Crossing borders: development, learning and the North – South divide

McFarlane, Colin

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“…(3) The terms 'developed' and 'developing', 'First' and 'Third Worlds', and 'Global North' and 'South' are imbued in political and ethical issues about their suitability. However, in this paper I do not enter these debates, but see McFarlane (2006a) for an interesting discussion. (4) Although the success of such ventures appears to be limited either through a lack of entrepreneurial skill amongst those who establish such businesses, or due to a poor environment for investment (World Bank, 2006: Chapter 3).…”

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Which migration, what development? Unsettling the edifice of migration and development

Raghuram

2009

Population Space and Place

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mitigating deepening global inequalities. As a result a range of institutions and individuals have become involved in studying, fostering and more recently critiquing the range of programmes and practices that can be swept under the migration-development nexus (Sørensen et al., 2002). 1Migration and development have long been interlinked Bakewell, 2007). In the fi rst half of the twentieth century, although most such discussions focused on the role of rural-urban migration in development, analysis of international migration and its developmental effects too were recognised in diplomatic as well as academic circles. In the 1950s and 1960s, in what some might call the heydays of developmentalism, treatises were written on the role of migration in development in a variety of locations ranging from Mexico (Randall, 1962) to Australia (Woolmington, 1958), Indonesia (Wertheim, 1959) to Nyasaland 2 (Van Velsen, 1960), to name just a few. Demography and economics were among the fi elds that retained a fi rm interest in the relationship between migration and development, but in most disciplines neo-classical theories of economic growth and the benefi ts of development were largely unquestioned. Interest in migration and development gathered pace through the 1970s and 1980s, but there was now considerable pessimism over the developmental impacts of migration as the developmental loss accrued by poorer countries through the emigration of the skilled, the lack of opportunities to use skills in the destination countries, and the limited impact of remittances on economic growth in origin countries all came to be theorised through the lens of dependency .In recent years several events have intensifi ed interest in the relationship between migration and development. First is the limited success of ABSTRACTIn recent years migration has been rediscovered as a key intervening apparatus in facilitating development, offering a route to mitigating deepening inequalities. National governments, international funding organisations and diasporic organisations have all mobilised migrants to fund development initiatives in 'origin' countries. This has led to a range of calculative processes whereby some forms of migration and particular forms of development come to be visible, while others become 'invisibilised'. This paper explores some narratives of migration and development to illustrate how current debates on migration and development ignore certain scalar politics and specifi c temporalities, while scaffolding others. It suggests new ways of thinking about migration and development.

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Which migration, what development? Unsettling the edifice of migration and development

Raghuram

2009

Population Space and Place

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“…Audirac 1999 ;Jones 2000 ;Bunker and Houston 2003 ;Busck et al 2006 ;McFarlane 2006 ). In these regions, early urban environmental challenges were met through reactive urban planning strategies that consolidated a superfi cial urban-rural dichotomy and gave rise to rigid urban planning doctrines based on homogeneous land use zones and were later to be exported through colonial infl uence and associated bodies of practice such as town and country planning.…”

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“…Therefore, many of the traditional concerns of peri-urban 'development' research and planning in the global South can and should provide lessons for (post-) industrial cities in countries of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the transitional economies struggling to adjust to rapidly changing circumstances in the context of rigid or outdated planning legacies on the urban fringe or in the Zwischenstadt (e.g. Audirac 1999 ;Jones 2000 ;Bunker and Houston 2003 ;Sieverts 2003 ;Busck et al 2006 ;Gallent et al 2006 ;McFarlane 2006 ;Qviström 2010Qviström , 2013Ravetz et al 2013 ). Most existing forms of urbanism are morphologically, functionally and environmentally unsustainable under current conditions.…”

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Archaeology and Contemporary Dynamics for More Sustainable, Resilient Cities in the Peri-Urban Interface

