Handbook of Local and Regional Development

<p>The <em>Handbook of Local and Regional Development</em> provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for local and regional development. The scope of this <em>Handbook’s</em> coverage and contributions engages with and reflects upon the politics and policy of how we think about and practise local and regional development, encouraging dialogue across the disciplinary barriers between notions of ‘local and regional development’ in the Global North and ‘development studies’ in the Global South.</p><p>This <em>Handbook</em> is organized into seven inter-related sections, with an introductory chapter setting out the rationale, aims and structure of the <em>Handbook</em>. Section one situates local and regional development in its global context. Section two establishes the key issues in understanding the principles and values that help us define what is meant by local and regional development. Section three critically reviews the current diversity and variety of conceptual and theoretical approaches to local and regional development. Section four address questions of government and governance. Section five connects critically with the array of contemporary approaches to local and regional development policy. Section six is an explicitly global review of perspectives on local and regional development from Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe, Latin America and North America. Section seven provides reflection and discussion of the futures for local and regional development in an international and multidisciplinary context.</p><p>With over forty contributions from leading international scholars in the field, this <em>Handbook</em> provides critical reviews and appraisals of current state-of-the-art conceptual and theoretical approaches and future developments in local and regional development.</p> <p>1. Introduction: A Handbook of Local and Regional Development<em> </em><strong>Section 1: Local and Regional Development in a Global Context</strong> 2. Globalisation and Regional Development 3. Territorial Competition 4. Local and Regional ‘Development Studies’ <strong>Section 2: Defining the Principles and Values of Local and Regional Development</strong> 5. Regional Disparities and Equalities: Towards a Capabilities Perspective?<em> </em>6. Inclusive Growth: Meaningful Goal or Mirage?<em> </em>7. The Green State: Sustainability and the Power of Purchase<em> </em>8. Alternative Approaches to Local and Regional Development <strong>Section 3: Concepts and Theories of Local and Regional Development</strong> 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 <strong>Section 4: Government and Governance</strong> 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 <strong>Section 5: Local and Regional Development Policy</strong> 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<em> </em>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<em> </em> <strong>Section 6: Global Perspectives</strong> 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 <strong>Section 7: Reflections and Futures</strong> 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<em> </em></p>