Local Economic Development and the Environment

Local Economic Development and the Environment
Author: David Gibbs
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2005-07-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1134703813

This book focuses upon the potential to integrate economic and environmental policies at the local and regional scale. Local initiatives are investigated within their wider economic and environmental policy contexts in order to illustrate both the constraints and opportunities for local policy makers. Attention is given to global economic trends, as well as to the specific policy contexts of the European Union and the national contexts of the UK, USA, Australia, Japan and Sweden. The key principles for designing integrative policies and descriptions of initiatives and projects in a variety of locations are also considered.

The Rise of the English Regions?

The Rise of the English Regions?
Author: Irene Hardill
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2006-10-03
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1134306075

This book analyzes devolution as it affects the English Regions, working from the perspective of uneven development, and drawing on the rich tradition of regional geography. Currently, London is the power centre ruling over the other English regions. The first part of the book looks at how this regional structure has arisen, and the theories that can be used to analyze it. The contributors discuss the nature of regional problems and governance, the institutions involved in regional governance and regional approaches to economic development. The second part of the book devotes a chapter to each English region, examining each region’s unique characteristics, and the opportunities created for it by devolution. By looking carefully at the regions, this part of the book sheds light on the question of whether Regional governance benefits the regions, or simply rescales governance to introduce another layer of bureaucracy.

East Midlands Development Agency and the regional economic strategy

East Midlands Development Agency and the regional economic strategy
Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: East Midlands Regional Select Committee
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2009-07-29
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780215540577

East Midlands Development Agency and the regional economic Strategy : First report of Session 2008-09

The Regulation of Science and Technology

The Regulation of Science and Technology
Author: Helen Lawton Smith
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2001-11-14
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0230554520

The worst chemical disaster ever could be happening right now. In India and Bangladesh between forty and eighty million people are at risk of consuming too much arsenic from well water that might have already caused one hundred thousand cancer cases and thousands of deaths. Many millions elsewhere in South-East Asia and South America may soon suffer a similar fate. Venomous Earth is the story of this tragedy: the geology, the biology, the politics and the history. It starts in Ancient Greece, touches down in today's North America and takes in William Morris, alchemy, farming, medicine, mining and a cosmetic that killed two popes.

Transitions in Regional Economic Development

Transitions in Regional Economic Development
Author: Ivan Turok
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2018-10-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1351387782

At a time of extraordinary challenges confronting the world, this book analyses some of the profound changes occurring in the development of cities and regions. It discusses the uncertainties associated with the stalling of hyper-globalization and asks whether this creates opportunities for resurgent regional economies driven by local capabilities, resource efficiencies and domestic production. Theory and evidence on socio-economic and environmental transitions underway in many regions are brought together. Implications of the shifting balance of global power towards emerging economies in the East are explored, along with the consequences of urbanization in the global South for politics and democracy. Dilemmas surrounding migration are also discussed, including whether incomers displace local workers and depress wages, or bring benefits in the form of know-how, new technology and investment. More integrative concepts of the region and theories of regional development are analysed, recognising the role of human capital, knowledge, innovation, finance, infrastructure and institutions. This was originally published as a special issue of Regional Studies.

Promoting Local Growth

Promoting Local Growth
Author: Daniel Felsenstein
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2019-05-24
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1351738313

This title was first published in 2001. Focusing on new industries, policies and new forms of governance, the internationally renowned contributors to this volume examine the factors promoting the sub-national economic growth that is paradoxically occurring in an era of globalization.

Regional Agencies and Area-based Regeneration

Regional Agencies and Area-based Regeneration
Author: Brian Robson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2000
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

Regional Development Agencies (RDAs) were established in April 1999 as non-departmental public bodies. Their remit is to promote the economic well-being of the English regions and to further the goals of sustainable development and social inclusion.This report explores the interface between the regional agenda for RDAs and the local delivery of area-based regeneration. The study is based on interviews with those involved in RDAs at senior, board and executive levels, and provides analysis of the regional strategies of the eight existing RDAs.Regional agencies and area-based regeneration looks at:new forms of governance developed alongside the implementation of the RDAs;communication and consultation with regional stakeholders;the development and implementation of regional strategies;the role of RDAs in managing local regeneration;the complexities, contradictions and positive possibilities that devolution provides for regional development. ·[vbTab][vbTab]Regional agencies and area-based regeneration is essential reading for policy makers and those working in RDAs, urban regeneration partnerships, communities involved in urban regeneration and national and local government, as well as anyone with an interest in area regeneration strategies and practice.

Regional Policy in Britain

Regional Policy in Britain
Author: Paul N. Balchin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2021-07-11
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1000411613

Originally published in 1990, this book examines the extent to which the ‘north-south divide’ in the UK has been a reality in recent years. It also reveals the degree to which the gap between the two parts of Britain has worsened. An issue of enduring relevance, particularly given the political drive to ‘level up’ the regions, the book focusses particularly on the 1980s, a period when regional assistance became a victim of both monetarism and free market ideology. The book reviews legislation and considers whether regional policy has been effective and consistent. To widen the debate, the author questions some common assumptions about regional imbalance, and argues that intraregional disparities and the plight of Inner London were causes of concern no less serious than the problem of the north-south imbalance.

The plan for growth

The plan for growth
Author: Great Britain: H.M. Treasury
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2011-03-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780108510533

This supporting document to Budget 2011 (HC 836, ISBN 9780102971033) sets out the Government's plan for sustainable, long-term economic growth for the UK economy. It sets out four ambitions that underpin this objective, these are: to create the most competitive tax system in the G20; to make the UK one of the best places in Europe to start, finance and grow a business; to encourage investment and exports as a route to a more balanced economy and to create a more educated workforce that is the most flexible in Europe. Growth review measures outlined in Chapter 2 cover these priority areas: planning; regulation; trade and inward investment; access to finance; competition; corporate governance; low carbon. The first phase of the review also examined eight sectors of the economy to remove the barriers to growth that affect them: advanced manufacturing; healthcare and life sciences; digital and creative industries; professional and business services; retail; construction; space; tourism.

Local and Regional Development

Local and Regional Development
Author: Andy Pike
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2006-11-22
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1134248547

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.