The Theory Practice And Potential Of Regional Development

Author : Kelly Vodden,David J.A. Douglas,Sean Markey,Sarah Minnes,Bill Reimer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351262149

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The Theory, Practice and Potential of Regional Development by Kelly Vodden,David J.A. Douglas,Sean Markey,Sarah Minnes,Bill Reimer Pdf

Canadian regional development today involves multiple actors operating within nested scales from local to national and even international levels. Recent approaches to making sense of this complexity have drawn on concepts such as multi-level governance, relational assets, integration, innovation, and learning regions. These new regionalist concepts have become increasingly global in their formation and application, yet there has been little critical analysis of Canadian regional development policies and programs or the theories and concepts upon which many contemporary regional development strategies are implicitly based. This volume offers the results of five years of cutting-edge empirical and theoretical analysis of changes in Canadian regional development and the potential of new approaches for improving the well-being of Canadian communities and regions, with an emphasis on rural regions. It situates the Canadian approach within comparative experiences and debates, offering the opportunity for broader lessons to be learnt. This book will be of interest to policy-makers and practitioners across Canada, and in other jurisdictions where lessons from the Canadian experience may be applicable. At the same time, the volume contributes to and updates regional development theories and concepts that are taught in our universities and colleges, and upon which future research and analysis will build.

Author : Kelly Vodden,David J.A. Douglas,Sean Markey,Sarah Minnes,Bill Reimer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351262156

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The Theory, Practice and Potential of Regional Development by Kelly Vodden,David J.A. Douglas,Sean Markey,Sarah Minnes,Bill Reimer Pdf

Canadian regional development today involves multiple actors operating within nested scales from local to national and even international levels. Recent approaches to making sense of this complexity have drawn on concepts such as multi-level governance, relational assets, integration, innovation, and learning regions. These new regionalist concepts have become increasingly global in their formation and application, yet there has been little critical analysis of Canadian regional development policies and programs or the theories and concepts upon which many contemporary regional development strategies are implicitly based. This volume offers the results of five years of cutting-edge empirical and theoretical analysis of changes in Canadian regional development and the potential of new approaches for improving the well-being of Canadian communities and regions, with an emphasis on rural regions. It situates the Canadian approach within comparative experiences and debates, offering the opportunity for broader lessons to be learnt. This book will be of interest to policy-makers and practitioners across Canada, and in other jurisdictions where lessons from the Canadian experience may be applicable. At the same time, the volume contributes to and updates regional development theories and concepts that are taught in our universities and colleges, and upon which future research and analysis will build.

Author : Benjamin Howard Higgins,Benjamin Higgins,Donald J. Savoie
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781412832854

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Regional Development Theories and Their Application by Benjamin Howard Higgins,Benjamin Higgins,Donald J. Savoie Pdf

Throughout the world today former nationstates, as disparate as Yugoslavia, Somalia, and Canada, have either disintegrated or threaten to splinter into regions. The conflicts are economic, social, ethnic, linguistic, religious, political, and cultural. Higgins and Savoie analyze the reasons for these conflicts and show why attempts to eliminate regional disparities within nations have been largely unsuccessful.

Author : Emil Malizia,Edward J. Feser,Henry Renski,Joshua Drucker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000193992

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Understanding Local Economic Development by Emil Malizia,Edward J. Feser,Henry Renski,Joshua Drucker Pdf

This book offers insights into the process and the practice of local economic development. Bridging the gap between theory and practice it demonstrates the relevance of theory to inform local strategic planning in the context of widespread disparities in regional economic performance. The book summarizes the core theories of economic development, applies each of these to professional practice, and provides detailed commentary on them. This updated second edition includes more recent contributions - regional innovation, agglomeration and dynamic theories – and presents the major ideas that inform economic development strategic planning, particularly in the United States and Canada. The text offers theoretical insights that help explain why some regions thrive while others languish and why metropolitan economies often rise and fall over time. Without theory, economic developers can only do what is politically feasible. This text, however, provides them with a logical tool for thinking about development and establishing an independent basis from which to build the local consensus needed for evidence-based action undertaken in the public interest. Offering valuable perspectives on both the process and the practice of local and regional economic development, this book will be useful for both current and future economic developers to think more profoundly and confidently about their local economy.

