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September 2013, Volume 28, Issue 6
- 614-626 Rural tourism and ancient traditions: Evidence from Italian regions
by Raffaele Lagravinese - 627-642 When it’s gone it’s gone: The politics of the Save Meadowbank Stadium Campaign
by Gavin Reid - 643-662 ‘Ground truths’ and scenarios: Examining and testing regional policy in North West Wales
by Rhydian Fôn James & Peter Midmore & Dennis Thomas
August 2013, Volume 28, Issue 5
- 451-470 The impact of connectivity technology on home-based business venturing: The case of women in the North East of England
by Pooran Wynarczyk & Jayne Graham - 471-487 The evaluation of Business Improvement Districts: Questions and issues from the Scottish experience
by Mhairi Donaghy & Anne Findlay & Leigh Sparks - 488-498 Tax lien sales as local neoliberal governance strategy: The case of Waterbury, Connecticut
by Hilary Botein & C Patrick Heidkamp - 499-511 Industrial closure, regional development and local planning: Multiple narratives of change from the experience of Longbridge, Birmingham
by Stephen Hall - 512-524 Planning for the community? The early experiences of the implementation of Edinburgh City Council’s Community Plan
by Chris McWilliams
June 2013, Volume 28, Issue 4
- 355-357 High-growth firms: More reasons for caution?
by James Derbyshire - 358-368 Sustainable development and climate change: Beyond mitigation and adaptation
by S Harry & M Morad - 369-383 Michael Porter’s cluster theory as a local and regional development tool: The rise and fall of cluster policy in the UK
by Jon Swords - 384-398 The financialisation of urban development: Tax Increment Financing in Newcastle upon Tyne
by Tom Strickland - 399-415 Economic resilience and entrepreneurship: A case study of the Thessaloniki City Region
by Nick Williams & Tim Vorley & Panayiotis H Ketikidis - 416-428 Measuring the low carbon economy at the local level: A hybrid approach
by Paul Bishop & Steven Brand - 429-443 Windfalls, wipeouts, and local economic development: A study of an emerging oil city in West Africa
by Franklin Obeng-Odoom - 444-448 The urban university as good citizen: The American University of Beirut’s Neighborhood Initiative
by Cynthia Myntti
May 2013, Volume 28, Issue 3
- 237-239 Localism: Identifying complexities and ways forward for research and practice
by Sarah Skerratt - 240-256 Localism in Finland: The changing role and current crisis of the Finnish municipal system
by Kjell Andersson & Stefan Sjöblom - 257-274 New directions in economic development: Localist policy discourses and the Localism Act
by Gill Bentley & Lee Pugalis - 275-290 Localism, voluntarism and devolution: Experiences, opportunities and challenges in a changing policy context
by Mike Woolvin & Irene Hardill - 291-303 The moral basis of a forward society: Relations and forms of localism in Italy
by Giorgio Osti - 304-319 Divining the local: Mobility, scale and fragmented development
by Dean B Carson & Andreas Koch - 320-338 Working with communities-of-place: Complexities of empowerment
by Sarah Skerratt & Artur Steiner - 339-349 Localism and the community shop
by Eric Calderwood & Keri Davies - 350-352 Hugh Atkinson, Local Democracy, Civic Engagement and Community. From New Labour to the Big Society
by Deian Hopkin
March 2013, Volume 28, Issue 2
- 139-141 Resurgent African cities?
