community responses to eco-
nomic and societal problems in marginal regions at various
scales in relation to local, regional and societal development,
and to study human responses to global change, including their
implications for marginalization.
The use and the development of appropriate theory and method-
ology is to be involved in each of the above.
self-imposed marginality at various scales.
• Geographic marginality and the spatial organization of the
world-economy: the role of free-trade and enterprise zones,
TNCs, and international unions.
• Physical resource endowment vs. dynamic human causation
based marginality.
• Physical and societal dimensions of marginality at different
scales, international, national, regional, metropolitan, in situ.
• Grassroots responses to marginalization.
• Resource exploitation and the problem of exhaustion.
Marginality is a phenomenon not bound to any particular region
or society of the world or to any specific scale.According to all the
above mentioned topics, facts and issuesthe major research objec-
tives of IGU commission C12.29 are as follows:
1. To further the understanding of marginality and the process-
es of marginalization in our globalized world, through the study
and analysis of the forces responsible for the dynamics and
structures of spatial marginality at various scales. They will in-
clude, among others, issues of technology, gender, social struc-
ture and the environment.
2. To analyse marginality as the result of human perceptions and
decisions, leading to the understanding of the role of the var-
ious agents in those processes, and their response to prevail-
ing conditions.
3. To develop comparative approaches in order to identify vari-
ous types of marginality and to put them into perspective and
assess their role in an increasingly globalized world. Emphasis in
particular needs to be placed on the experience of the South.
4. To study policy/institutional/community responses to eco-
nomic and societal problems in marginal regions at various
scales in relation to local, regional and societal development,
and to study human responses to global change, including their
implications for marginalization.
The use and the development of appropriate theory and method-
ology is to be involved in each of the above.