Author : Andy Pike,Andrés Rodriguez-Pose,John Tomaney,Andres Rodriguez-Pose
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134248544

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Local and Regional Development by Andy Pike,Andrés Rodriguez-Pose,John Tomaney,Andres Rodriguez-Pose Pdf

Local and regional development is an increasingly global issue. For localities and regions, the challenge of enhancing prosperity, improving wellbeing and increasing living standards has become acute for localities and regions formerly considered discrete parts of the ‘developed’ and ‘developing’ worlds. Amid concern over the definitions and sustainability of ‘development’, a spectre has emerged of deepened unevenness and sharpened inequalities in the development prospects for particular social groups and territories. Local and Regional Development engages and addresses the key questions: what are the principles and values that shape definitions and strategies of local and regional development? What are the conceptual and theoretical frameworks capable of understanding and interpreting local and regional development? What are the main policy interventions and instruments? How do localities and regions attempt to effect development in practice? What kinds of local and regional development should we be pursuing? This book addresses the fundamental issues of ‘what kind of local and regional development and for whom?’, frameworks of understanding, and instruments and policies. It outlines what a holistic, progressive and sustainable local and regional development might constitute before reflecting on its limits and political renewal. With the growing international importance of local and regional development, this book is an essential student purchase, illustrated throughout with maps, figures and case studies from Asia, Europe, and Central and North America.

Author : Charles Gore
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317831761

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Regions in Question (Routledge Revivals) by Charles Gore Pdf

Originally published in1984. Regional development planning has grown rapidly in recent years, as both an academic specialism and a focus of policy and practice. Books and articles on the subject have proliferated, and all across the Third World governments have become commited to it, setting up large new departments and even ministries. Charles Gore argues that this growing popularity of regional planning in developing countries is profoundly paradoxical.

Author : James E. Rowe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351879675

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Theories of Local Economic Development by James E. Rowe Pdf

In economic development, theory and practice exist as two seemingly separate realities. Academics strive to develop or refine theory by drawing on abstract concepts about the way people behave and institutions work, while practitioners draw from a stock of experiences. By bringing together leading theorists and practitioners such as Blakely, Blair, McCann, Luger, Gunder, Stough and Stimson, this book provides the first comprehensive overview of local economic development theories for over fifteen years. It explores the theory behind the key concepts that every economic practitioner must understand and in doing so, ties together the various theories from across the disciplines to practice.

Author : Murat Mikhaĭlovich Albegov,International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis. Regional Development Task
Publisher : North Holland
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039411553

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Regional Development Modeling, Theory and Practice by Murat Mikhaĭlovich Albegov,International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis. Regional Development Task Pdf

Author : David Pinder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351594196

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Regional Economic Development and Policy by David Pinder Pdf

Originally published in 1983, when Europe’s economies were facing the worst recession since the 1930s, this book reviews the outcome of a quarter of a century of research and practical experience in the field of regional economic management. In the spatial context of the European Community, the author explores central issues by integrating the results of his own research with those of economists, geographers, economic historians and psychologists. It provides a wide survey of the subject, demonstrates the complexity of the spatial-economic systems which the regional economic planner seeks to modify, analyses the strategies for regional development employed by national and international agencies and offers a substantial annotated bibliography. Contradictions arising from the contrasting spatial perspectives of national governments and the European Commission are emphasised. Among other things, it concludes that many regional problems strongly reflect perception and behavioural factors as well as purely economic constraints.

Author : Charles G. Gore
Publisher : Methuen Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : City planning
ISBN : UCAL:B4385746

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Regions in Question by Charles G. Gore Pdf

Author : Richard D. Bingham,Robert Mier
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1993-08-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0803948689

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Theories of Local Economic Development by Richard D. Bingham,Robert Mier Pdf

Presenting state-of-the-art theoretical positions on important development issues such as the inner city, technological innovation and rebuilding economic infrastructure are explored in this volume. The contributors to this volume, drawn from various social science backgrounds, explore a variety of theories and examine them in relation to the practical actions of local economic development.