by Ivan Turok - 142-157 Securing the resurgence of African cities
by Ivan Turok - 158-169 Mining FDI and urban economies in sub-Saharan Africa: Exploring the possible linkages
by Glen Robbins - 170-187 Urban economies, urban livelihoods and natural resource-based economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa: The constraints of a liberalized world economy
by Deborah Potts - 188-202 Urban tourism, economic regeneration and inclusion: Evidence from South Africa
by Christian M Rogerson - 203-217 Climate and environmental change and the potential for greening African cities
by David Simon - 218-230 The Development Complex, rural economy and urban-spatial and economic development in Juba, South Sudan
by Richard Grant & Daniel Thompson - 231-233 Bekker S and Therborn G (eds) Power and Powerlessness: Capital Cities in Africa
by Ivan Turok
February 2013, Volume 28, Issue 1
- 3-8 People-based versus place-based policies: The 2009 World Development Report
by Ivan Turok - 9-16 The return of place in Scottish social policy
by Peter Matthews - 17-34 Social innovation: An exploration of the barriers faced by innovating organizations in the social economy
by Dominic Chalmers - 35-50 Investigating A8 migration using data from the Worker Registration Scheme: Temporal, spatial and sectoral trends
by David McCollum - 51-65 Agglomeration economies in the neighbourhood? Evidence from German cities
by Uwe Neumann & Helmut Geißler & Peter Jakubowski - 66-84 ‘Beyond the golden triangle’: Biotechnology incubation in the East Midlands region of the UK
by David J Smith & Michael Ehret - 85-98 The effectiveness of the microcredit programme in Bangladesh
by M Twyeafur Rahman & Hafiz TA Khan - 99-113 Understanding economic development as a Deleuzian ‘plateau’
by James E Rowe - 114-122 The survival half-life of firms and its effect on economic development
by James Derbyshire - 123-135 Regional disparities in Andhra Pradesh, India
by A Amarender Reddy & MCS Bantilan
December 2012, Volume 27, Issue 8
- 785-787 Women and the local economy
by Ines Newman - 788-795 Growing the core economy: Gender, time and sustainable development
by Anna Coote - 796-803 Deepening disadvantages in housing markets for women
by Lynn Vickery - 804-815 Government policy and women in the labour market: The importance of public sector employment
by Anne E Green - 816-830 Challenges in combining work and care: Evidence from investigating women’s work in Leeds
by Sue Yeandle & Viktoria Joynes - 831-845 Gender balance in the governance of social enterprise
by Fergus Lyon & Anne Laure Humbert - 846-858 Making, contesting and governing the local: Women’s labour and the local state
by Janet Newman - 859-863 Unravelling equality: The combined impact of spending cuts on women
by Mary-Ann Stephenson - 864-871 The Women and Work Commission legacy in the age of austerity
by Rosalie Ward - 872-876 What price localism? The case for government investment in specialist, community-based services by and for women
by Carol Hayden - 877-882 Community food growing and the role of women in the alternative economy in Tower Hamlets
by Kate Metcalf & Julia Minnear & Tabitha Kleinert & Victoria Tedder - 883-884 Irene Hardill and Susan Barnes, Enterprising Care? Unpaid Voluntary Action in the 21st Century
by Anne Green - 884-885 Naomi Eisenstadt, Providing a Sure Start, The Policy Press: Bristol, 2011; 178 pp.: 9781847427298, £21.99 (pbk)
by Ines Newman
November 2012, Volume 27, Issue 7
- 689-691 Low carbon mobility: Opportunities and challenges for local economic development
by Nigel Berkeley & David Jarvis - 692-704 Capturing the economic benefits of a transformative shift to low carbon automobility
by David Jarvis & Nigel Berkeley & Tom Donnelly - 705-721 UK policy and the low carbon vehicle sector
by Jason Begley & Nigel Berkeley - 722-731 The price is right? The limitations of market mechanisms in encouraging low carbon mobility
by John Mikler - 732-748 Low carbon mobility versus private car ownership: Towards a new business vision for the automotive world?
by Dan Coffey & Carole Thornley - 749-763 Converging transport policy, industrial policy and environmental policy: The implications for localities and social equity
by Peter Wells - 764-781 Sustainable travel behaviour and the widespread impacts on the local economy
by Candice C Howarth & Polyvios Polyviou
August 2012, Volume 27, Issue 5-6
- 431-448 Welfare reform and labour market activation
by Andrew Jones - 449-454 Universal Credit: Simplification or personalisation?
by Paul Spicker - 455-464 Universal Credit: Will it work?
