10 research outputs found
Sustainable regional economic strategy for North West England
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The Role of Discourse Coalitions in Planning for Renewable Energy: A Case Study of Wind-Energy Deployment
The environmental dimension of sustainable regional development in the English regions: reflections upon the experience of North West England
Participatory rural appraisal to assess groundwater resources in Al-Mujaylis, Tihama Coastal Plain, Yemen
The Evidence – Policy Interface in Strategic Waste Planning for Urban Environments: The ‘Technical’ and the ‘Social’ Dimensions
New Patterns of Governance in the English Region: Assessing their Implications for Spatial Planning
Real Geographies, Real Economies and Soft Spatial Imaginaries: Creating a ‘More than Manchester’ Region
Stating the Production of Scales: Centrally Orchestrated Regionalism, Regionally Orchestrated Centralism
Under the banner of the new regionalism, the past decade has witnessed a revival of academic and political interest in the region as a strategic site for economic activity and scale for socially integrating civil society. What remains unclear, however, are the 'actual mechanisms' that connect this new politics of economic development with transitions in the regulation and governance of contemporary capitalism and its territorial form. This article seeks further connection by distinguishing between the processes of "centrally orchestrated regionalism" and "regionally orchestrated centralism" in the production of regions. While sympathetic to the general tenor of the new regionalism, this article presents an account of England's unique new regionalist policy experiment to pose searching questions relating to the future direction of the new regionalism. Arguing that the new regionalism remains a fruitful avenue for unravelling the processes involved in the production of spatial scale(s), the article concludes that uncovering the politically charged processes involved in the production of subnational space remains an urgent task for urban and regional scholars. Copyright (c) 2008 The Author. Journal Compilation (c) 2008 Joint Editors and Blackwell Publishing Ltd.