, demography and
cultural change can affect the fortunes of a country’s business organisation and can ultimately
help to alter its industrial structure, with some firms and industries and sectors
growing and developing, while others are facing decline and possibly extinction.
The spatial consequences of structural change are easy to imagine: within an economy,
over time, one would expect to see patterns of unequal development, with some areas prospering
in economic, social and environmental terms (e.g. jobs, income, infrastructural
development), while others are experiencing less favourable conditions.