IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/sae/envirc/v19y2001i1p135-155.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Community Economic Development in Urban and Regional Regeneration: Unfolding Potential or Justifiable Scepticism?

Author

Listed:
  • Paul Lawless

    (The Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research, Sheffield Hallam University, City Campus, Howard Street, Sheffield S1 1WB, England)

Abstract

In this paper I explore the scale of community economic development (CED) and the barriers impacting upon its evolution within an English region—Yorkshire and The Humber. CED has been widely perceived by a range of policymakers as one mechanism through which to moderate the scale of economic decline in more disadvantaged localities. A number of funding sources, and in particular European Structural Funds, have increasingly allocated resources to creating and sustaining CED projects. But evidence from this region points to a very limited population of community businesses which undertake trading activities. Moreover, the sector is bedevilled by a series of constraints including those revolving around finance and partnership working. A number of policy developments could enhance the status and sustainability of CED projects, including a more structured approach towards the funding and operation of intermediary agencies. Even then, CED is likely to prove only a marginal player in economic reconversion. The scale of market failure in ‘CED localities’ points to the need for a more interventionist and collective approach to regeneration.

Suggested Citation

  • Paul Lawless, 2001. "Community Economic Development in Urban and Regional Regeneration: Unfolding Potential or Justifiable Scepticism?," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 19(1), pages 135-155, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envirc:v:19:y:2001:i:1:p:135-155
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://epc.sagepub.com/content/19/1/135.abstract
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sae:envirc:v:19:y:2001:i:1:p:135-155. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: SAGE Publications (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.