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Pilbara Prospects 2020: Developments and Challenges for the Region - See more at: http://www.futuredirections.org.au/publications/northern-australia/31-pilbara-prospects-2020-developments-and-challenges-for-the-region.html#sthash.jCJ2qVlh.dpuf

  • Year: 2011
  • Author: Liam McHugh
  • Publisher: Future Directions International Pty Ltd
  • ISBN: 978-0-9757634-7-6
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Pilbara, Western Australia

The Pilbara Cities vision represents a unique and ambitious project. Government and industry have demonstrated a dedication to the development of the region with significant financial and political outlays. Bolstered by the State Government’s Royalties for Regions and resource developments, the economic and demographic profile of the Pilbara to ....

PIRSA Regional Impact Assessment Statements

  • Year: Various
  • Publisher: Department of Primary Industries and Regions South Australia
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: South Australia

As part of a broader commitment to ensure rural and regional issues are appropriately considered in government decision-making, the State Government created the Regional Impact Assessment Statements Policy. The policy requires South Australian government agencies to: Promote an inclusive approach to community consultation and communication U ....

PLACE-BASED POLICIES FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT - LAKE BALATON, HUNGARY (CASE STUDY)

  • Year: 2005
  • Author: OECD
  • Publisher: Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
  • Published Location: Paris, France
  • Country: Hungary
  • State/Region: Balaton

The following case study on the Lake Balaton region in Hungary is organised in four parts:  The context is presented in part one with developments on regionalisation in Hungary, a description of the specific governance features prevailing in the Lake Balaton region and a profile of rural areas as compared to others in the country. ....

PLACE-BASED POLICIES FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT - PROVINCES OF AREZZO AND GROSSETO, TUSCANY, ITAY (CASE STUDY)

  • Year: 2005
  • Author: Crosta, Nicola
  • Editors: Pezzini, Mario
  • Publisher: Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
  • Published Location: Paris, France
  • Country: Italy
  • State/Region: Tuscany

1. The work that the OECD Rural Working Party has carried out in the last years has converged towards acceptance that sectoral approaches to rural areas have not given the expected results and that there is a need for more effective, place-based policies which can better capture the diverse challenges and potential of rural areas. ....

PLACED-BASED POLICIES FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT - BASQUE COUNTRY, SPAIN (CASE STUDY)

  • Year: 2004
  • Author: OECD
  • Publisher: Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
  • Published Location: Paris, France
  • Country: Spain
  • State/Region: Basque Country

The following case study on the Basque Country is organised in four parts: The context is presented in part one with developments on regionalisation and autonomy in Spain, a description of the specific governance features prevailing in the Basque Country and a profile of the rural areas within it. Part two is constituted by an analysis ....

PLACED-BASED POLICIES FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT - THE MICRO-REGIONS STRATEGY, MEXICO (CASE STUDY)

  • Year: 2003
  • Author: Crosta, Nicola
  • Editors: Pezzini, Mario
  • Publisher: Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
  • Published Location: Paris, France
  • Country: Mexico

The work that the OECD Rural Working Party has carried out in the last years has converged towards the acceptance that traditional top-down approaches and sectoral subsidies to rural areas have not given the expected results and that there is a need for place-based policies which can capture the diversity of rural areas and respond ....

Planning for climate change across borders: insights from the Gold Coast (QLD) – Tweed (NSW) region

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: L. Singh-Peterson, S. Serrao-Neumann, F. Crick & I. Sporne
  • Journal Name: Australian Planner
  • Journal Number: 50.2
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
  • Published Location: United Kingdom
  • ISBN: 0729-3682
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Queensland, New South Wales

Climate change impacts challenge artificially imposed administrative boundaries and expose the need for improved collaboration across borders. However, jurisdictional boundaries represent one of the major obstacles to an integrated response to climate change impacts. Overcoming this barrier is particularly challenging in cases requiring collabora ....

