Sustainability Appraisal of Regional Development Assistance in Remote Rural Economies:
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By using its Structural Funds to deliver a coherent programme of assistance based on logical principles, the European Union has taken a leading role in strengthening the capacity of the Scottish Highlands and Islands to deliver effective regional development strategies. This paper demonstrates how this has enabled the region to modify its policies, plans and programmes to satisfy the growing emphasis being placed by the European Union on the sustainability of its development assistance. Parallel progress at United Kingdom, Scottish and local levels is helping to create a more focused range of development initiatives for the area, which are being shaped to respond to local community needs, and being assessed for their contribution towards the goal of sustainability. Taken together, these changes amount to the start of a paradigm shift in policy-makers, planners and programme managers perception and appraisal of regional development in the Highlands and Island, moving them away from a predominant concern with ad hoc, often short-term, boosts to jobs and training, towards initiatives designed to implement long term strategies capable of delivering sustainable pathways for the area. Tony Jackson Geddes Centre for Planning Research School of Town and regional Planning University of Dundee Dundee DD1 4HT Scotland, UK Tel: (0044) 1382 345239 Fax: (0044) 1382 204234 e-mail: [email protected] Working Copy: do not quote this paper or use in any other way without express permission of author
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