Download or read book Defining Regions for Building Economic Development Capacity in Newfoundland and Labrador written by David Freshwater and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report synthesizes the results of a multi-year effort to identify a more effective way of organizing economic development efforts in Newfoundland and Labrador. This synthesis collects the main ideas and results from the various interim reports and tasks conducted over the life of the project. More detailed information is available from these publications, including references to primary and secondary sources, available from Municipalities Newfoundland and Labrador (MNL). One main idea underlying the work is a belief that most individual communities in the province are too small by themselves to be viable economic units; therefore, to obtain the critical mass needed to expand economic opportunity there has to be some form of aggregation of local resources. This is a well understood situation. The province has for decades identified a number of alternative development regions that were meant to provide a structure for multi-community collaborations. But, the periodic redrawing of the boundaries of these development regions is in itself evidence that boundaries defined by provincial or federal governments have not always led to meaningful collaboration and better development outcomes. The second key foundation idea is that economic opportunities vary by region, and within a region they also vary over time. This makes it hard to define development strategies for regions at the provincial level. While provincial governments can target specific sectors as being high potential, it is much more difficult to identify which firms will be involved and where they will physically locate. By way of analogy, in Canada the federal government often determines high level national goals, but provinces generally insist that only they have the competence to develop the specific means for achieving them because conditions vary by province. In the same way, communities can be best placed to define the economic development approach that most suits their particular situation.
Download or read book Defining Regions for Building Economic Development Capacity in Newfoundland and Labrador written by David Freshwater and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report synthesizes the results of a multi-year effort to identify a more effective way of organizing economic development efforts in Newfoundland and Labrador. This synthesis collects the main ideas and results from the various interim reports and tasks conducted over the life of the project. More detailed information is available from these publications, including references to primary and secondary sources, available from Municipalities Newfoundland and Labrador (MNL). One main idea underlying the work is a belief that most individual communities in the province are too small by themselves to be viable economic units; therefore, to obtain the critical mass needed to expand economic opportunity there has to be some form of aggregation of local resources. This is a well understood situation. The province has for decades identified a number of alternative development regions that were meant to provide a structure for multi-community collaborations. But, the periodic redrawing of the boundaries of these development regions is in itself evidence that boundaries defined by provincial or federal governments have not always led to meaningful collaboration and better development outcomes. The second key foundation idea is that economic opportunities vary by region, and within a region they also vary over time. This makes it hard to define development strategies for regions at the provincial level. While provincial governments can target specific sectors as being high potential, it is much more difficult to identify which firms will be involved and where they will physically locate. By way of analogy, in Canada the federal government often determines high level national goals, but provinces generally insist that only they have the competence to develop the specific means for achieving them because conditions vary by province. In the same way, communities can be best placed to define the economic development approach that most suits their particular situation.
Download or read book The Theory Practice and Potential of Regional Development written by Kelly Vodden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-04 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canadian regional development today involves multiple actors operating within nested scales from local to national and even international levels. Recent approaches to making sense of this complexity have drawn on concepts such as multi-level governance, relational assets, integration, innovation, and learning regions. These new regionalist concepts have become increasingly global in their formation and application, yet there has been little critical analysis of Canadian regional development policies and programs or the theories and concepts upon which many contemporary regional development strategies are implicitly based. This volume offers the results of five years of cutting-edge empirical and theoretical analysis of changes in Canadian regional development and the potential of new approaches for improving the well-being of Canadian communities and regions, with an emphasis on rural regions. It situates the Canadian approach within comparative experiences and debates, offering the opportunity for broader lessons to be learnt. This book will be of interest to policy-makers and practitioners across Canada, and in other jurisdictions where lessons from the Canadian experience may be applicable. At the same time, the volume contributes to and updates regional development theories and concepts that are taught in our universities and colleges, and upon which future research and analysis will build.
