The COST Action CA18110 – Underground Built Heritage as catalyser for Community Valorisation has confirmed the new date for its second training school as 20-24 September 2021 and has issued a Call for Applications. The Training School will be will be held in Murcia and will be managed by the University of Murcia. It will offer […]
Local responses to the COVID-19 crisis: A new briefing on lessons for rural development
Several organisations have been collecting and publishing local initiatives in response to the Covid-19 crisis. We have updated our overview and are offering below the links to a number of these initiatives (see sections 1 and 2). We have also conducted a number of discussions in June/July 2020 through the webinar series ‘Rebuilding local economies […]
Active public participation and stakeholders’ engagement
This International Summer Course on Public Participation, Stakeholders’ Engagement, Co-Creation Methods offers active learning and new insights while performing an intense immersion in theory and practice of Active Participation Processes. It is highly interactive and appropriate to gain competencies to better intervene in EU and other projects. Organised by Mediatedomain and takes place from 6 […]
Bibliography on governance and participative planning
Local government OECD 1985 The role of local government authorities in economic and employment development, OECD 1986 Employment creation policies: new roles for cities towns OECD .1999 Managing decentralisation, A new role for labour market policies OECD 2001 Cities for citizens, The role of metropolitan Governance ISEAT 2002 Experience from IR, UK and BE Wallonia, […]
John M. Bryden: Local Development
John M. Bryden 2010 Local Development, ch 23 in “The Human Economy, A Citizen’s Guide”, Edited by K. Hart. J.L. Laville and A.D. Cattani, Polity Press, Cambridge, UK, 2010 Publication Type: book Length: pp 248-260 Abstract: The paper discusses the emergence of local development in two largely unrelated ways – opposition to growing state power […]