Local and regional development
Pike, Andy, 1968-2016
Book
This publication provides an accessible, critical and integrated examination of local and regional development theory, institutions and policy for this changing context. It focuses on its principles and values, frameworks of understanding and interventions. Actors and institutions in localities and regions across the world are seeking prosperity and well-being amidst tumultuous and disruptive shifts and transitions generated by: an increasingly globalised, knowledge-intensive capitalism; global financial instability, volatility and crisis; concerns about economic, social and ecological sustainability, climate change and resource shortages; new multi-actor and multi-level systems of government and governance and a re-ordering of the international political economy; state austerity and retrenchment; and, new and reformed approaches to intervention, policy and institutions for local and regional development. Local and Regional Development provides an accessible, critical and integrated examination of local and regional development theory, institutions and policy in this changing context. Amidst its rising importance, the book addresses the fundamental issues of `what kind of local and regional development and for whom?', its purposes, principles and values, frameworks of understanding, approaches and interventions, and integrated approaches to local and regional development throughout the world. The approach provides a theoretically informed, critical analysis of contemporary local and regional development in an international and multi-disciplinary context, grounded in concrete empirical analysis from experiences in the global North and South. It concludes by identifying what might constitute holistic, inclusive, progressive and sustainable local and regional development, and reflecting upon its limits and political renewal.
Main title:
Local and regional development / Andy Pike, Andres Rodriquez-Pose, John Tomaney.
Author:
Edition:
Second edition.
Imprint:
London : Routledge, 2016.
Collation:
386 pages : illustrations (black and white)
Notes:
Previous edition: 2006.
Contents:
Preface to the Second EditionPart I - Introduction1. Introduction: local and regional development2. What kind of local and regional development and for whom?Part II - Frameworks of understanding3. Concepts and theories of local and regional development4. Institutions, government and governancePart III - Interventions: rationales, strategies, policies and instruments5. Rationales for intervention, strategy and policy development6. Mobilising indigenous potential7. Attracting and embedding exogenous resourcesPart IV - Integrated approaches8. Local and regional development in practice9. ConclusionsReferencesIndex
ISBN:
9781138785724 (pbk)
Dewey class:
338.9
LC class:
HN49.C6
Language:
English
Subject:
Community developmentRegional economicsRegional planningIndustryHuman geographyThe environmentUrban & municipal planningEconomicsBusiness mathematics & systemsIndustry & industrial studiesCity & town planning: architectural aspectsRegional studiesDevelopment economics & emerging economiesEntrepreneurshipGeography
BRN:
723181