Integrating tradition and sustainability: Crafting with Ton Bai Romkao in Phang Nga Province, Thailand

Chapter 1. Local Economic Development in a Global Market How Economists View the World Models and Assumptions Individual Behavior and Utility Maximization Ideological Perspectives on Market Operations How Markets Work Supply and Demand Supply, Demand, and Efficiency Markets Are Not Always Efficient The Role of Profits Economic Development Defined Careers in LED The Nature of Regions Types of Regions Local, National, and Global Economic Development Chapter 2. Business Location, Expansion, and Retention Locational Factors Inertia Transportation Cost Minimizing Models Production Costs National Political Climate and Stability Opportunity Creation The Decision Making Process Motivations Practical Limitations on the Choice Process Steps in the Corporate Site Selection Process Changing Relative Importance of Locational Factors Surveys of Location Factors Survey Findings Past to Present Conducting Business Retention and Expansion Programs 3. Markets, Urban Systems, and Local Development Demand and Market Areas Demand in a Spatial Setting Competition for Markets Threshold Demand and Range Determinants of Market Size The Urban Hierarchy and Urban System Central Places Goods and Services According to Urban Rank Changing Urban Patterns An Evaluation of the Central-Place Approach Considerations Extraneous to Central-Place Theory Transportation Costs Market Overlap, Rate Absorption, and Price Discrimination Product Differentiation Agglomeration Economies Institutional Factors Non-employment Residential Locations and Commuting Empirical Evidence Globalization and Urban (City) Systems How to Measure Areas of Influence Survey Techniques Reilly's Law of Retail Gravitation Probabilistic Models Retail Spending An Example Hinterland Expansion Strategies 4. Economic Interdependence and Local Structure Agglomeration Economies Internal Agglomeration Economies Direct Sales Purchases Linkages Localization Economies Urbanization Economies Recap Cluster Analysis Measures of Economic Structure North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) Location Quotients Estimating Export Employment with Location Quotients Surveys to Determine Export Activities Coefficients of Specialization Occupational Structure Other Aspects of Regional Structure 5. Regional Growth and Development Stages of Growth Industrial Filtering (Life Cycle Model) Adding New Work to Old How Do Cities Move from One State to the Next? Circular Flow Diagram Elements of the Circular Flow Model Equilibrium and Change The Multiplier The Export Base Theory of Growth The Formal Income Model How to Operationalize the Export Base Approach Impact Studies and Export Base Forecasts Critique of the Export-Base Approach Primacy of Exports Import Substitution Productivity Exports Not Always Exogenous Small versus Large Regions Feedbacks among Regions Non-basic Activities May Not Increase Long-Run Instability of the Multiplier Excessive Aggregation Supply-Side Approaches Intermediate Inputs Entrepreneurship Capital Land (Environmental Resources) Labor Supply and Demand Side Approaches: A Synthesis 6. Additional Tools for Regional Analysis Shift and Share Analysis An Application Critique Econometric and Simulation Models Econometric Models Caveats Importance-Strength Analysis Input-Output: Analysis The Transactions Table The Table of Direct Coefficients The Table of Direct and Indirect Coefficients Input-Output Applications 7. Institutionalist Perspectives on Local Development External Benefits from Economic Development Job and Income Creation Fiscal Improvement Physical Improvements Who Benefits From Growth? Characteristics of Resource Supply Opponents of Growth Subsidies, Competition and Economic Development Is Local Economic Development a Zero Sum Game? Inefficiency and Oversubsidization Discretionary versus Entitlement Subsidies Cost Minimization versus Human Capital Strategies Social Capital and Economic Development Generic Economic Problems and Social Capital Ambiguous Reception of Social Capital Social Capital and Local Development Strategies Using Social Capital to Mitigate Economic Development Conflicts Social Network Analysis: Getting the Right People to the Table Targeting Development Efforts Cluster-Based Economic Development 8. Local Economic Development in a Flattening World Models of Trade and Resource Flows Comparative Advantage Resource Mobility Economics of Migration Retiree-Migrant Development Strategy Mobility of Capital Innovations and Ideas Spatial Diffusion Implications for Regional Development Mobility and Development Policy Jobs-to-People versus People-to-Jobs Immigration and Urban Development 9. Land Use What Gives Land Value? Land Rents and Value The Nature of Rent, Productivity and Access Highest and Best Use The Land Development Process Developer Goals The Market Study Environmental Impact Statements Profit Feasibility The Development Decision Implications of Financial Analysis for LED Land-Use Patterns The Monocentric City Model The Desity Gradient Roads and Axial Development Agglomeration and the Multiple-Nuclear City Speculation Changing Land Use Patterns Evaluating Metropolitan Spread (Urban Sprawl) Land Use and Economic Development Tools Zoning and Its Critics Flexibility and Land Use Regulations The Eminent Domain Controversy Rights to Land and Economic Development 10. Housing and Neighborhood Development Fundamentals of Housing Economics Hedonic Pricing Uncertainty, Market Imperfections, and Competition Residential Location and Neighborhood Change The Filtering-Down Theory The Trade-Off Model The Cultural Agglomeration Model The Tiebout Model The Aggregate Economic Fallout Model Initiating and Perpetuating the Change Process Housing Policy Issues Rent Control versus Market Forces Income Support versus Housing Assistance Supply versus Demand Side Assistance Ghetto Dispersal versus Ghetto Improvement Dwelling-Unit versus Neighborhood Development Linkage Between Local Housing and Global Financial Markets Retail and Commercial Neighborhoods The Social Economy of Neighborhoods Community Development Corporations Cooperatives Community Gardens 11. Poverty and Lagging Regions The Nature of Poverty Conceptual Approaches Demographics of Poverty Spatial Concentrations of Urban Poverty Regional Linkages: The Spread and Backwash Effects Empirical Studies of Spatial Linkages Spatial Linkages and Theories of Spatial Poverty Policy Issues Strengthening Linkages Improving Productivity Addressing Wage Rigidities Employment Guarantee Schemes in India Income Support 12. Local Governance, Finance, and Regional Integration Spatial Perspectives on Government Functions Distribution and the Race to the Bottom Local Allocation Public Transportation - An Example Size and Scope of Local Governments Economies and Diseconomies of Scale Decision-Making Costs Improving Government Efficiency Using Prices and Fees Local Taxation and Economic Development Accountability Intergovernmental Competition Intergovernmental Grants and Coordination Rearranging Functions Privatization Market Based Reforms in Education Fiscal Impact and Benefit-Cost Studies Fiscal Impact Studies Benefit-Cost Analysis 13. Local Economic Development Planning The Future and Local Development Concern with Values and Attitudes Technological Change Systems Orientation Importance of Timing Planning Perspectives on Development Policy The Planning Process Limits of Planning Planning and Future Studies Tools Delphi Forecasting Games Scenarios Environmental Scanning About the Author

