This text explores the processes which have led to an increase in local economic initiatives and policies supporting local-level development over the last decade. Through a critical analysis of past conceptualizations of local government, a theoretical approach is elaborated which interrelates local agency, locality and restructuring issues. The approach is developed in a Southern European context, with specific reference to Portugal. Analysis of the growth of local economic activity in Portugal and in-depth examination of two distinctive localities, permits the identification of both potentialities and constraints for local economic policy. The book concludes by arguing for a wider conception of local development; one which is not narrowly focused on economic factors.
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
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Höhe: 159 mm
Breite: 222 mm
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978-1-85628-484-4 (9781856284844)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Between utopia and reality?; agency, locality and restructuring; Portugal in transition; Portuguese local gavernment and local economic development; municipa; intervention in an older industrial locality; the case of Castanheira de Pera; local economic development in a marginal rural locality; the Serra do Montemuro; conclusions.