Simon

Adam-Bradford

2016

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Understanding of urban fringes or peri-urban interfaces (PUIs) as zones characterised by rapid transitional change and sprawling urbanisation has increased markedly over recent years. Archaeological evidence also illustrates the pivotal role that peri-urban zones once played in the survivability of ancient urban centres. Over the last three decades, urban growth and associated transitional changes have accelerated in most regions, producing major challenges to the development of resilient cities capable of absorbing climatic, economic and environmental shocks. Globalised processes of industrialisation and market interdependence have remoulded urban fringes, bringing increased environmental impacts, including the loss of natural resources and environmental buffers now recognised as essential for urban resilience. Furthermore, ongoing global environmental change (GEC) and increasing socio-economic inequality are generating new priorities as peri-urban zones consolidate, erode and shift outwards. Given the inadequacies of existing frameworks, we advocate a hybrid approach to PUI planning and design that draws on integrated, agropolitan-type perspectives embedded within a resilient, locally appropriate regional-urban focus within broader socio-spatial and geo-economic systems. Diverse historical and contemporary examples inform the discussion of the PUI planning and design and the identifi cation of policy recommendations for a hybrid planning approach based on adaptive capacity and resilience.

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“…Hult, 2013). Hodson and Marvin (2009; recognize the need to address what they call "ordinary cities, " and McFarlane (2006) says that focusing on the cities' comparative level of development (be it political, economic or technological) hinders the possibility of bidirectional learning. In the end, sustainability is a "collective good" (Geels, 2011), which means that it is in everyone's interest to coordinate efforts and learn from the best practices, regardless of where they come from.…”

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Environmental Technology and its Role in the Search for Urban Environmental Sustainability : The Dynamics of Adaptation

Mejía-Dugand¹

2015

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Sweden Cover artArmando Paez says that scarcity is not inherent to nature, but it has emerged from the tendency of looking at everything in terms of domination and submission, from the misunderstanding of the relations between humanity and the rest of nature. This cover expresses how close humans are to nature, even when they insist on distancing themselves from it. The reticulate patterns in this leaf resemble the streets and waterways of a city. In nature, this structure works in a way that ensures that every single cell has access to water and nutrients. Cities are places for everyone and they should work in the same way, providing everything their inhabitants need: clean air, water and soil, food, spaces for social interaction, and security. The foundations for more sustainable cities are laid; perhaps we need to improve our cities' ability to adapt to the nature that supports them. AbstractThe aim of this thesis is to analyze the role that environmental technology plays in the solution of environmental problems in cities, and discuss models and conditions that can facilitate the processes of selection, implementation and use of environmental technologies in and by cities.The technological component is perhaps one of the most important characteristics of modern cities. The dependence of humans on technology is in most cases a given, something that is not ignored in the sustainability debate. The development and implementation of new, "better" technologies is however hindered by the inertia that modern societies have and the influence of the dominant systems (e.g. economic systems based on growth, extraction of natural resources and environmental disturbance). So-called environmental technologies are not always able to efficiently compete against other technologies that are embedded in societies by lock-in mechanisms, e.g. learning by doing and using, scale economies, subsidies, and network externalities.Even with the "right" technologies, an exclusively techno-centered approach to sustainability can result in other problems, and it might reduce the sustainability debate and the cities' role in it to discussions of an administrative nature. The actual role of local actors and their agency must be also considered in the models and frameworks directed at understanding sustainability transition processes. It is thus important to analyze the dynamics of technology selection, implementation, use and diffusion in cities from a stakeholders' perspective as well.Not only is the availability of technology of interest for understanding the impact it has on the environment, but also the intensity of its use. This has resulted in increased attention from politicians and scholars on the so-called global cities (e.g. London, New York, Tokyo), which are characterized by their intense use of e.g. transport, security and surveillance, and information and communication. Paradigmatic models of sustainability can however be contested when the role of local actors, power and agency are considered in detail and not isolated from ...

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Crossing borders: development, learning and the North – South divide

Cited by 94 publications

References 53 publications

Which migration, what development? Unsettling the edifice of migration and development

Which migration, what development? Unsettling the edifice of migration and development

Archaeology and Contemporary Dynamics for More Sustainable, Resilient Cities in the Peri-Urban Interface

Environmental Technology and its Role in the Search for Urban Environmental Sustainability : The Dynamics of Adaptation

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