Planning strategies and practices in non-core regions: a critical response

Kinossian, Nadir

doi:10.1080/09654313.2017.1361606

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“…The concluding commentary by Kinossian (2017) picks up the aforementioned arguments and the new ideas for planning approaches and practice. By going back to the initial critique of the mainstream or 'orthodox' planning approaches, the author comments on the novel directions to think 'beyond growth' and highlights different starting points for development alternatives and new planning strategies, which value local resources and better respond to diverse local conditions, specific constraints and opportunities in non-core regions.…”

Section: Alternative Approaches To Development In Non-core Regionsmentioning

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Re-thinking non-core regions: planning strategies and practices beyond growth

Leick

Lang

2017

European Planning Studies

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Periods of ongoing growth in the economy and demographics have come to a halt for many European regions for various reasons, challenging their economic development prospects. Despite the heterogeneous nature of stagnation, decline, peripheralization or even stigmatization to be found there, these configurations 'beyond growth' have in common that short-term 'fire-fighting' policy approaches aiming to foster regional economic growth face some important limitations. We argue that this has to do, among other things, with the overall direction of established and orthodox planning approaches that are predominantly based on growth-oriented paradigms and implicitly or explicitly work with dichotomous categories such as core-periphery and metropolitan versus non-metropolitan spaces; these do, however, not capture local realities in these cases. Using the notion of non-core regions, we plead for conceptualizing non-core regions and their regional economic development trajectories in different ways: thinking 'beyond growth'. Such alternative ideas should be informed by alternative understandings of growth, development and sustainability in order to influence theories and concepts, but also to support new approaches to planning practice. To this aim, we discuss non-core regions from a social constructivist perspective, elaborating some points of departure for conceptualizing and practising regional planning 'beyond growth'.

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Section: Alternative Approaches To Development In Non-core Regionsmentioning

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Re-thinking non-core regions: planning strategies and practices beyond growth

Leick

Lang

2017

European Planning Studies

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“…Rather, a broader range of topics aimed at informing an alternative policy agenda for the development of PA should be considered and addressed. For example, social innovation and eco‐entrepreneurialism, diverse economic opportunities, community involvement, rural welfare, environmental quality, as a precondition to effectively dealing with the major environmental and key societal challenges these areas face and will face in coming years (Dax & Fischer, ; Kinossian, ).…”

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The Etna macro‐region between peripheralization and innovation: Towards a smart territorial system based on tourism

Bella

Petino

Scrofani

2019

Regional Science Policy & Practice

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This article offers an initial exploratory analysis of some promising agents and innovative practices for a long-term strategy of sustainable, inclusive and smart territorial development for peripheral areas in the Etna macro-region. It aims to scrutinize the potential role of tourism and local entrepreneurship with a view to implementing a territorial approach to a smart specialization strategy. Mostly based on statistical analysis and a critical review of literature, the paper gives an overview on strengths and weaknesses of some existing rural cluster initiatives of innovation, which are of interest to implementing a tourism-centred smart specialization that aims to combine tourism diversification and sustainable development. Both the promising and problematic side of the concept of smart specialization are discussed and some policy implications for realizing tourism innovation in accordance with the need to draw up an alternative policy agenda for the development of peripheral areas are suggested.

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“…Policies at regional, national and European level have targeted innovation and technology transfer. Research and policy-making in this area has aimed to analyze and strengthen growing regions (Kinossian, 2017;Servillo et al, 2012), with a wide body of academic literature confirming this interest (e.g. Lazzeroni, Bellini, Cortesi, & Loffredo, 2013;Moulaert & Sekia, 2003).…”

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Utilizing endogenous potentials through EU cohesion policy: examples from Central Europe

Harfst

Wirth

Marot

2020

European Planning Studies

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The Barca Report of 2009 firmly placed endogenous potentials on the European Union policy agenda. Now, as the current EU programming period 2014-2020 draws to a close, this article examines how such potentials are being shaped and applied at the local and regional levels. We reflect upon lessons learned from this approach, thereby contributing to the debate on the next European Union's cohesion programming period from 2020 onwards. The analysis deals with the valorization of place-based development potentials in case study regions, highlighting challenges in the current development of such regions. Examples are given of the utilization of endogenous potentials, and we consider lessons learned from this locally-led, place-based development approach for the wider framework of European cohesion policy. The focus is on (old) industrial regions, characterized by small-and medium-sized towns outside major agglomerations. The authors conclude that it is insufficient to merely consider the direct economic effects of endogenous development potentials. Instead, a more comprehensive perspective is required, one that pays greater attention to other functions of endogenous approaches, specifically their catalyst, identity and symbolic functions.

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Planning strategies and practices in non-core regions: a critical response

Cited by 28 publications

References 31 publications

Re-thinking non-core regions: planning strategies and practices beyond growth

Re-thinking non-core regions: planning strategies and practices beyond growth

The Etna macro‐region between peripheralization and innovation: Towards a smart territorial system based on tourism

Utilizing endogenous potentials through EU cohesion policy: examples from Central Europe

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