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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Literature Review -- 3 Evaluating Local Economic Development Initiatives -- 4 South Africa's Space Economy and the Eastern Cape's Key Historical, Economic and Spatial Features -- 5 Incipient Local Economic Development in the Eastern Cape: 1909-1955 -- 6 Regional Development Planning in the Eastern Cape, 1940-1993 -- 7 Evolving Local Economic Development Policy and Practice in South Africa -- 8 Community Initiated and Driven Local Economic Development in a Small Town: The Case of Stutterheim, 1990-1996 -- 9 External Facilitation and Support of a Locally Initiated Local Economic Development Strategy: The Case of Seymour -- 10 Community Initiated Local Economic Development in the Rural District of Hertzog -- 11 Externally Supported and Initiated Local Economic Development in Kei Road -- 12 External Attempts to Induce Local Economic Development and Job Creation Programmes in Rural Communities in the Border Corridor -- 13 Local Economic Development in the City of East London: 1992-1996 -- 14 Assessment, Findings and Comparison with International Experience -- 15 Conclusion and Policy Recommendations -- Bibliography.

Designed for planners, this book examines why care is needed in the urban environment and includes real-world examples that examine how planners can create nurturing environments, include all who live there, build sensitively, support meaningful livelihoods, and enable compassionate governance.

Introduction -- PART 1: SOCIAL INNOVATION AS A TOOL FOR DEMARGINALIZATION, Pierre-Antoine Landel and Sabine Girard: Questioning the Transformative Capacity of Social Innovation: The Example of Agroecology Transition in the Drôme Valley (FR) -- Juan-Luis Klein: Social Innovation, Knowledge and Local Revitalization: a case of knowledge co-construction in a local rural community -- Mélanie Doyon, Juan-Luis Klein , Pierre-André Tremblay and Camille Arsenault-Hétu: Local Community and Social Enterprise: a food security oriented initiative in Saint-Camille -- PART 2: REGIONS, REGIONAL POTENTIALS, REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND GEOGRAPHICAL MARGINALITY, Walter Leimgruber: Rich country – 'poor' regions: fighting regional disparities in Switzerland -- Tomasz Komornicki and Konrad Czapiewski: Economic Lagging and Regional Development – some narrative stories from Podkarpackie, Poland -- Jerzy Banski: The evaluation of local resources from the point of view of their role as factors underpinning development in the marginal regions of eastern Poland 16 -- Walter Leimgruber: Nature Parks: valorising regional potential. The example of the Gruyère Pays-d'Enhaut regional nature park -- Etienne Nel & Teresa Stevenson: Responding to Marginalization in Australia through regional and local action, with a specific focus on Western Australia -- PART 3: POLICIES, ACTIONS AND OTHER RESPONSES TO MARGINALITY, Toivo Muilu: Policies of sparsely populated rural areas in Finland -- Krystian Heffner, Agniesza Latocha: Desolated villages as example of spatial, economic and social marginalization in the Polish-Czech borderland -- Hugo Capella: Ibiza: A disrupting merge -- Raularian Rusu, Titus Man and Sandu Ciprian Moldovan: The impact of motorway building on the accessibility to marginal areas in the West Region of Romania. .