A place-based approach will support regions to realise their aspirations of no longer being left behind. But what is that and how should they do it?
Jeroen Royer
Jeroen Royer is a researcher in the department of Regional Geography at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (Leipzig, Germany). He has a background in Geography at KU Leuven and Vrije Universiteit Brussel and professional experience as location data analyst. His research interest entail spatial inequalities and uneven economic, demographic, and social development. At the moment, he is involved as quantitative researcher in an international research project on patterns of demographic and socio-economic change in ‘left behind places’ in the UK, Germany and France.