Author : Frans Boekema
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025226387

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Knowledge, Innovation and Economic Growth by Frans Boekema Pdf

Economic geographers and related professionals offer their perspectives on the dynamics of change that shape the economy, examining the transformation of the modern economy into one in which knowledge is the most important resource, and learning the most important process for economic growth. They introduce the paradigm of learning region--a complex of policy, collaboration, and research--and demonstrate its application in case studies from Germany, Holland, and Belgium. Some of the 12 studies were presented at a March 1998 international seminar at Tilberg University; the others were invited contributions to round out the coverage. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Robert J. Stimson,Roger R. Stough,Brian H. Roberts
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783662049112

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Regional Economic Development by Robert J. Stimson,Roger R. Stough,Brian H. Roberts Pdf

Regional economic development has attracted the interest of economists, geographers, planners and regional scientists for a long time. And, of course, it is a field that has developed a large practitioner cohort in government and business agencies from the national down to the state and local levels. In planning for cities and regions, both large and small, economic development issues now tend to be integrated into strategic planning processes. For at least the last 50 years, scholars from various disciplines have theorised about the nature of regional economic development, developing a range of models seeking to explain the process of regional economic development, and why it is that regions vary so much in their economic structure and performance and how these aspects of a region can change dramatically over time. Regional scientists in particular have developed a comprehensive tool-kit of methodologies to measure and monitor regional economic characteristics such as industry sectors, employment, income, value of production, investment, and the like, using both quantitative and qualitative methods of analysis, and focusing on both static and dynamic analysis. The 'father of regional science', Walter lsard, was the first to put together a comprehensive volume on techniques of regional analysis (Isard 1960), and since then a huge literature has emerged, including the many titles in the series published by Springer in which this book is published.

Author : Robert C. Brears
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 2334 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030877453

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The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Futures by Robert C. Brears Pdf

While urban settlements are the drivers of the global economy and centres of learning, culture, and innovation and nations rely on competitive dynamic regions for their economic, social, and environmental objectives, urban centres and regions face a myriad of challenges that impact the ways in which people live and work, create wealth, and interact and connect with places. Rapid urbanisation is resulting in urban sprawl, rising emissions, urban poverty and high unemployment rates, housing affordability issues, lack of urban investment, low urban financial and governance capacities, rising inequality and urban crimes, environmental degradation, increasing vulnerability to natural disasters and so forth. At the regional level, low employment, low wage growth, scarce financial resources, climate change, waste and pollution, and rising urban peri-urban competition etc. are impacting the ability of regions to meet socio-economic development goals while protecting biodiversity. The response to these challenges has typically been the application of inadequate or piecemeal solutions, often as a result of fragmented decision-making and competing priorities, with numerous economic, environmental, and social consequences. In response, there is a growing movement towards viewing cities and regions as complex and sociotechnical in nature with people and communities interacting with one another and with objects, such as roads, buildings, transport links etc., within a range of urban and regional settings or contexts. This comprehensive MRW will provide readers with expert interdisciplinary knowledge on how urban centres and regions in locations of varying climates, lifestyles, income levels, and stages development are creating synergies and reducing trade-offs in the development of resilient, resource-efficient, environmentally friendly, liveable, socially equitable, integrated, and technology-enabled centres and regions.

Author : Gary Craig,Keith Popple,Mae Shaw
Publisher : Spokesman Books
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780851247304

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Community Development in Theory and Practice by Gary Craig,Keith Popple,Mae Shaw Pdf

Since its establishment in 1966, the Community Development Journal has maintained its position as the leading international journal for practitioners, academics and policy-makers across the world. To celebrate its fortieth anniversary, the CDJ's Editorial Board commissioned three highly experienced members, two of them former editors, to bring together a representative sample of the best writing from the Journal. The thirty chapters in this volume, including an entirely new introductory contextual essay, are drawn from every corner of the world, demonstrating the richness and diversity of community development theory and practice. Despite this diversity, the changing foci of community development and the varying contexts in which it is practised, the chapters all reflect the commitment of community development theorists and practitioners to engage critically with the key values of social justice -- equality, fairness, participatory development and respect for difference. This book will become a key text for those concerned with implementing these values in practice.