In this paper, we examine how devolution has affected local sustainable development. We focus on attempting to gauge how devolution will affect the promotion of sustainable development in the English regions through an analysis of the changes to date in Scotland, Wales and London. This evaluation is made more difficult because of the range of changes which devolution involves - political, institutional, organizational and cultural, and it is hard to ascribe particular outcomes to particular changes. The focus of the paper is examining how local sustainability regimes have been affected by devolution in the three case study regions. We then conclude that devolution can only add value to existing arrangements if it creates an additional level of legitimacy which supports local coalitions deepening their commitment to the principles of local sustainable development.

Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals Requires Transdisciplinary Innovation at the Local Scale

Local level economic development has eluded Ghana since independence. This was because most policies were centralized. As a result, focus was shifted to local economic development. This article comparatively examined the local economic development strategies implemented in three of Ghana’s Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies. Using the mixed method and multiple case study approaches of research, the study sampled a total of 533 respondents across the three Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies and analyzed data using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences. The study gleaned that the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies implemented similar local economic development strategies which could be categorized into contemporary local economic development and traditional local economic development approaches. Challenges such as inadequate finance, land tenure system, lack of modern equipment among others were identified. The provision of a central pool for financing local economic development, harmonization of locality development policies, de-politicization of local economic development policies, the adoption of change management strategies in Ghana’s local governance system, effective land tenure system are recommended for the success of local economic development in Ghana.

