New Regional Development Paradigms

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New Regional Development Paradigms Volume 2
New Regions--Concepts, Issues, and Practices

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David W. Edgington, Antonio L. Fernandez, Claudia Hoshino

Foreword by Yo Kimura
Published in cooperation with the United Nations and the United Nations Centre for Regional Development

Book Code: GM1766

ISBN: 0-313-31766-6

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-31766-8

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264 pages, figures, tables

Greenwood Press

Publication: 8/30/2001

List Price: $87.95 (UK Sterling Price: £49.95)

Availability: Print on demand

Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Series Title: Contributions in Economics and Economic History

Series Number: 225

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 Kaothien 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. Rodríguez
Bibliography

LC Card Number: 00-049088

LCC Class: HT395

Dewey Class: 338


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