Delineating Functional Areas in All Territories / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

Format:

• Book
• Government document

Contributor:

• SourceOECD (Online service)

Series:

• OECD territorial reviews 19900759.
• OECD Territorial Reviews 19900759.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Urban, Rural and Regional Development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (85 pages).

Place of Publication:

Paris : OECD Publishing, 2020.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Functional areas such as integrated local labour markets exist across countries' entire national territory. However, most OECD countries have focused their work on larger cities and their surrounding area of economic influence by establishing the concept of functional urban areas. Extending this concept to non-urban areas can help policy makers analyse subnational developments and design spatially better-targeted policies. The report Delineating Functional Areas for all Territories provides a comprehensive review of existing approaches to delineating functional areas across countries' entire national territory as a tool for territorial statistics and regional policy making. The report explains the rationale for functional territories as a complement to established administrative geographies. It discusses the most important challenges and the methodological aspects of delineating functional areas based on travel-to-work commuting flows or novel sources of data and develops a set of methodological guidelines that are applied in five OECD countries, demonstrating the feasibility of delineating functional areas across diverse types of country geographies in a consistent manner.

Contents:

• Methodological guidelines to define functional areas
• Methodological algorithms
• Country examples: EU country delineations of functional areas
• The current experience of OECD countries
• LabourMarketAreas - R package
• Self-contained labour areas (SLA-ZTA) - Python package
• Foreword
• Conclusion
• Executive summary
• Sensitivity of functional areas to parameter specification
• Applying existing methods to countries without established functional areas
• Main approaches and challenges in defining functional areas
• Why delineate functional areas in all territories?.

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed May 1, 2017).

ISBN:

• 9789264536227
• 9789264805002
• 9789264767478

Access Restriction:

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