[PDF] The Role Of Local Economic Development Policies In The Promotion Of Sustainable Development eBook

Author : Xue Zhang
Publisher :
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 24,44 MB
Release : 2016
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What role do local governments play in promoting sustainable economic development? This thesis uses the most recent 2014 national survey to analyze the relation between development strategies (business incentives and community economic development strategies) and environment and equity goals, and seeks to differentiate factors driving different policy actions. Municipalities that have both environmental sustainability and social equity goals use higher levels of community economic development tools. These communities are also more likely to have written economic development plans, be driven by new development motivations, and involve more participants in the economic development process. By contrast, communities with higher levels of business incentives have lower income, and are driven by traditional motivations, but they use a larger number of funding sources. Other capacity measures have no effect, and do not differentiate types of economic development strategies. This suggests sustainable economic development strategies can be pursued by a broader array of communities. Results of spatial analysis are similar to OLS regression controlling for geographic differences.

Author : Marius Venter
Publisher : AOSIS
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 34,52 MB
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Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 177995235X

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This book endeavours to outline case studies that promote sustainable Local Economic Development (LED) initiatives. It is generally believed that local governments are the foot soldiers of LED. However, this seems to be a myth, as local governments in South Africa and elsewhere have not yet fulfilled this mandate and have been struggling for several years to implement LED initiatives. The distinctive merit of this book lies in the way it combines the South African context with the wider international development context in ways that there is a flow of information and ideas both ways. The book is an essential part of this sequence of ideas development and action at a critical time for strategic action directed at a sustainable future. It showcases case studies and responses to the impacts of globalisation as a bridge between urban/rural and institutional action and reveals avenues for local government leadership in communities, research, student engagement and wider interactions.

Author : Roland V. Anglin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 31,99 MB
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1351552996

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Growing local economies, empowering communities, revitalizing downtowns, developing entrepreneurship, building leadership, and enhancing nonprofits — you can achieve all these benefits and more with a comprehensive and strategic revitalization plan. Chronicling the struggle of local revitalization as organizers move from trial and error to effective revitalization strategies, Promoting Sustainable Local and Community Economic Development documents the current transformation in community revitalization from market-based incentives to mixed strategies of public sector learning, partnerships, and community capacity. Knowledge about the field and what works is growing, but not always publicized and readily accessible. This reference surveys the breadth of innovative place and people development practices, presenting lessons and examples at a general and textured level, putting information about innovative ways to change, influence, and improve the economic development process within easy reach. Roland Anglin brings his unique vantage point to the topic; his experience as a practitioner and applied academic allowed him to see how community economic development practices grow over time in size, scale, and impact. He highlights the difference between what is now termed community economic development (CED) and traditional local economic development practice, specifically the priority placed on community involvement in economic development partnerships between the private sector and government. The book includes case studies that demonstrate what has and has not worked in revitalization efforts, as well as how active public and private sector partnerships have been the most effective in revitalization efforts. A Resource Guide is included at the end of the book for readers who may want a more expansive understanding of community economic development.

Author : David Gibbs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 11,84 MB
Release : 2005-07-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1134703813

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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.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 48,22 MB
Release : 2007-10-30
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ISBN : 9264039880

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This publication offers new insights into the economic theory of social economy organisations, their role in an evolving political and economic context, and the links to local development and the empowerment of users.

Author : Department of Economic & Social Affairs
Publisher : United Nations Publications
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 17,25 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789211045871

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This book presents an overview of the key debates that took place during the Economic and Social Council meetings at the 2007 High-level Segment, at which ECOSOC organized its first biennial Development Cooperation Forum. The discussions also revolved around the theme of the second Annual Ministerial Review, "Implementing the internationally agreed goals and commitments in regard to sustainable development."--P. 4 of cover.

Author : Ruth Kaufmann-Hayoz
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 31,14 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 3034883145

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This book results from a pioneering effort to organize a productive interdisciplinary research program on sustainable development policy in a small country not previously recognized as a world leader in environmental social science. The results are very promising, considering the short time frame and the high barriers to success for such an enterprise - differences in concepts and terminology, disciplinary myopia, and the inherent difficulty of the problem. In the USA, where I work, these barriers continue to pose major challenges after some 30 years of effort. Switzerland has made noteworthy progress in only five. I hope this book represents the beginning of a long term effort at problem-oriented interdisciplinary collaboration among Swiss researchers and prac titioners. The Swiss group has succeeded in developing a unifying framework that makes a major contri bution to environmental policy analysis. The framework broadens policy thinking by giving se rious treatment to underutilized strategies that rely on communication and informal influence as well as to well-studied ones that rely on technological change, regulation, and economic forces. This broad typology makes it easier for an analyst to escape the tendency to presume that the po licy instrument currently in fashion, whether it be market-based instruments, voluntary measures, or whatever, is the right strategy for all problems. It also encourages discipline-based analysts to consider how their favored strategies might be combined with other strategies less familiar to them, and thus to craft strategies that can take advantage of the strengths of various policy instruments.