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Regional Development Processes

A regional economy: a case study of Tasmania

  • Year: 2008
  • Author: BITRE
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Tasmania

This study provides an analytical investigation of the challenges facing regional Australia. BITRE's study takes a multifaceted and holistic approach. The underlying principle is that economies do not work in isolation and a complex mix of interacting drivers affects a region's economic performance. Tasmania's economic performance has experienced ....

A STUDY OF POPULATION CHANGE VIA CLUSTERING OF AUSTRALIAN REGIONAL AREAS: AN OPTIMISATION APPROACH

  • Author: Karim Mardaneh
  • Journal Name: Australasian Journal of Regional Studies
  • Journal Number: 1.2
  • Country: Australia

Grouping regional towns and cities in Australia according to economic functions could improve understanding of the importance of economic factors in determining growth. Several researchers have used clustering techniques to examine the growth and characteristics of regional cities in Australia. The current study extends clustering methodologies b ....

A Tale of Two Regionalisms: Improving the Measurement of Regionalism in Australia and Beyond

  • Year: 2014
  • Author: A. J. Browna & Jacob Deem
  • Journal Name: Regional Studies
  • Country: Australia

Studies of regional identification are integral to the role of regionalism in political development, but how does one study regionalism when subnational political scales and regional political culture may be out of alignment? This question is tackled using Australia, a federation theorized as having possibly hit a regionalization 'ceiling effect' ....

ACHIEVING REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT: A PATHWAY TO PRODUCTIVITY

  • Year: 2011
  • Publisher: Eidos Institute
  • Country: Australia

The issue of regional development is continuing to retain its position as a dominant feature of the current Australian political agenda. Economic, environmental and social challenges continue to present a diverse range of challenges which are in dire need of a coordinated approach from regional universities, industry and government within the cur ....

Adaptive regions, deliberative power spaces and the sustainable development platform method

  • Year: 2012
  • Author: Campbell-Ellis, Matthew
  • Journal Name: Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, The
  • Journal Number: Vol. 18, No. 1
  • Country: Australia

Neo-liberal ideologies continue to pervade the regional sciences and Australian regional and economic development policy. But is neo-liberalism still our sharpest tool for creating adaptive regions in this postglobalised age of the 'me' individual? A paradigm shift is needed - one that takes us beyond neo-liberalism and social capi ....

Adelaide Hills Fleurieu and Kangaroo Island Regional Roadmap 2013-2016: Growing a healthy, resilient, well connected and prosperous region

  • Year: 2013
  • Publisher: Regional Development Australia
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: South Australia

The roadmap focuses on economic development that adds value to the social and environmental capital of local communities. The measure for success in the roadmap is the maintenance of sustainable communities as defined by the Commonwealth Government's Sustainable Australia: Sustainable Communities Strategy. The development of infrastructure plays ....

Aligned and integrated delivery of services to regional Western Australia

  • Year: 2013
  • Published Location: Department of Planning, Department of Local Government and Communities, Department of Regional Development
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Western Australia

The Western Australian economy continues to be the strongest in Australia. Significant opportunities are available for Western Australia to prosper from growth through its diversified economy, mainly driven by its mineral resources and agricultural commodities. There is also potential to further develop these and other industries. To maximise We ....

An analysis diversification strategies in regional Queensland using a two-region, portfolio selection model

  • Year: 2011
  • Author: Trendle, Bernard
  • Journal Name: Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, The
  • Journal Number: Vol. 17, No. 2
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Queensland

This paper presents results from the application of a portfolio selection model to Queensland data. The model presented here comprises two-regions, being Brisbane-Moreton and the Rest of Queensland. The reason for this choice of regional disaggregation rests on the recent policy discussion in Queensland, where concerns about conges ....

Announcement of Funding Awards for the Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grant Program for Fiscal Year 2011

  • Year: 2012
  • Journal Name: Housing & Urban Development Department Documents & Publications
  • Publisher: Federal Information & News Dispatch, Inc.
  • Published Location: Lanham, United States
  • Country: United States

The Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grant Program (Program) supports metropolitan and multijurisdictional planning efforts that integrate housing, land use, economic and workforce development, transportation, and infrastructure investments in a manner that empowers jurisdictions to consider the interdependent challenges of: (1 ....

Anthropological Theory and Government Policy in Australia's Northern Territory: The Hegemony of the "Mainstream"

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Morphy, Frances; Morphy, Howard
  • Journal Name: American Anthropologist
  • Journal Number: 115.2
  • Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
  • ISBN: 00027294
  • Country: Australia

In this article, we set up a dialogue between two theoretical frameworks for understanding the developing relationships between indigenous Australians and the encapsulating Australian society. We argue that the concept of "the intercultural" de-emphasizes the agency of Aboriginal people and the durability of their social relations and value orien ....

Applying landscape science to natural resource management

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: GM Robinson, D Carson
  • Journal Name: Ecology and Society
  • Journal Number: 18:1
  • Publisher: Resilience Alliance
  • ISBN: 1708-3087
  • Country: Australia

This is the introduction to the Ecology and Society special feature on “Applying Landscape Science to Natural Resource Management”. Primarily drawing upon examples from Australia, the nine papers in the feature illustrate how landscape science seeks to integrate information from diverse sources to generate management solutions for implementat ....

Assessing a Region's Economic Level Using the Regional Economic Development Risk Indicator

  • Year: 2012
  • Author: MYŠKOVÁ, R.
  • Journal Name: Recent Advances in Energy, Environment and Economic Development
  • Publisher: WSEAS Press
  • Published Location: Athens
  • ISBN: 978-1-61804-139-5
  • Country: Czech Republic
  • State/Region: Hradec Kralove

Assessing the differences between regions within a single country is important not only from the macro-economic perspective, but also in the light of entrepreneurial activities being implemented or intended in a region. Managerial decisions as to whether conditions suit a particular business activity are based on assessments of corporate resource ....

Attracting and retaining skilled and professional staff in remote locations

  • Year: 2007
  • Author: McKenzie, F. H.
  • Journal Name: DKCRC Report 21
  • Publisher: Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre
  • Published Location: Alice Springs, Northern Territory
  • ISBN: 1 74158 051 X
  • Country: Australia

Attracting and retaining skilled and professional staff is a problem not limited to remote, or even rural and regional locations in Australia. There is strong evidence to suggest that it is increasingly a global problem and organisations throughout the world are seeking innovative strategies to attract and develop new talent and develop other str ....

Australia's Regional Centres: Are they part of the nation's network of cities or only when it matters politically?

  • Year: 2011
  • Author: Trevor Budge, Mark Chesterfield
  • Journal Name: State of Australia's Cities Conference
  • Published Location: Melbourne
  • Country: Australia

This paper discusses the periodic emergence of regional Australia as a focus of policy and action, the development of a network of regional centres in Australia, the difficulties and shortcomings in confining a national urban policy to only the very large cities and how regional policy and an urban policy agenda relates to Australia’s ‘non-ur ....

Australian Rural Development: Multiple Problems, Bespoke Solutions, the Abdication of Central Governments, and the Ghost of Friedrich Nietzsche

  • Year: 2009
  • Author: Sorensen, Tony
  • Journal Name: Sustaining Regions
  • Journal Number: Vol. 7, No. 1
  • Country: Australia

The numerous political, economic, environmental and other problems that surround the regional development of the rural areas of Australia are discussed. The various measures that can be taken or are being taken to overcome these barriers are also analyzed. Report Locationhttp://www.anzrsai.org/system/files/f8/f9/f48/f49/o273//SRO11-19 ....

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