New regions--concepts, issues, and practices
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New regions--concepts, issues, and practices
(Contributions in economics and economic history, no. 225 . New regional development paradigms ; v. 2)
Greenwood Press, 2001
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Available at 29 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
"Published in cooperation with the United Nations and the United Nations Centre for Regional Development"
Bibliography: p. [215]-233
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
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ISBN 9780313317668
Description
Covering experiences from transitional, industrialized, and developing economies, this timely book emphasizes the critical prerequisites for effective regional planning. These prerequisites include sustainable institutions, social mechanisms, trust relationships, leadership, and public-private sector partnerships. Questioning many conventional approaches, the book considers the changing context in which regional planning now occurs. Exploring globalization, regions straddling international borders, the position of transitional economies, decentralization and empowerment of local governments, regional competitiveness, mega-urban regions, and new forms of regional governments this work covers much ground. Using such examples as the Arizona-Sonora corridor, the book specifically considers cross-border regions, or trade corridors, including the need to include economic complementarity and cultural differences in development policy. Examining the need to redefine regional planning, the book concludes with innovative strategies from China, Thailand, Japan, and the Philippines as well as the Americas.
With contributions from both academe and practitioners, the volume shows that regional development planning involves integrated physical, economic, and social planning and that regional development planning has to address new regional forms, regional competition, and local governance. Based on fully revised papers given at a United Nations Centre for Regional Development conference, the book illustrates the changing context in which regional planning is now conducted, thereby providing a useful resource for planners and academics.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- The Changing Context of Regional Planning by David W. Edgington and Antonio L. Fernandez
- Cross-Border Regions: New Approaches to Regional Development
- Cross-Border Development in a Changing World: Redefining Regional Development Policies by Chung-Tong Wu
- Trade Corridors: The Emerging Regional Development Planning Unit in Latin America by Stephen O. Bender, New Strategies of Transborder Regional Development by Pablo Wong-Gonzalez
- Regional and Metropolitan Development Strategies
- Redefining Regional Development Strategies in China by Wang Huijiong
- Regional Development in Thailand: New Issues, New Responses by Utis Kaoth en and Douglas Webster
- Learning Regions in Japan: Any Lessons for Developing Countries? by David W. Edgington Metropolitan Arragements in the Philippines: Passing Fancy or the Future Megatrend? by Ruben G. Mercado and Rosario Gregorio-Manasan
- Leadership in Regional Economic Development Strategic Planning by Roger R. Stough, Mark DeSantis, Robert Stimpson and Brian Roberts
- Decentralization, Globalization, and Regional Development in Latin America-Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities by Claudia Hoshino and Maria Helena Z. Rodriguez
- Bibliography.
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: set ISBN 9780313319174
Description
As we enter the 21st century, regional development planning takes center stage in developing countries. Issues likely to shape the form and content of future regional planning include the significance of globalization, the role of decentralization, and the planning of environmentally sustainable regions, as well as new ways of thinking about regional development. Based on a United Nations Global Forum on Regional Development Policy, these four volumes provide an overview of these challenges and the oppurtunities facing regional development in the new century.
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