Actors and institutions in localities and regions across the world are seeking prosperity and well-being amidst tumultuous and disruptive shifts and transitions generated by: an increasingly globalised; knowledge-intensive capitalism; global financial instability; volatility and crisis; concerns about economic; social and ecological sustainability; climate change and resource shortages; new multi-actor and multi-level systems of government and governance and a re-ordering of the international political economy; state austerity and retrenchment; and; new and reformed approaches to intervention; policy and institutions for local and regional development. Local and Regional Development provides an accessible; critical and integrated examination of local and regional development theory; institutions and policy in this changing context. Amidst its rising importance; the book addresses the fundamental issues of lsquo;what kind of local and regional development and for whom?rsquo;; its purposes; principles and values; frameworks of understanding; approaches and interventions; and integrated approaches to local and regional development throughout the world. The approach provides a theoretically informed; critical analysis of contemporary local and regional development in an international and multi-disciplinary context; grounded in concrete empirical analysis from experiences in the global North and South. It concludes by identifying what might constitute holistic; inclusive; progressive and sustainable local and regional development; and reflecting upon its limits and political renewal.
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