Download or read book Rural Transformation and Newfoundland and Labrador Diaspora written by Amarjit Singh and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-08 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is endorsed by Dr. Clar Doyle in his preface to this book. Dr. Doyle is very well known locally. This book is about the contemporary life of grandparents in Newfoundland and Labrador – a geographically isolated and culturally unique rural region of Canada. The book can be used for courses in the areas of critical social work, family studies, gerontology, nursing, rural development, critical pedagogy, and diaspora studies. Clar Doyle, Professor of Education, Memorial University of Newfoundland, and member of the Founding Scholars Advisory Board, The Paulo and Nita Freire International Project for Critical Pedagogy. “This book offers a platform not only to look in on the lives of vital grandparents but paints, in broad strokes, a mural of coming, changing, as well as challenging cultural and social settings.... In what the astute editors ....call “small nuanced studies” we find telling narratives of generational connections in the face of changing and challenging odds....This book does a great service to the concept of diaspora, as well as to the changing nature of that concept... This book elevates the status of grandparents by positioning them as vital members of a complex and challenging society where their skills, gifts, and sheer presence are most formative.... As is strongly advocated in this book, it is essential that educators, curriculum developers, and teachers appreciate the place of grandparents in their students’ lives.”
Download or read book Sustainable Regional Development written by Michael P. Clair and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-16 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many communities and regions are being left behind in the new economic order. The book starts with the premise that, in today’s knowledge-based economy, innovation is key, but that only seems to happen in larger urban centres. It seems that smaller centres and peripheral regions can only look forward to decline and eventual irrelevance, but this need not be the case. Wherever there are people, there is the potential to innovate. This book demonstrates that innovators are not limited to inventors and entrepreneurs. Each innovation starts with an idea that is nurtured by its creator and incubated by the larger community. The book identifies different categories of creators such that many readers will recognize themselves as being, in fact, creators. And it identifies different ways of coming up with ideas, which may validate how creators spend their time. It identifies ways to judge whether ideas should be pursued or not and looks at the steps required to turn an idea into an innovation. Many declining communities and regions around the world have resuscitated themselves by being creative and innovative — sometimes in startling ways. This book will provide some ideas to help any region reinvent itself. But having a few individuals with good ideas is not sufficient to revive a region. This book also shows how effective leaders are needed to help stimulate more creative activity and, just as importantly, to coordinate the necessary resources to turn creative ideas into innovations. The book will appeal to students, scholars and researchers of economic, regional, social and sustainable development, innovation, public policy and economic geography, as well as practitioners and policymakers concerned with regional development and regional innovation policies.
Download or read book Handbook Of International Food And Agricultural Policies In 3 Volumes written by and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 1243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handbook of International Food and Agricultural Policies is a three-volume set that aims to provide an accessible reference for those interested in the aims and implementation of food and farm policies throughout the world. The treatment is authoritative, comprehensive and forward looking. The three volumes combine scholarship and pragmatism, relating academic writing to real-world issues faced by policy-makers. A companion volume looking at the future resource and climate challenges for global agriculture will be published in the future.Volume I covers Farm and Rural Development policies of developed and developing countries. The volume contains 20 country chapters together with a concluding comprehensive synthesis of lessons to be drawn from the experiences of the individual countries.Volume II examines the experience of countries with food policies, including those dealing with food safety and quality and the responsibility for food security in developing countries. The chapters address issues such as obesity, nutritional supplements, organic foods, food assistance programs, biotech food acceptance, and the place of private standards.Volume III describes and explains the international trade dimension of farm and food policies — both at the bilateral and regional level — and also the multilateral rules that influence and constrain individual governments. The volume also looks at the steps that countries are together taking to meet the needs of developing and low-income countries.The volumes are of value to students and researchers interested in economic development, agricultural markets and food systems. Policy-makers and professionals involved in monitoring and regulating agricultural and food markets would also find the volumes useful in their practical work. This three-volume set is also a suitable source for the general public interested in how their food system is influenced by government policies.
Download or read book OECD Rural Policy Reviews Rural Urban Partnerships An Integrated Approach to Economic Development written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report provides a framework to understand the changing relationships between urban and rural areas. Specifically, it documents the characteristics of these partnerships and the factors that can hinder as well as enable rural-urban co-operation.
