Handbook of Local and Regional Development

ISBN-13: 9780415548311 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 642 str.

Opis

This handbook provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for local and regional development in an international and multi-disciplinary context.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: A Handbook of Local and Regional Development  Section 1: Local and Regional Development in a Global Context  2. Globalisation and Regional Development  3. Territorial Competition  4. Local and Regional ‘Development Studies’  Section 2: Defining the Principles and Values of Local and Regional Development  5. Regional Disparities and Equalities: Towards a Capabilities Perspective?  6. Inclusive Growth: Meaningful Goal or Mirage?  7. The Green State: Sustainability and the Power of Purchase  8. Alternative Approaches to Local and Regional Development  Section 3: Concepts and Theories of Local and Regional Development  9. Spatial Circuits of Value  10. Labour and Local and Regional Development  11. Local and Regional Development: A Global Production Network Approach  12. Evolutionary Approaches to Local and Regional Development Policy  13. Innovation, Learning and Knowledge Creation in Co-Localised and Distant Contexts  14. Culture, Creativity, and Urban Development  15. Post-Socialism and Transition  16. Migration and Commuting: Local and Regional Development Links  17. Within and Outwith/Material and Political? Local Economic Development and the Spatialities of Economic Geographies  18. Spaces of Social Innovation  19. Forging Post-Development Partnerships: Possibilities for Local and Regional Development  Section 4: Government and Governance  20. The State: Government and Governance  21. Putting ‘the political’ Back into the Region: Power, Agency and a Reconstituted Regional Political Economy  22. Territorial/Relational: Conceptualizing Spatial Economic Governance  23. Institutional Geographies and Local Economic Development: Policies and Politics  24. Carbon Control Regimes, Eco-State Restructuring and the Politics of Local and Regional Development  25. Competitive Cities and Problems of Democracy  26. The Politics of Local and Regional Development  27. Spatial Planning and Territorial Development Policy  Section 5: Local and Regional Development Policy  28. Endogenous Approaches to Local and Regional Development Policy  29. Territorial Competitiveness and Local and Regional Economic Development: A Classic Tale of ‘Theory Led by Policy’  30. Finance and Local and Regional Economic Development  31. Green Dreams in a Cold Light  32. SMEs, Entrepreneurialism and Local/Regional Development  33. Transnational Corporations and Local and Regional Development  34. Innovation Networks and Local and Regional Development Policy  35. Universities and Regional Development  36. Transportation Networks, the Logistics Revolution and Regional Development  37. (Im)migration, Local, Regional and Uneven Development  38. Neoliberal Urbanism in Europe  39. Gender, Migration and Socio-Spatial Transformations in Southern European Cities  Section 6: Global Perspectives  40. The Experience of Local and Regional Development in Africa  41. Globalization, Urbanization and Decentralization: The Experience of Asian Pacific Cities Shiuh-Shen Chien  42. Local Development: A Response to the Economic Crisis: Lessons from Latin America  43. North American Perspectives on Local and Regional Development  44. Area Definition and Classification and Regional Development Finance: The European Union and China  Section 7: Reflections and Futures  45. The Language of Local and Regional Development  46. The Evaluation of Local and Regional Development Policy  47. The New Regional Governance and the Hegemony of Neoliberalism. All change – No change?  48. Local Left Strategy Now  49. Local and Regional Development: Reflections and Futures