by Beth Lakhani - 465-474 Payment by Results: Delivering high quality public services in straitened fiscal times
by Vincent Pattison - 475-479 Welfare reform and the Single Work Programme: A local perspective
by Anthony Woods-Waters - 480-485 Housing in the welfare state: Partitioning places and people
by Alan Murie - 486-493 The geography of stupidity: From where do all the bad ideas come?
by Danny Dorling - 494-501 Active labour market policy and direct job creation in Germany: Achievements, challenges, and pitfalls
by Jörg Sommer & Peer Rosenthal - 502-513 Local needs and national eligibility rules: The City Strategy experience of localisation
by Duncan Adam & Anne Green - 514-528 Debating conditionality for disability benefits recipients and welfare reform: Research evidence from Pathways to Work
by Katharine Weston - 529-540 The sustainable employment policy agenda: What role for employers?
by David McCollum - 541-557 A living wage standard: A case study of the US Virgin Islands
by Zenia Kotval & Zeenat Kotval-K & Patricia Machemer & John Mullin - 558-576 Nordic paths from welfare to workfare: Danish, Swedish and Finnish labour market reforms in comparison
by Johannes Kananen - 577-592 Lone parents working for welfare in New Zealand
by Michael O’Brien - 593-609 Spatial patterns of labour market deprivation in Scotland: Concentration, isolation and persistence
by Alasdair Rae - 610-619 A new perspective on the success of public sector worklessness interventions in the UK’s most deprived areas
by John Holden & Baron Frankal - 620-628 Dutch municipalities and the implementation of social assistance: Making social assistance work
by Marieke Blommesteijn & Geerten Kruis & Roeland van Geuns - 629-636 Labour market activation in Finland in the 1990s: Workfare reforms and labour market flexibilisation
by Sami Outinen - 637-644 A double farewell to a former model? Danish unions and activation policy
by Henning Jørgensen & Michaela Schulze - 645-650 China’s 21st-century welfare reforms
by Jane Duckett - 651-656 Recent policy changes in the Universal Child Benefit in Japan
by Michihiko Tokoro - 657-678 Where next for the welfare state?
by Andrew Jones - 679-682 Melissa Benn, School Wars: The Battle for Britain’s Education
by Deian Hopkin - 682-684 Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class
by Munir Morad - 684-686 Colin Leys and Stewart Player, The Plot against the NHS
by Paul Shipman
June 2012, Volume 27, Issue 4
- 319-325 Natural resource abundance and eminent domain: A case study from Africa
by Franklin Obeng-Odoom - 326-328 High-growth firms: A new policy paradigm or a need for caution?
by James Derbyshire - 329-331 Public policy and high growth firms
by David Walburn - 332-354 A new perspective on local political entrepreneurship: Evidence from Portugal
by Aurora AC Teixeira & Carina Silva - 355-372 Rural resilience through continued learning and innovation
by Jane Glover - 373-387 Working with the homeless: The case of a non-profit organisation in Shanghai
by Heather Xiaoquan Zhang & Jimmy McWhinney - 388-402 Uplifting small towns in post-apartheid South Africa: The experience of the Amathole Regional Economic Development Agency (Aspire)
by James McKibbin & Tony Binns & Etienne Nel - 403-418 Does the local economic performance league table lie? Concentric banding and the Index of Multiple Deprivation 2010
by Michael A Nolan & Michael Reynolds & Stephen Trotter - 419-425 Steffen Mau and Roland Verwiebe (eds) European Societies: Mapping Structure and Change
by Andrew Jones - 426-427 Denis Dillon and Bryan Fanning, Lessons for the Big Society: Planning, Regeneration and the Politics of Community Participation
by Philip Pinch
May 2012, Volume 27, Issue 3
- 227-231 Are we there yet?
