Levelling up left behind places : the scale and nature of the economic and policy challenge / edited by Ron Martin [and four others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Martin, Ron, editor.

Gardiner, Ben, editor.

Pike, Andy, 1968- editor.

Sunley, Peter, editor.

Tyler, Peter, editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

James A. Crawford Memorial Fund.

Series:

Regional Studies Policy Impact Bks.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (141 pages).

Place of Publication:

Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Foreword

About the authors

Acknowledgements

Preamble

Executive summary and key recommendations

Chapter 1: Introduction: The new discourse of "left behind places"

1.1: The Re-emergence and (Re)discovery of "left behind places"

1.2: "Left Behind places" as sites of discontent

1.3: What are "left behind places"?

1.4: "Levelling up": Moving beyond slogans

Chapter 2: Becoming "left behind": How places have grown apart

2.1: Situating the "left behind" problem

2.2: The "great turnaround": From convergence to divergence

2.3: Growing apart: macro-geographies of "falling behind"

2.4: From broad regions to local places: The complexity of the "left behind" landscape

2.5: The productivity puzzle and "left behind places"

2.6: Conclusions: The scale and geographies of the "left behind" problem

Chapter 3: Why places have fallen behind: The geographically uneven effects of economic transformation

3.1: Evolving geographies of economic transformation

3.2: Post-industrial spaces of growth and decline

3.3: The changing location of employment

3.4: The rise of knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS)

3.5: A public sector counter-weight?

3.6: A combined urban and regional problem

3.7: Cumulative processes and vicious circles

3.8: Conclusions: Understanding how places have become "left behind"

Chapter 4: Economic shocks and the differential resilience of places

4.1: Local economic development as a shock-prone process

4.2: The notion of local economic resilience

4.3: Economic resilience across UK localities

4.4: The emerging implications of brexit and the pandemic shocks

4.5: Conclusions: Resilience and recovery

Chapter 5: Learning from past policies for "levelling up" and "left behind places" in the UK

5.1: Learning from the past

5.2: Distinguishing spatial policies

5.3: Nine decades of the UK spatial policy

5.4: The limitations and weaknesses of past policies

5.5: Conclusions: Lessons from the past

Chapter 6: Institutions and policies for "levelling up" and "left behind places"

6.1: Key findings and their policy implications

6.2: Grasping the transformative moment for local, regional and urban development policy

6.3: Establishing a clear and binding national mission for "levelling up"

6.4: Realizing the potential of place in policymaking

6.5: Decentralizing towards a multilevel federal polity in the UK

6.6: Strengthening subnational funding and financing

6.7: Embedding geography in the national state and policy machinery

6.8: Improving subnational strategic research, intelligence, monitoring and evaluation capacity

6.9: Conclusions

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based upon online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed Janurary 3, 2022).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James A. Crawford Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Martin, Ron Levelling up Left Behind Places

ISBN:

9781000592900

1000592901

9781032244341

1032244348

Publisher Number:

40031013104

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.