Download or read book Does Community Really Matter in Newfoundland and Labrador written by John Douglas House and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Retrenchment and Regeneration in Rural Newfoundland written by Reginald Byron and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set against the background of momentous economic changes over the last decade, Retrenchment and Regeneration in Rural Newfoundland examines the economic, political, and social circumstances that have led to the current crisis in rural Newfoundland. In this timely collection, ten social scientists explore how outporters are coping with uncertainty, the choices that they are now confronting, and the consequences of these choices in terms of their capacity to sustain livelihoods into the next generation and beyond. Offering both general overviews and specific case studies drawn from recent research, Retrenchment and Regeneration in Rural Newfoundland provides insight into the moral and political economy of Newfoundland, the background to the collapse of the fish stocks, and the effects of the crisis on outporter's occupational choices and migration decisions. Rich in detail and thought-provoking ideas, this collection is the first to examine the interconnected problems and opportunities in rural Newfoundland in light of global economic and social changes.
Download or read book Community Matters written by Newfoundland. Economic Recovery Commission and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the findings of a task force charged with the mandate to make recommendations regarding a more efficient and effective approach to regional development in each of the proposed economic zones of Newfoundland and Labrador. The task force examined two broad areas of concern: organisational structures, and programs and services for community economic development. To achieve its stated goals, the task force held consultative meetings around the province, received submissions from interested parties, and conducted primary and secondary research. This task force report begins with an introduction on community economic development, the task force's consultation process, and the history of approaches to regional economic development in the province. It then presents the task force recommendations in sections covering the use of volunteers, the establishment of economic development zones, the Appendices include zone profiles, findings of an attitude survey, and lists of briefs presented.
Download or read book Understanding Regional Governance in Newfoundland and Labrador written by Kelly Vodden and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We would like to acknowledge the financial contributions and ongoing engagement of staff provided by Service Canada and the provincial Department of Human Resources, Labour and Employment (now Advanced Education and Skills). [...] A research team and an Advisory Committee representing a cross-section of government and regional organizations involved in labour market and regional economic development guided this initiative. [...] In particular the following students took lead roles in the research and writing for the following report sections: Economic and Labour Market Development - Patrick Curran and Ekaterina Lysenko Social Development - Janelle Skeard, Lynn Guppy, and Brian Woodford Environment and Natural Resources - Jennifer Daniels, Victoria Belbin, Ahmed Khan and Nicole Renaud Community Development and Multi-Object [...] The project objectives included: • The development of an innovative and dynamic regional economic capacity index (RECI) that stakeholders can use at the community and regional level to help address their labour supply and demand imbalances; • An assessment of existing information and data from current initiatives and programs to examine the impacts of, and the strength of relationships among tradi [...] The research presented in this report represents one of the most extensive assessments and inventories of regional governance activities and regional organizations (e.g.
Download or read book Understanding Regional Governance in Newfoundland and Labrador written by Kelly Vodden and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Presentation to Economic Planning Group by Enterprise Newfound and Labrador Re Regional Economic Development Coordination written by Enterprise Newfoundland Labrador and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Close to the Client written by Regional Economic Development Coordinating Committees (N.L.) and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Review of the Regional Economic Development Boards in Newfoundland and Labrador written by P.J. Gardiner Institute for Enterprise and Entrepreneurship and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Strategic Plan for the Long Range Regional Economic Development Board Zone 9 written by Long Range Regional Economic Development Board and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Commitment to Place written by Robert Marshall Greenwood and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovation and creative capacity are at the very foundation of regional economic development. Competing in the international knowledge-based economy demands products, services and processes that are better--in quality and/or price--than those produced elsewhere. Businesses, entrepreneurs, and creative workers must be able to access information on better ways of doing things, and develop their own unique approaches, if a region is to maximize its development potential. This report draws from research in Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) that was part of a national project on the Social Foundations of Innovation in City Regions, led by David Wolfe at the University of Toronto. The national project highlighted how innovation, talent attraction and retention, and governance are linked in providing the foundations for economic competitiveness. All too often research on policy and practices for economic development focuses on the activities of individual firms, their markets, technology and access to capital, without acknowledging the social factors that create the conditions for economic success.
