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Governance and effectiveness in regional planning: an analysis of North American, European, and Australasian practice
No full textOver the past several years, there has been resurgent interest in regional planning in North America, Europe and Australasia. Spurred by issues such as metropolitan growth, transportation infrastructure, environmental management and economic development, many states and metropolitan regions are undertaking new planning initiatives. These regional efforts have also raised significant question about governance structures, accountability and measures of effectiveness.n this paper, the authors conducted an international review of ten case studies from the United States, Canada, England, Belgium, New Zealand and Australia to explore several critical questions. Using qualitative data template, the research team reviewed plans, documents, web sites and published literature to address three questions. First, what are the governance arrangements for delivering regional planning? Second, what are the mechanisms linking regional plans with state plans (when relevant) and local plans? Third, what means and mechanisms do these regional plans use to evaluate and measure effectiveness?\ud
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The case study analysis revealed several common themes. First, there is an increasing focus on goverance at the regional level, which is being driven by a range of trends, including regional spatial development initiatives in Europe, regional transportation issues in the US, and the growth of metropolitan regions generally. However, there is considerable variation in how regional governance arrangements are being played out. Similarly, there is a range of processes being used at the regional level to guide planning that range from broad ranging (thick) processes to narrow and limited (thin) approaches. Finally, evaluation and monitoring of regional planning efforts are compiling data on inputs, processes, outputs and outcomes. Although there is increased attention being paid to indicators and monitoring, most of it falls into outcome evaluations such as Agenda 21 or sustainability reporting.\ud
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Based on our review we suggest there is a need for increased attention on input, process and output indicators and clearer linkages of these indicators in monitoring and evaluation frameworks. The focus on outcome indicators, such as sustainability indicators, creates feedback systems that are too long-term and remote for effective monitoring and feedback. Although we found some examples of where these kinds of monitoring frameworks are linked into a system of governance, there is a need for clearer conceptual development for both theory and practice
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European local authorities’ financial resilience in the face of austerity: a comparison across Austria, Italy and England
No full textEuropean local authorities have been particularly stricken by the current context of decline and cutback management, and represent an ideal place where to study how governments respond to shocks affecting their financial conditions and management. Along these lines, this paper adopt the perspective of financial resilience for looking at the current context of austerity, and related responses, by shedding new lights on the role of internal capacities and conditions in influencing such responses and, ultimately, performance. Through a multiple case study analysis based on 12 European local authorities in Austria, Italy and England, the paper identifies the main shocks perceived by local management, the related short-term and long-term responses, highlighting the dynamics of financial vulnerabilty, awareness, anticipatory capacity, flexibility and recovery ability (ie, financial resilience) in its interaction with the external context and shocks. From the analysis, four patterns of resilience emerge: pro-active resilience, adaptive resilience, passive/fatalist resilience, complacent resilience
Towards future territorial governance
No full textThe book provides a comprehensive framework for analysing, comparing and promoting territorial governance in policy relevant research. It reveals in-depth considerations of the emergence, state-of-the art and evolution of the concept of territorial governance. The conclusions summed up in this final chapter are three-proged. First, we discuss the prospects for territorial governance at various administrative levels, macro-regional, national, regional and local, in Europe as a whole. Second, we draw some conclusions about how a territorial governance approach can be employed generally in Northern Europe, Southern Europe, Central and Eastern Europe and in the UK and the Republic of Ireland. Finally the chapter ends with some ideas about the future prospects for territorial governance researc
The Promise of Democracy? Civic Enterprise, Localism and the Transformation of Democratic Capitalism
No full textThis chapter describes what people believe to be a new generation of social economy initiatives. It presents that the civic enterprises contain considerable economic and democratic potential. The chapter focuses on localism means in practice the acceptance of the increasing, place-based inequality of income and life chances that is one of the characteristics of the global, neoliberal economic order. The social economy and civic enterprise are responses to particular economic-social-democratic constellations. The transformation of post-war democratic capitalism created large groups of citizens who were excluded from both the welfare state as well as the newer forms of private capitalism. In civic enterprise informality and associative democracy come together to form a potentially powerful alternative to the currently toxic combination of the administrative state, production systems that are dominated by giant, transnational firms and precarious labour contracts, and the neoliberal discursive hegemony that pervades and sustains this arrangement.</p
Reinventing planning and planners: Ideological decontestations and rhetorical appeals
No full textThis article contributes to the debate about ideologically motivated planning reforms. It aims to advance the debate by exploring how change is legitimised through forms of rhetorical persuasion. It shows how political ideologies become embedded in planning policies and practices through strategies of legitimation aimed at justifying specific ideas, beliefs and values as self-evident and inevitable. These legitimation strategies rely on distinctive rhetorical appeals to steer planning discourses, policies and institutions. By using short illustrative examples of ‘ideology in action’ from Britain, Denmark and the Netherlands, the article shows that various combinations of rhetorical appeals to logos, ethos, pathos and doxa (logic, character, emotion and identity) are often simultaneously at work to naturalise contested planning reforms.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Spatial Planning and Strateg
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