"Handbook of Local and Regional Development" ed. by Andy Pike, Andrés Rodríguez-Pose and John Tomaney (Repost)

This Handbook provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for local and regional development. The scope of this book’s coverage and contributions engages with and reflects upon the politics and policy of how we think about and practise local and regional development, encouraging dialogue across the disciplinary barriers between notions of ‘local and regional development’ in the Global North and ‘development studies’ in the Global South.

With over forty contributions from leading international scholars in the field, this Handbook provides critical reviews and appraisals of current state-of-the-art conceptual and theoretical approaches and future developments in local and regional development.

This Handbook is organized into seven inter-related sections, with an introductory chapter setting out the rationale, aims and structure of the Handbook.
Section one situates local and regional development in its global context.
Section two establishes the key issues in understanding the principles and values that help us define what is meant by local and regional development.
Section three critically reviews the current diversity and variety of conceptual and theoretical approaches to local and regional development.
Section four address questions of government and governance.
Section five connects critically with the array of contemporary approaches to local and regional development policy.
Section six is an explicitly global review of perspectives on local and regional development from Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe, Latin America and North America.
Section seven provides reflection and discussion of the futures for local and regional development in an international and multidisciplinary context.

Brief Contents
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Contributors
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
Section I. Local and regional development in a global context
2 Globalization and regional development
3 Territorial competition
4 Local and regional 'Development Studies'
Section II. Defi ning the principles and values of local and regional development
5 Regional disparities and equalities: Towards a capabilities perspective?
6 Inclusive growth: Meaningful goal or mirage?
7 The Green State: Sustainability and the power of purchase
8 Alternative approaches to local and regional development
Section III. Concepts and theories of local and regional development
9 Spatial circuits of value
10 Labor and local and regional development
11 Local and regional development: A global production network approach
12 Evolutionary approaches to local and regional development policy
13 Innovation, learning and knowledge creation in co-localised and distant contexts
14 Culture, creativity, and urban development
15 Post-socialism and transition
16 Migration and commuting: Local and regional development links
17 Within and outwith/material and political? Local economic development and the spatialities of economic geographies
18 Spaces of social innovation
19 Forging post-development partnerships: Possibilities for local and regional development
Section IV.Government and governance
20 The state: Government and governance
21 Putting 'the political' back into the region: Power, agency and a reconstituted regional political economy
22 Territorial/relational: Conceptualizing spatial economic governance
23 Institutional geographies and local economic development: Policies and politics
24 Carbon control regimes, eco-statere structuring and the politics of local and regional development
25 Competitive cities and problems of democracy
26 The politics of local and regional development
27 Spatial planning and territorial development policy
Section V. Local and regional development policy
28 Endogenous approaches to local and regional development policy
29 Territorial competitiveness and local and regional economic development: A classic tale of 'theory led by policy'
30 Finance and local and regional economic development
31 Green dreams in a cold light
32 SMEs, entrepreneurialism and local/regional development
33 Transnational corporations and local and regional development
34 Innovation networks and local and regional development policy
35 Universities and regional development
36 Transportation networks, the logistics revolution and regional development
37 (Im)migration, local, regional and uneven development
38 Neoliberal urbanism in Europe
39 Gender, migration and socio-spatial transformations in Southern European cities
Section VI. Global perspectives
40 The experience of local and regional development in Africa
41 Globalization, urbanization and decentralization: The experience of Asian Pacifi c cities
42 Local development: A response to the economic crisis. Lessons from Latin America
43 North American perspectives on local and regional development
44 Area defi nition and classifi cation and regional development finance: The European Union and China
Section VII. Refl ections and futures
45 The language of local and regional development
46 The evaluation of local and regional development policy
47 The new regional governance and the hegemony of neoliberalism
48 Local Left strategy now
49 Local and regional development: Refl ections and futures
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