Contents: Foreword, Jeffrey A. Finkle Preface Part 1 Introduction: The importance of theory: linking theory to practice, James E. Rowe. Part 2 Defining the Discipline: Theory and practice in economic development: 80 entangled years in search of Panacea, Mark Miller The evolution of American (spatial) local and regional economic development policy and planning, Edward J. Blakely The theory and practice of developing locally, Andrew Beer. Part 3 Theoretical Concepts: 'Globalisation' and 'local economic development' in a globalising world: critical reflections on the theory-practice relation, Richard Le Heron Configuring to be globally competitive, Michael I. Luger Location theory, Philip McCann The theory behind business clusters, Martin Perry Regional economic development methods and analysis: linking theory to practice, Robert Stimson and Roger R. Stough The role of universities in theories of regional development, Paul Dalziel, Caroline Saunders and William Kaye-Blake Philosophies in entrepreneurship: a focus on economic theories, Luke Pittaway Theory and practice of technology-based economic development, Harvey A. Goldstein Social capital and local economic development, John P. Blair and Michael Carroll. Part 4 Theoretical Frameworks: Imperatives of enjoyment: economic development under globalisation, Michael Gunder Moving the discipline beyond metaphors, James E. Rowe Towards an alternative theoretical framework for understanding local economic development James E. Rowe Appendices Index.

PurposeThis study aims to understand how businesses can contribute to the achievement of the UN sustainable development goals (SDGs) by implementing Local Agenda 21 (or equivalent) plans in partnership with other organizations situated in their city. To this end, the present study examines drivers and outcomes from the perspective of business partners, as well as their relationships to the SDGs.Design/methodology/approachThrough a mixed-methods approach this research studies 71 businesses from four large cross-sector partnerships formed to achieve local sustainability goals. Data were collected through a survey to determine why firms partner and what outcomes they obtain from partnering. Qualitative content analyses are used to determine the relationships between business drivers and outcomes from partnering for local sustainability and the SDGs.FindingsFrom a resource-based view (RBV) perspective, findings show the value of local sustainability partnerships in relation to the SDGs. Many SDG targets are aligned with the top reasons why businesses join large community sustainability partnerships. Also, through the outcomes achieved by participating in the partnership businesses can further the SDGs.Research limitations/implicationsThis research contributes to the literature and to practice through the understanding of businesses partnering for local sustainability, and its relationships to global sustainability. Firstly, the connections of business partners to local and global sustainability are better understood. Of note is the contribution made to the literature on sustainability-related drivers and outcomes expanding and refining RBV literature. Secondly, a positive connection has been established between businesses and the SDGs, proposing a virtuous model of relationship that summarizes the findings from this research. And thirdly, large cross-sector social partnerships are better understood.Practical implicationsSmall- and medium-sized enterprises and large corporations with local offices can further both local and global sustainable development by engaging in local cross-sector sustainability partnerships.Social implicationsThese research findings are crucial for those leading sustainability initiatives, so they can engage businesses actively in light of the important role they play in society improving their contributions and the chances for sustainability partnerships to achieve their goals.Originality/valueThis research contributes to the scale conversation by exploring community sustainability partnerships as a means to understand how business engagement in sustainability at the local level can contribute to the achievement of the SDGs and, ultimately, to global sustainability.

This research explores the manifestations of traditional crafts and arts in contemporary Saudi interior design as a key approach to highlighting local cultural identity amidst modern design transformations. The study stems from the problem of the discrepancy between the increasing presence of heritage elements in interior spaces and the limited depth of their cultural application, as well as the absence of an analytical vision that balances the aesthetic and symbolic dimensions of these crafts. The research aims to analyze the nature of the presence of traditional crafts and arts in Saudi interior design, revealing their role in strengthening cultural identity, supporting cultural sustainability, and contributing to the revitalization of the local economy. It also explores the complementary relationship between these dimensions in contemporary design practice. My research employs a descriptive-analytical approach supported by a quantitative survey methodology. Quantitative data was collected through a questionnaire administered to a sample of 220 participants, including specialists, practitioners, and craftspeople. Qualitative data was also gathered through semi-structured interviews with 40 participants, allowing for a multi-faceted analysis of the phenomenon. The findings revealed a general positive trend towards the importance of integrating traditional crafts into interior design as an element that enhances identity and visual distinction. However, it was noted that this integration remains largely superficial in some practices, and its success depends heavily on the designer's awareness and the supportive institutional and market environment. The results also highlighted the potential of interior design to transform traditional crafts into a sustainable cultural and economic resource when integrated within a comprehensive vision. In light of this, the research recommended the development of supportive design and legislative frameworks for the deep cultural and economic integration of traditional crafts, enhancing designers' awareness of their symbolic dimensions, and activating partnerships between designers and local artisans to contribute to sustainable cultural and economic development.

