Description
Local development in border territories
Book Summary
This work offers a rigorous analysis of the application of local development in border areas, territories where unique challenges and opportunities converge. The reader will find a deep reflection on how local development practices are transformed, strengthened, or disappear in contexts of crisis, with special attention to border regions. An essential study to understand the territorial dynamics in border zones and the strategies to leverage their endogenous resources.
What is it about?
The book examines the evolution of local development as a tool for transformation in border territories, analyzing how these areas face processes of change in a context of global crisis. The work delves into the metamorphoses that local development has experienced—from its survival to its reinforcement or disappearance—paying special attention to the particularities of border regions. Through a multidisciplinary approach, it addresses pending tasks and specific challenges faced by these territories, where economic, demographic, and geographical factors converge, conditioning their development.
Main topics
- Local development and territorial planning in border spaces
- Impact of economic crises on regional development strategies
- Population dynamics and demography in border zones
- Economic geography of cross-border territories
- Valorization of endogenous resources in peripheral regions
Who is it recommended for?
Aimed at territorial development professionals, geographers, economists, sociologists, and urban and regional planners. It is also highly useful for university students in social sciences, public policy researchers, and local development agents working in border contexts or peripheral areas. Likewise, it will interest public administration officials and organizations involved in the management of cross-border territories.
What this book contributes
- An updated analytical framework on the transformations of local development in contexts of crisis
- Keys to understanding the specificities of border territories and their development dynamics
- Practical perspectives on how to leverage endogenous resources in border zones
- A critical vision of the pending challenges in territorial border management
- Conceptual tools to design development strategies adapted to border realities
Technical specifications
- Author: University of Huelva
- Publisher: University of Huelva
- Language: Spanish
- Topic: Population and demography, International economy, Economic geography
- Collection: Collectanea
- Binding: Other
- Publication date: February 2016
- Number of pages: 102
- Weight: 265 g
Editorial review
A concise yet substantial work that addresses a topic little explored in specialized literature: local development in border territories. Its multidisciplinary approach and its timeliness—at a time of crisis that has reconfigured territorial dynamics—make it a useful reference for both academics and development professionals. Although its length is limited, it offers a clear and structured view of the main challenges and opportunities presented by these unique spaces.