| Description |
1 online resource (141 p.) |
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Regional Studies Policy Impact Bks |
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Regional Studies Policy Impact Bks
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| Contents |
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- About the authors -- Acknowledgements -- Preamble -- Executive summary and key recommendations -- Chapter 1: Introduction: The new discourse of "left behind places" -- 1.1: The Re-emergence and (Re)discovery of "left behind places" -- 1.2: "Left Behind places" as sites of discontent -- 1.3: What are "left behind places"? -- 1.4: "Levelling up": Moving beyond slogans -- Chapter 2: Becoming "left behind": How places have grown apart -- 2.1: Situating the "left behind" problem |
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2.2: The "great turnaround": From convergence to divergence -- 2.3: Growing apart: macro-geographies of "falling behind" -- 2.4: From broad regions to local places: The complexity of the "left behind" landscape -- 2.5: The productivity puzzle and "left behind places" -- 2.6: Conclusions: The scale and geographies of the "left behind" problem -- Chapter 3: Why places have fallen behind: The geographically uneven effects of economic transformation -- 3.1: Evolving geographies of economic transformation -- 3.2: Post-industrial spaces of growth and decline -- 3.3: The changing location of employment |
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3.4: The rise of knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) -- 3.5: A public sector counter-weight? -- 3.6: A combined urban and regional problem -- 3.7: Cumulative processes and vicious circles -- 3.8: Conclusions: Understanding how places have become "left behind" -- Chapter 4: Economic shocks and the differential resilience of places -- 4.1: Local economic development as a shock-prone process -- 4.2: The notion of local economic resilience -- 4.3: Economic resilience across UK localities -- 4.4: The emerging implications of brexit and the pandemic shocks |
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4.5: Conclusions: Resilience and recovery -- Chapter 5: Learning from past policies for "levelling up" and "left behind places" in the UK -- 5.1: Learning from the past -- 5.2: Distinguishing spatial policies -- 5.3: Nine decades of the UK spatial policy -- 5.4: The limitations and weaknesses of past policies -- 5.5: Conclusions: Lessons from the past -- Chapter 6: Institutions and policies for "levelling up" and "left behind places" -- 6.1: Key findings and their policy implications -- 6.2: Grasping the transformative moment for local, regional and urban development policy |
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6.3: Establishing a clear and binding national mission for "levelling up" -- 6.4: Realizing the potential of place in policymaking -- 6.5: Decentralizing towards a multilevel federal polity in the UK -- 6.6: Strengthening subnational funding and financing -- 6.7: Embedding geography in the national state and policy machinery -- 6.8: Improving subnational strategic research, intelligence, monitoring and evaluation capacity -- 6.9: Conclusions |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Economic policy.
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Economic policy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gardiner, Ben
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Pike, Andy
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Sunley, Peter
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Tyler, Peter
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| ISBN |
9781000592900 |
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1000592901 |
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9781032244341 |
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1032244348 |
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