This study examines the relationship between road investments and local economic development. More specifically, it incorporates the best available theory on this relationship into a workable approach for those faced with making road investment decisions. To provide a sense of the types of projects state-level highway administrators must evaluate and to apply the approach developed, a specific state program is used as a case study. Chapter 1 is an introduction. Chapter 2 presents a discussion of the economic development process. In Chapter 3 highway investment is related to local and regional economic development. Chapter 4 provides a review of previous research on the connection between highway investment and economic growth and development, and reports the results of a survey conducted of all 50 state departments of transportation. Also discussed in Chapter 4 are the features of special economic development highway programs found in 24 states. Their ability to promote efficient investments is examined. Chapter 5 examines Iowa's RISE (Revitalize Iowa's Sound Economy) program. The details of the program are explained and its funding experience to date is summarized. The 18 projects approved more than three years prior to this evaluation are then examined. Performance measures used by the Iowa DOT -- cost per job assisted and capital investment ratio -- are applied to compare projected and reported results. These two performance measures are critiqued as bases for making investment decisions. In the final chapter, Chapter 6, the framework presented in Chapters 2 and 3 are applied to assess the economic development impacts of the 18 case study RISE projects. A series of questions or screens are used in the evaluation of each RISE project. These screens constitute a sequential series of considerations for a state evaluating a proposed road improvement if the objective is local economic development.

Despite the growing interest in the topic, there has been little quantitative research about the causes and rate of acquisition and loss of local ecological knowledge. Some researchers have linked the loss of local ecological knowledge to the expansion of the market economy (Godoy et al., 1998; Ross, 2002; Reyes-Garcia et al., 2005a), others have found persistence in local ecological knowledge despite large socio-economic changes (Zarger and Stepp, 2004), and still others have found that integration into the market economy through an economic activity based in the natural environment could accelerate the acquisition of local ecological knowledge (Guest, 2002). The debate matters for policy-making because if integration to the market erodes local knowledge, there would be no possibility of simultaneously achieving conservation of local knowledge and economic development. In contrast, if integration to the market economy does not affect or does not always affect local knowledge, then some forms of market incorporation could develop without eroding local ecological knowledge. In this article we test how various forms of integration to the market economy affect local ecological knowledge. Local knowledge has many domains (i.e., myth, cosmology), including local ecological knowledge, which itself comprises many subdomains, such as plants, animals, insects, or soils. We proxy local ecological knowledge with ethnobotanical knowledge. We use a new way of measuring ethnobotanical knowledge that stresses skills that draw on ethnobotanical knowledge, and compare results with standard measures of ethnobotanical knowledge that stress passive knowledge. We hypothesize that only some forms of integration to the market economy, namely activities that take individuals out of their culture and environment, are associated with less local ecological knowledge. To explore the topic, we draw on information from 476 Tsimane’—a foraging-horticultural society in the Bolivian Amazon.

The aim of the present study is to investigate the linkages between local economic development, innovation, and environmental sustainability inside urban areas. Can innovation affect the improvement of the quality of life inside urban areas? This research question comes from the consideration that usually innovation and growth in general are considered sources of conflict in affecting the livability of large cities. The objective of the paper is to design a model — the “SustaIn-Led” - to connect levels of environmental sustainability, quality of life, and economic development inside metropolitan areas, taking into account also innovation processes, activated by the innovation policies and by the knowledge economy. The study takes in consideration the 53 largest United States metropolitan areas with a population over 1 million, with a time series from the years 2000 through 2015. This has been done because of a two-fold reason: (1) the US among high-income countries is the one with the highest number of universities, patents, and citations; (2) several studies have shown that innovation occurs in large cities. The first part of the present study has carried out the identification of the variables to represent and significantly explain the phenomena – local economic development, innovation, and environmental sustainability – linked to the design of the SustaIn-LED model. Environmental sustainability in urban areas in this paper is represented by means of the Air Quality Index (AQI), while the number of workers synthetically quantifies local economic development. Correlation and multiple regression analyses are conducted in order to examine the relationship between the three main indicators. The multiple regressions for the year 2015 produced a low p-value, indicating that the predictors are significant in the regression analysis. Similar results of p-value are shown in all the years from 2000 to 2013. For 2015, the results showed that part of the variance in the measure of total workers of the metropolitan areas could be predicted by measures of innovation and air quality. Higher R² values have been registered for the years from 2000 through 2013. The development of the SustaIn-LED model could be utilized in urban regeneration processes to help in the design of new urban planning policies inside large cities by means of a better comprehension of environmental and economic implications caused by the implementation of innovation policies.