Planning in Rurbania: rural policy and the planning system in Norway

  • Year: 2012
  • Author: Harvold, Kjell; Nordahl, Berit
  • Journal Name: The Town Planning Review
  • Journal Number: Vol.83, No.2
  • Publisher: Liverpool University Press
  • Published Location: Liverpool, United Kingdom
  • Country: Norway

In most European countries planning in rural areas has largely been restricted to protecting the countryside and agricultural land from built development. Rural planning has often been driven by programmes to foster food production, and there seems to be little willingness to change the traditional 'productivist' agricultural approach. ....

Policies for the future of regional Australia

  • Year: 2004
  • Author: Collits P.
  • Journal Name: European Planning Studies
  • Journal Number: Vol.12, No.1
  • Country: Australia

...the rift between country and city is wider than at any time in the last 150 years. The rift is so wide that the return of rural and outback prosperity – if by chance it does return – will not quickly narrow the gap. For country grievances are not simply economic: the grievances are social and cultural. (Blainey, 2001) Recently I was talki ....

Political Decentralization, Subnational Political Capital, and Intergovernmental Transfers in Korea

  • Year: 2012
  • Author: Jungbu Kim
  • Journal Name: American Review of Public Administration
  • Journal Number: 43(1)
  • ISBN: 1552-3357
  • Country: Republic of Korea

Faced with ever increasing pressures for better performance and financial bottom line, governments around the world are devolving more responsibilities to subnational governments. Especially in developing countries, this trend has coupled with increased demands for greater democracy and disaffection with the services provided by the central gover ....

Political economy, social movements and alternative development in El Salvador 1975- -2005

  • Year: 2012
  • Author: Kervyn de Lettenhove, Michel
  • Journal Name: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
  • Publisher: New School University
  • Published Location: United States -- New York
  • ISBN: 9781267389831
  • Country: El Salvador

This dissertation discusses the relationship between the evolution of the political economy, the movements for social changeand attempts at alternative development in El Salvador. Since the 1970s, that country has experienced an exceptionally rich history of social and revolutionary movements, and interesting attempts to build alternative an ....

Primary health care in rural and remote Australia: achieving equity of access and outcomes through national reform

  • Year: 2009
  • Author: John Humphreys & John Wakerman
  • Publisher: National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission
  • Country: Australia

Despite many rural and remote initiatives over recent years, the health needs of many Australian communities are still not adequately met. Residents of rural and remote communities continue to show poorer health outcomes than residents in metropolitan centres, while the health of Indigenous communities remains unacceptable. Many rural and remote ....

Progress in Australian Regions: Yearbook 2014

  • Year: 2014
  • Author: Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development
  • Country: Australia

Australia is made up of diverse regions, from busy interconnected urban areas to isolated remote communities. While the majority of Australians live in cities, a significant proportion of our population is also spread across large and often remote areas. The regions of Australia are progressing at different rates. Examining the regional trends a ....

Quantifying entrepreneurship and its impact on local economic performance: A spatial assessment in rural Switzerland

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Daniel Baumgartner, Tobias Schulz & Irmi Seidl
  • Journal Name: Entrepreneurship & Regional Development: An International Journal
  • Journal Number: 25.3-4
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
  • Published Location: United Kingdom
  • ISBN: 0898-5626
  • Country: Switzerland

Regional and rural development policies in Europe increasingly emphasize entrepreneurship to mobilize the endogenous economic potential of rural territories. This study develops a concept to quantify entrepreneurship as place-dependent local potential to examine its impact on the local economic performance of rural territories in Switzerland. The ....

Rates and Taxes: A Fair Share for Responsible Local Government

  • Year: 2003
  • Editors: Hawker, David
  • Publisher: The Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • Country: Australia

This major Inquiry into Local Government and Cost Shifting has addressed not only the matter of cost shifting but also revealed the underlying issues relating to governance arrangements between the three spheres of government.  I am delighted that this report is a unanimous report of the House of Representatives Economics, Fi ....

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