by Raj Patel - 232-250 From ‘regionalism’ to ‘localism’: Opportunities and challenges for North East England
by Keith Shaw & Fred Robinson - 251-264 Swimming against the tide: A study of a neighbourhood trying to rediscover its ‘reason for being’ – the case of South Bank, Redcar and Cleveland
by David McGuinness & Paul Greenhalgh & Gill Davidson & Fred Robinson & Paul Braidford - 265-278 Does the UK need a SCORE? US and UK SME advisory services compared
by Ron Botham - 279-296 How accurate are VAT registrations as a measure of entrepreneurship?
by Andrew G Ross & Kenny Crossan & Linda Juleff - 297-314 The promotion of local wellbeing: A primer for policymakers
by Matthew D Rablen - 315-316 Who Needs Migrant Workers? Labour Shortages, Immigration and Public Policy
by Josefina Pérez
March 2012, Volume 27, Issue 2
- 91-94 A sustainable rural?
by Gerard McElwee & Geoff Whittam - 95-102 Sustainable rural development in England: Policy problems and equity consequences
by Nigel Curry - 103-118 Exploring entrepreneurial skills and competencies in farm tourism
by Chris Phelan & Richard Sharpley - 119-135 Does the quality of websites vary by location? A study of urban and rural small firms in Scotland
by John Sanders & Laura Galloway - 136-151 A conceptualisation of the relationship capital of rural small service firms
by David Moyes & Geoffrey Whittam & Paul Ferri - 152-166 Hyper-local news: A glue to hold rural communities together?
by David Baines - 167-182 Can social enterprise contribute to creating sustainable rural communities? Using the lens of structuration theory to analyse the emergence of rural social enterprise
by Artur A Steinerowski & Izabella Steinerowska-Streb - 183-192 The innovation performance of small rural enterprises and cooperatives in Tehran province, Iran
by Seyed Jamal F Hosseini & Gerard McElwee & Shohreh Soltani & David J Smith - 193-208 Working positively with rural estates: The scale and nature of estates and their contribution to the East Midlands of England
by Jason Beedell & Andrew Teanby & Ivan Annibal - 209-222 What factors enable community leadership of renewable energy projects? Lessons from a woodfuel heating initiative
by Jennifer C Rogers & Eunice A Simmons & Ian Convery & Andrew Weatherall
February 2012, Volume 27, Issue 1
- 3-18 Rural transport and social inclusion: The DalesBus Initiative
by Joyce Liddle & Gerard McElwee & John Disney - 19-32 From the ‘feminization of agriculture’ to the ‘ageing of farming populations’: Demographic transition and farming in a central Chinese village
by Yuqin Huang - 33-49 Raising the batting average: Re-orientating regional industrial policy to generate more high growth firms
by Ross Brown & Colin Mason - 50-54 Economic development in the US alters course because of recession
by Catherine S Renault - 55-67 London’s Olympic legacy and the Imagine methodology
by Simon Bell & Judi Farren Bradley - 68-77 Redevelopment of development zones: The smart growth of cities in China
by Wang Xingping & Yuan Xinguo & Zhu Kai - 78-85 Kicking the ladder away: The new generation gap
by Toby Hill - 86-87 Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts, Edgelands: A Journey into England’s True Wilderness
by Bob Jarvis
December 2011, Volume 26, Issue 8
- 625-626 The localism agenda
by Deian Hopkin & Hugh Atkinson - 627-634 The pitfalls and perils of payment by results
by David Boyle - 635-651 ‘You can't play politics with people's jobs and people's services’: Localism and the politics of local government finance
by Stuart Wilks-Heeg - 652-662 The problem of letting go: The ‘Big Society’, accountable governance and ‘the curse of the decentralizing minister’
by Matthew Flinders & David S. Moon - 663-678 Management of community-owned facilities post-acquisition
by Sarah Skerratt & Clare Hall - 679-683 Prospects for local economic development in the north of England under the coalition
by Michael Ward - 684-689 Localism and local government finance
by Mike Curtis - 690-701 Localism, social capital and the ‘Big Society’
by Andy Westwood - 702-714 What is localism, and what implications do different models have for managing the local economy?