In this paper it will be shown how to build a local brand through the model of local sustainability. Territorial assets as a local activity and informal rules for a joint work of a community are taken as starting points in brand creation. The operational hypothesis is to present the building of a local community brand though the created model which consists of four components of local community sustainability: spatial – ecological sustainability, economic - social sustainability, humanistic – cultural sustainability and political – institutionalized sustainability (in the text: SEESHCPI model). The SEESHCPI model is also used in building and creation of the brand of the municipality of SvetiKrižZačretje. Even though the brand has to be the starting point for a sustainable tourist development of the place this is not its main purpose.

This chapter explains the objective of this book, which is to compare local and regional economic development (LRED). This book aims to provide a better understanding of how local economic development is currently practised in Australia, England, Northern Ireland, and the United States. It describes the institutional landscape of LRED, examines the different governance structures for LRED's delivery, and outlines the main funding systems for local development in each country. The book analyses some of the main differences within each country in terms of how local-development activities are conducted and provides a critical analysis of the views of practitioners of the most and least effective approaches to economic development in each country.

Over the last two decades, interest increased with regard to how some research universities made direct impacts on surrounding regional economic activities and growth. Although the role of basic research for most research universities has remained strong, pressure has intensified to broaden its missions to include helping local and regional economic development efforts. Consequently, many research universities have evolved their basic scientific research mission from the production of scientific knowledge to the sharing and exchange of knowledge with local industries by actively engaging in local economic development (Uyarra 2010). Previous examination has shown that most research universities contribute to local and regional economic development by various functions they provide. They are as follows: Creation of Knowledge, Human-capital creation, Transfer of existing know-how, Technological innovation, Capital investment, Regional leadership, Knowledge infrastructure production and Influence in regional milieu (Drucker and Goldstein 2007). This paper will review the existing literature on the role of universities and its impacts on local regional economic growth and development. In addition, this paper will show how two major research universities (The University of Arizona and Arizona State University) have contributed to the growth of Arizona during last two decades. It is believed that the existence of these two research universities have been instrumental in making industries more diverse and highly attractive, particularly in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area.

Ponte Academic JournalNov 2022, Volume 78, Issue 11 THE IMPACT OF COVID19 ON LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION IN SOUTH AFRICAAuthor(s): Sentiwe Maxwell ,lukman Yosuf, Makiwane BeautyJ. Ponte - Nov 2022 - Volume 78 - Issue 11 doi: 10.21506/j.ponte.2022.11.1 Abstract:Abstract Local Economic Development is an approach towards economic development which allows and encourages local people to work together to achieve sustainable economic growth and development thereby bringing economic benefits and improved quality of life for all residents in a local municipal area. As a programme, LED is intended to maximize the economic potential of all municipal localities throughout the country and, to enhance the resilience of the macro-economic growth through increased local economic growth, employment creation and development initiatives within the context of sustainable development (Bibri, S.E., 2021). LED is globally, but especially in developing countries, seen as the solution to improved quality of life, unemployment, poverty, and inequality. Development economics is focused on the economic, cultural, and political requirements to effect fast institutional reform so as to distribute the benefits of economic progress to the broadest section of the population, thereby ensuring that the poverty trap is broken (Eldridge, E., Rancourt, M.E., Langley, A. and Héroux, D., 2022). In order to achieve this, government intervention by means of policy formulation is needed as a component of development economics. With this background this paper will look into the impact of covid 19 on Local economic development and innovation in the Eastern Cape Municipalities, as this pandemic is threatening the stability of local government economy. In this study of the impact of covid19 on local economic development policy, evaluation theory was considered in the conversion of inputs that pertain to community needs. Download full text:Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution Username Password

A great many papers have considered and analysed the problems of local economic planning and development, and it was a pleasure to read Michael Teitz's contribution with its emphasis on the role of small business. There are, however, differences in approach among writers on local economic development and it is useful to explore such differences. At first reading, Teitz's analysis appears to demonstrate a systematic approach, for he first discusses the problem of local economic development and the ways in which we understand how local economies work before proceeding to a review of the question of intervention to stimulate economic development. The core of the problems seems to be the loss of sources of employment and income without any evident means of replacement. For his analysis of the understanding of local economies, Michael Teitz discusses three kinds of approach which have been adopted traditional, structural and developmental and gives examples of each. However, provisional conclusions such as the following are somewhat disappointing and unremarkable: 'No simple formula can be employed in every circumstance to generate development'; 'Each of the broad conceptual approaches discussed so far is reflected in corresponding economic development strategies, albeit imperfectly.' The section discussing intervention and planning in the local economy is a clear description of actual approaches in the USA and the UK, but the analysis does not