From national to local economic development: theoretical issues

Environmental /Economic Development Issues In

The role of environmental/economic development issues in the Polish motorway and roads programme shows several similarities with the UK, albeit starting off much later. The paper reviews the development of government policy on these issues in relation to the evolving politics of Poland since 1989. The Socialist (reformed Communist) governments are less interested in environmental issues and arg...

Agenda-setting with Local and National Issues

AUTHORS’ NOTE: The research reported on here was supported by a Grant from the University of Michigan’s Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies. Three factors lead to the hypothesis that agenda-setting should be weaker at the local political level compared to the national level: (1) the more directly observable nature of local political problems, (2) the nature and strength of local interp...

Local economic development via urbanism lever: the case of Lebanon

The present paper analyses local economic development issues through the prism of urban governance theories and models. From theoretical corpora to empirical LED case studies, we emphasise, through the anarchy paradigm, the privatisation tendencies of urban planning and development projects in local territories. We have taken an interest in comparative analysis of principal concepts and ...

Human Resource Development: Some Theoretical Issues

Issues of Scale: Ensuring that EBM Works at All Levels, from Local to National and Beyond

Planning often occurs at larger scales than management or conservation interventions. The end result can be that management on the ground is more ad hoc than the idealized scenarios or “management dreams” of regional planners. EBM often runs into trouble when attempts to establish regulations, design research, conduct monitoring and enforcement, or forge international agreements are planned wit...