by Paul Hildreth - 715-720 Contours and conflicts in scale: Science, knowledge and urban development
by Tim May & Beth Perry - 721-725 The Big Society: The Anatomy of the New Politics
by Deian Hopkin
September 2011, Volume 26, Issue 6-7
- 457-458 Editorial
by Andrew Jones - 459-466 The evolution of place-based policies and the resurgence of geography in the process of economic development
by Enrique Garcilazo - 467-472 Towards a new era for regional development: Investing in leadership
by Andrea Di Anselmo & Lorenzo Lo Cascio - 473-485 Regional economic development policy in Europe: Where next?
by David Walburn & Christian Saublens - 486-499 Whither a Europe of the (English) regions? Reflections on the prospects for the representation of English territorial interests in Europe
by Olivier Sykes & Alexander Lord - 500-516 English regions disbanded: European funding and economic regeneration implications
by Lee Pugalis & Ben Fisher - 517-531 Cohesion policy and regional disparities: The recent experience of Greece
by Manolis Christofakis & Athanasios Papadaskalopoulos - 532-543 State aid 2000–2010: The UK experience
by Dominic Williams & Apostolos Fasianos - 544-561 Merits, problems and paradoxes of regional innovation policies
by Francesco Grillo & Mikel Landabaso - 562-576 Mobility and the smart, green and inclusive Europe
by Ian Smith & Rob Atkinson - 577-581 Regional service scheme: New tools in economic development
by Eeva-Liisa Koivumäki - 582-587 The ‘Employment in the Neighbourhoods’ project: A local economic development experience in Catalonia
by Mateo Hernando & Nemo Remesar - 588-593 Local economies in a globalizing world: The role of European industrial policy
by Stefano Ramelli & Peder Christensen & Ch. Allen - 594-618 The euro crisis
by Andrew Jones - 619-622 Boom and Bust: The Politics and Legacy of Gordon Brown
by N/A
August 2011, Volume 26, Issue 5
- 317-324 China: Development, change and engagement
by David Webster - 325-336 Rural migrants in urban China: Characteristics and challenges to public policy
by Yu Chen - 337-347 Urban regeneration in China: Policy, development, and issues
by Lin Ye - 348-362 From planned to market economy: The rise and fall of the City of Textiles, Xi’an
by Zhiming Cheng - 363-372 From industrial enclaves to prototypes of the modern Chinese city: Development zones in Guangdong
by Christian Wuttke - 373-383 The formation and regeneration of old industrial zones in Nanjing City
by Jianguo Wang & Xingping Wang & Jianhao Zhang & Jiahong Shi - 384-400 The impact of privatization of public housing on housing affordability in Beijing: An assessment using household survey data
by Zan Yang & Songtao Wang - 401-408 Strategies for the economic transformation of a port city: A case study of Ningbo
by Yejun Huang & Weike Bao - 409-422 High speed rail in China and its potential impacts on urban and regional development
by Shuangshuang Tang & Michel Savy & Jean-François Doulet - 423-430 Liverpool at Shanghai: The Expo experience
by Mike Taylor & Jonathan Caswell - 431-438 The big China sell: UK cities need to hitch our supply to their demand to turn genteel decline into spurred growth
by Baron Frankal & Li-Hsia Chan - 439-446 Local solutions as an element in China’s strategy for sustainability?
