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Regional Development Processes

Economic Development Plan (progress and review)

  • Year: 2011
  • Author: Tasmanian Government
  • Publisher: Department of Economic Development, Tourism and the Arts
  • Published Location: Hobart, Tas
  • ISBN: 978-1-921527-13
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Tasmania

Tasmania is a small, beautiful and remote part of the world with unique features and rich natural resources that the world increasingly values. The Economic Development Plan centres on making the most of Tasmania’s assets to secure prosperity and jobs. Report Locationhttp://www.development.tas.gov.au/?a=74065 ....

Economic Gardening - AN ENTREPRENEURIAL APPROACH TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

  • Year: 2012
  • Author: Gibbons, Christian
  • Country: United States
  • State/Region: Colorado

n 1987, the City of Littleton, Colorado pioneered an entrepreneurial alternative to the traditional economic development practice of recruiting industries. This demonstration program, developed in conjunction with the Center for the New West, was called "economic gardening." We have had many communities visit us and inquire about the program ove ....

Economic Well-being in Regional Economic Development

  • Year: 2004
  • Author: Saunders, Caroline; Dalziel, Paul
  • Journal Name: Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, The
  • Journal Number: Vol. 10, No. 3
  • Country: Australia

'Economic well-being' is appearing as the high-level goal of regional economic development and other legislation around the world, including the Local Government Act 2002 in New Zealand. This term is, however, rarely if ever defined. The purpose of this paper is to explore the economic literature to explore how the term can be inte ....

Energy for the Regions - Provision of Natural Gas to Murray River Communities

  • Year: 2012
  • Author: GHD
  • Publisher: Regional Development Victoria
  • Published Location: Melbourne, Victoria
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Victoria

This project is the first step in determining the feasibility of providing natural gas to Murray River communities. It provides a 'base case assessment', using existing connection points to determine costs and revenue. Its aim is to better understand the project economics and develop a business case. It does not consider alternative technical so ....

England and the 'New Regionalism'

  • Year: 2000
  • Author: Tomaney, John; Ward, Neil
  • Journal Name: Regional Studies
  • Journal Number: Vol.34, No.5
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • State/Region: England

This article investigates recent claims concerining the 'new regionalism' - that is, the 're-emergence' of the region and a unit of economic analysis and the territorial sphere most suited to the interaction of political, social and economic progress in the era of 'globalization'.  It is also borne out of an interest in the changing pattern ....

Enterprise zones and regional development

  • Year: 2001
  • Author: Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
  • Journal Name: ACCI Review
  • Journal Number: 77
  • Country: Australia

The concept of providing targeted assistance to attract investment to regional areas is not new.Governments at all levels have used, and continue to use, a range of financial and other measuresto do just that. However, a recent proposal to establish enterprise zones goes much further.Preferential policies for economically distressed areas to main ....

Equine Industry Scoping Report

  • Year: 2013
  • Publisher: RDA Far South Coast
  • Published Location: Nowra, NSW

The Far South Coast region of NSW, covering the Local Government Areas of Shoalhaven, Eurobodalla and Bega Valley, hosts a large number of enterprises and activities associated with the professional and recreational equine sectors. The region is home to a growing range of equine therapists and professional practitioners in fields such as veterina ....

Evaluating Culture and Regional Economies

  • Year: 2005
  • Author: Hill, Stephen; McGovern, Mark
  • Journal Name: Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, The
  • Journal Number: Vol. 11, No. 1
  • Country: Australia

Culture is in fashion. Creative, innovative, entrepreneurial and other affirmative cultures are the aspirational goals of regions and their developers. Culture, and an espoused need for cultural change, typify regions as diverse as Queensland sugar, the Middle East, and Wales. Culture as a stimulating and progressing environment ca ....

Evolutionary Perspectives on Rural Australia

  • Year: 2011
  • Author: MATTHEW TONTS, NEIL ARGENT, PAUL PLUMMER
  • Journal Name: Geographical Research
  • Journal Number: 50.3
  • Publisher: Wiley Online Library
  • ISBN: 1745-5871
  • Country: Australia

An enduring concern within Australian rural geography has been to understand the nature and implications of change. Much of the intellectual effort has been focused on interpreting how rural economies, populations, social institutions, cultures, and land uses have been transformed through processes operating across a range of spatial and temporal ....

Far West NSW and Broken Hill: Digital Economy Strategy

  • Year: 2011
  • Publisher: Symphony3, RDA Far West NSW, Broken Hill City Council
  • Published Location: Broken Hill, NSW
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: New South Wales

The purpose of this digital economy strategy is to provide a guiding document for the Far West NSW region to maximise use of high speed broadband and to enable the community to embrace the future digital economy with confidence. The document outlines our overall approach, followed by sections outlining how high speed broadband will benefit the ....

Far West Regional Action Plan

  • Year: 2012
  • Author: NSW Government, Department of Premier and Cabinet
  • Publisher: New South Wales Government
  • Published Location: Sydney, NSW
  • ISBN: 978-0-7313-5435-5
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: New South Wales

The NSW Government is fulfilling a new agenda to deliver integrated strategic planning for land use, transport and infrastructure investment, backed up by rigorous financial management and is committed to partnering with communities, including aboriginal communities to improve social and economic outcomes. The long term strategies will align to N ....

Fault Lines Exposed: Advantage and Disadvantage across Australia's Settlement System

  • Year: 2005
  • Author: Baum, Scott; O'Connor, Kevin; Stimson, Robert
  • Publisher: Monash University ePress
  • Published Location: Clayton, Victoria
  • ISBN: 9780975747551
  • Country: Australia

Fault Lines Exposed intends to understand inequality across Australian cities and towns. Social and economic change in Australia has resulted in the emergence of disparities in advantage and disadvantage between metropolitan communities and regional localities, towns and cities. In 1999 the book Community Opportunity and Vulnerability (Baum et al ....

Findings from a review of regional NRM plans

  • Year: 2005
  • Editors: McDonald G, Taylor B, and Robinson C.
  • Journal Name: Findings from a review of regional NRM plans
  • Publisher: Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Savannas
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Queensland

This paper reviews the content of non-statutory regional natural resource management (NRM) plans from several Queensland regions in terms of their consideration of the economic viability of natural resource dependant enterprises and industries, the plans consideration of the region's ability of regions to respond positively to exte ....

Fly-In-Fly-Out Hub Community Impact Study 2013

  • Year: 2013
  • Publisher: Wide Bay Burnett RDA
  • Published Location: Brisbane Qld
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Queensland

The Resource Sector Opportunity Study 2011 established that WBB, with disproportionate unemployment, socio-economic disadvantage and population ageing, has to date not shared equally in Queensland’s recent mining prosperity. Harnessing the resource sector’s skilled and well-paid human capital by accommodating fly-in fly-out (FIFO) and drive-i ....

Fly-in/Fly-out: Implications for Community Sustainability

  • Year: 2010
  • Author: Keith Storey
  • Journal Name: Sustainability
  • Journal Number: 2.5
  • Country: Australia, North America

“Fly-in/fly-out” is a form of work organization that has become the standard model for new mining, petroleum and other types of resource development in remote areas. In many places this “no town” model has replaced that of the “new town.” The work system has both beneficial and adverse implications for the sustainability of both exist ....

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