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The injured worker himself is provides the most powerful of all healing and recovery forces, and yet is the most ignored in contemporary disability management practice. The well-meaning attempts to assist the worker return to work by health professionals may actually be prolonging his disability. It's very difficult for most health professionals to step outside the heath professional paradigm and remember that the injured worker is the entity most capable of recovery, and most responsible for it. If the health professional is " working harder than the injured worker", the chances of a successful outcome are minimised. Associating with other professionals by way of referrals, team management practices make it even harder to step outside the health professional paradigm of "we know what's best for you." The advantage of "encouraging", "allowing", "permitting" the injured worker to take the lead role in his own recovery is that the worker can resume the central place in his own life and not become beholden to others. Self-determination in recovery is the principal method whereby an injured worker offsets the psycho-social elements of the cause of, and the recovery from, any workplace injury. Psycho-social reasons are the principal reasons why a person becomes injured in the first place and takes longer to recover than he might otherwise do. Without placing the psycho-social element in a place of prominence, much input by Rehabilitation Providers, Physiotherapists, Physicians and other health professionals is not only ineffective, but contributing to the very psycho-social elements which caused the problem in the first place. Allowing the injured worker to take responsibility for his own recovery is vital to this recovery and preventing injury in the future. Health professionals need to be constantly vigilant that their input is contributing to the injured worker helping himself, and not usurping that role.

City-regions are widely recognised as key to economic and social revitalisation. Hardly surprising then is how policy elites have sought to position their own city-regions strategically within international circuits of capital accumulation. Typically this geopolitics of city-regionalism has been seen to represent a new governmentalised remapping of state space conforming to the prevailing orthodoxy of neoliberal state spatial restructuring. Through a case study of the Atlantic Gateway Strategy, this paper provides a lens on to an alternative vision for city-region development. The brainchild of a private investment group, Peel Holdings, the Atlantic Gateway is important because it points towards the production of new non-state spatial strategies. Examining Peel's motives for invoking the city-region concept, the paper goes on to explore the tensions which currently surround the strategy to further identify the potential and scope for non-state spatial strategies. Connecting this to emerging debates around the key role of asset ownership and the privatisation of local democracy and the democratic state, the paper concludes by suggesting that the key question arising is can and will the state maintain its degree of governmental control over capital investment in major urban regions in an era where persistent underprovision of investment in urban economic infrastructure behoves institutions of the state to become ever more reliant on private investment groups to deliver the deliver the jobs, growth and regeneration of the future.

There is no denying the resurgence of regions in globalisation. Nonetheless, accounts professing to explain the resurgence of regions in globalization have been inferring transition from "old world" territorially embedded politico-administrative regions to a brave "new world" of more relationally networked city (or metropolitan) region. With particular reference to the discursive frame of European Metropolitan Region in Germany, this article briefly outlines the purported transition at hand, explores the argument that new regional spaces are, in fact, emerging to sit alongside and complement, more than replace, inherited forms of state scalar organisation, before looking at the implications for future research offering perspectives on the contemporary metropolitan regional challenge. ; Unbestreitbar erfährt die Diskussion von Regionen in der Globalisierung eine Neubelebung. Dennoch muss die Annahme hinterfragt werden, dass das Wiedererstarken von Regionen in der Globalisierung mit der Umwandlung von einer "alten Welt", die territorial in politisch-administrative Regionen eingebettet ist, in eine schöne "neue Welt", die aus eher relational vernetzten Stadt- (oder Metropol-)Regionen besteht, umfassend erklärt werden kann. Mit besonderem Bezug auf den Diskurs zu Europäischen Metropolregionen in Deutschland wird in diesem Beitrag die angeblich vorliegende Umwandlung umrissen. Dabei wird argumentiert, dass neue regionale Räume tatsächlich an Bedeutung zunehmen, aber dass diese Bedeutungszunahme viel mehr aus einem Nebeneinander und einer gegenseitigen Ergänzung der beiden oben genannten Welten resultiert als aus einem Ersetzen einer Organisationsform durch eine andere. Abschließend werden Konsequenzen für zukünftige Forschungen diskutiert, die neue Perspektiven auf die zeitgenössische, metropolregionale Herausforderung bieten.