Local and Regional Development
Local and Regional Development by Andy Pike
English | 28 Sept. 2006 | ISBN: 0415357179, 0415357187 | 328 Pages | PDF | 4 MB
English | 28 Sept. 2006 | ISBN: 0415357179, 0415357187 | 328 Pages | PDF | 4 MB
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.