by Christian Ploberger - 447-449 Book review: Stephen Chiu and Tai-Lok Lui, Hong Kong: Becoming a Chinese Global City; Hong Yu, Economic Development and Inequality in China: The Case of Guangdong
by N/A - 450-453 Book review: Fulong Wu, Chris Webster, Shenjing He and Yuting Liu, Urban Poverty in China; Chris King-Chi Chan, The Challenge of Labour in China: Strikes and the Changing Labour Regime in Global Factories
by N/A
June 2011, Volume 26, Issue 4
- 225-226 Future imperfect? Insights from the challenging and changing context of planning
by Ann Hockey & Munir Morad - 227-231 Using sports infrastructure to deliver economic and social change: Lessons for London beyond 2012
by Larissa E Davies - 232-235 Poetic architectural intentions: A brief assessment of the role of eco-phenomenology in urban design
by M Morad - 236-245 Older people in unfamiliar environments: Assimilating a multi-disciplinary literature to a planning problem
by Martin Spaul & Ann Hockey - 246-259 Environmental parking charging policies: A case study of Winchester
by Graham Wall - 260-268 The regeneration of Liverpool: Connections and disconnections in a ‘joined-up’ environment
by Thomas Ellerton - 269-284 Community governance and local decision making: Paper presented to the ‘Diversity and Convergence: Planning in a World of Change’ Conference
by Tracie McIntyre & Jamie Halsall - 285-293 Delivering infrastructure through spatial planning: The multi-scalar approach in the UK
by Janice Morphet - 294-304 Implementation in regional planning: A West Midlands perspective
by Stefan Preuss - 305-313 Why cities cannot be sustainable: Governance and planning for Istanbul
by Dilek Unalan
May 2011, Volume 26, Issue 3
- 139-144 Anger at reforms to higher education: Misinformed passion or legitimate concern?
by Toby Hill - 145-156 What do business rates measure?
by Dominic Williams - 157-169 A platform for local entrepreneurship: The case of the lighting festival of Frederikshavn
by Lucio Carlos Freire-Gibb & Anne Lorentzen - 170-181 Community ownership of physical assets: Challenges, complexities and implications
by Sarah Skerratt & Clare Hall - 182-196 The emergent vinifera wine industry in North Carolina: A descriptive overview
by Victor Ofori-Boadu & Osei-Agyeman Yeboah & Joyendu Bhadury & Kathryn Dobie & Samuel P Troy & Nicholas C Williamson - 197-202 East London Tech City: Ideas without a strategy?
by Max Nathan - 203-213 Evaluating public art in the North of England: Logic models, frameworks and emerging impact
by David Usher & Ian Strange - 214-220 Employer engagement in schools: The business case
by Anthony Mann & Carol Glover - 221-222 Ferraris for All: In Defence of Economic Progress
by N/A
March 2011, Volume 26, Issue 2
- 75-81 Is there a fresh chance for local authorities to take the lead in local economic development?
by David Walburn - 82-94 Where next for neighbourhood regeneration in England?
by Kevin Broughton & Nigel Berkeley & David Jarvis - 95-107 Regional variations in new firm job creation: The contribution of high growth start-ups
by Ron Botham & Andrew Graves - 108-121 What’s local? Access to fresh food for older people
by Della Madgwick & Neil Ravenscroft - 122-133 The changing structure of charity retailers in Edinburgh’s built environment
by Nicola Livingstone - 134-136 Ha-Joon Chang, 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism. London: Penguin Group, 2010. 304pp. £20.00 hbk. ISBN 9781846143281
by N/A
February 2011, Volume 26, Issue 1
- 3-17 Managing decline in inner city retail centres: From case study to conceptualization
by Paul Whysall - 18-29 Fostering local economic development in urban neighbourhoods: Results of an empirical assessment
by Uwe Neumann & Christoph M Schmidt & Lutz Trettin - 30-42 Tackling barriers to entrepreneurship in a deprived urban neighbourhood
by Nick Williams & Colin C Williams - 43-51 The small is big: Craft in the inner city of Johannesburg
by Morgan Ndlovu - 52-59 Taming the metropolis: Revisiting the prospect of achieving compact sustainable cities
by Anne Vella & Munir Morad - 60-66 Economic development in the City of London: A unique mix of the global and the local
by Paul Sizeland - 67-69 Book Review: Boulevard of Broken Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed and What to Do About it
by N/A
December 2010, Volume 25, Issue 8
- 599-606 Economic Success Requires Effective Industrial Policy
by Glenn Athey - 607-611 No City Left Behind? Place-Based Industrial Policy After the Recession
by Neil Lee - 612-612 Local Economy Editorial Board, 2010
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