Regional Planning category: 486 books
Plan-making for Sustainability
The New Zealand Experience
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Around the introduction of Agenda 21 at Rio in 1991, some countries like the Netherlands and New Zealand were already leading the way with quite innovative approaches to environmental planning. Focusing on the New Zealand government's innovations in sustainable and environmental planning, particularly...
Discovering American Regionalism
An Introduction to Regional Intergovernmental Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
Regions are difficult to govern – coordinating policies across local jurisdictional boundaries in the absence of a formal regional government gives rise to enormous challenges. Yet some degree of coordination is almost always essential for local governments to effectively fulfill their responsibilities...
Regional Development
Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
From domestic to international settings, aid and assistance to less-developed areas has recently been bolstered by a boom in technological advances and new research. Regional Development: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications presents a vital compendium of research detailing the latest case...
Korea in the New Asia
East Asian Integration and the China Factor
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2007
Since the late 1970s a number of regional developments have impacted upon South Korea’s political and economic standing in Asia. China’s spectacular growth and closer integration with its neighbouring economies, along with a tendency toward more assertive political and diplomatic activity, have...
Regional Energy Initiatives
MedReg and the Energy Community
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
This book focuses on the two intra-regional initiatives created for the development and integration of energy markets: the Energy Community and MedReg.
The Energy Community and MedReg, apart from their common strategic role in providing a much-needed stable regulatory environment for energy...
Public Universities and Regional Growth
Insights from the University of California
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Public Universities and Regional Growth examines evolutions in research and innovation at six University of California campuses. Each chapter presents a deep, historical analysis that traces the dynamic interaction between particular campuses and regional firms in industries that range from biotechnology,...
Comparative Metropolitan Policy
Governing Beyond Local Boundaries in the Imagined Metropolis
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
How are metropolitan regions governed? What makes some regions more effective than others in managing policies that cross local jurisdictional boundaries? Political coordination among municipal governments is necessary to attract investment, rapid and efficient public transit systems, and to sustain...
Regional and Subregional Program Links
Mapping the Links Between ASEAN and the GMS, BIMP-EAGA, and IMT-GT
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
This report presents an assessment of the links among the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the three subregional programs (Greater Mekong Subregion [GMS], Brunei Darussalam–Indonesia–Malaysia–Philippines East ASEAN Growth Area [BIMP-EAGA], Indonesia–Malaysia–Thailand Growth...
The Business Improvement District Movement
Contributions to Public Administration & Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
This comprehensive book covers the theory and practice of Business Improvement Districts or BIDs – partnerships between local communities and governments established to revitalize neighborhoods and catalyze economic development in a region. In this book, author Seth Grossman demonstrates the ways...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
The Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Economic Cooperation Program will begin its third decade in 2012. Since its inception, the program has achieved noteworthy successes in fostering cooperation in a region that, at the commencement of the program, was emerging from a period of prolonged conflict. The...
New Regionalism and the European Union
Dialogues, Comparisons and New Research Directions
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
The debates on regionalism have been polarized between European Union (EU) scholars and non-EU scholars, with the assumption being that regionalism within the EU and other regions of the world are quite distinct, with little to be learnt from dialogue with each other. This book challenges such assumptions...
Imagined Regional Communities
Integration and Sovereignty in the Global South
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
Imagined Regional Communities provides an original approach to thinking about the processes of regional integration. Focusing mostly on communities in Africa, Asia and Latin America, it develops detailed case studies based on archives, interviews and critical readings of existing texts. These case-studies...
Toward Optimal Provision of Regional Public Goods in Asia and the Pacific
Conference Highlights
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
This publication presents highlights of a conference that gathered leading academics, policymakers, and international organizations to discuss the theory, practice, and policy considerations of regional public goods. Jointly organized by the Asian Development Bank Economic Research and Regional Cooperation...
Japan's Security Policy and the ASEAN Regional Forum
The Search for Multilateral Security in the Asia-Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007
Based on primary resources, including documents and extensive interviews with Japanese policy makers, this book provides a comprehensive and detailed empirical analysis of Japan’s involvement in Asia-Pacific security multilateralism after the end of the Cold War with special reference to the ARF....