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Frontmatter --Contents --Tables and Charts --Acknowledgments --PART I. PLANNING THEORY AND PUBLIC POLICY MAKING --PART II. POLICY FORMULATION: THE EVOLUTION OF REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS --PART III. POLICY ADMINISTRATION AND THE ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE OF URBAN REGIONS --PART IV. ORGANIZATIONAL INTERACTION AND PUBLIC POLICY MAKING --PART V. PLANNING AND COMPLEX DECISION MAKING --Index

International assistance programmes for developing countries are in urgent need of revision. Continuous testing and verification is required if development activity is to cope effectively with the uncertainty and complexity of the development process. This examines the alternatives and offers an approach which focuses on strategic planning, administrative procedures that facilitate innovation, responsiveness and experimentation, and on decision-making processes that join learning with action. A useful text for academics and practitioners in development studies, geography and sociology

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1 SPATIAL PLANNING AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT -- Concepts of Spatial Development -- Growth Pole Concept -- Functional-Spatial Integration -- Decentralized Territorial Approach -- A Conceptual Framework for Settlement Systems -- Roles of Settlements in Regional Development -- The Underdevelopment of Small Towns and Cities in Rural Regions -- Spatial Policy and Regional Development -- Notes -- 2 THE UFRD APPROACH TO REGIONAL PLANNING -- The Dimensions of Underdevelopment in Rural Regions -- Concepts Used in the UFRD Approach -- The Process of Spatial Analysis -- Characteristics and Principles of UFRD -- Notes -- 3 REGIONAL RESOURCE ANALYSIS -- Organizing a Regional Profile Analysis -- Regions as Agricultural Production Systems -- Regions as Core-Periphery Areas -- Regions as Economic and Trade Areas -- Regions as Integrated Resource-Production-Human Settlement Systems -- Inter-Regional Profiles -- Descriptive Statistical Measures -- Mix-and-Share Analysis -- Intra-Regional Profiles -- Descriptive Statistics -- Measures of Distribution and Association -- Location Quotients -- Level of Development Index -- Notes -- 4 ANALYSIS OF THE SETTLEMENT SYSTEM -- Morphological and Population Size Analyses -- Functional Analysis of the Settlement System -- Scale Analyses -- Scalograms -- Threshold Analysis -- Weighted Centrality Indexes -- Distribution of Functions and Delineation of Settlement Hierarchies -- Notes -- 5 SPATIAL LINKAGE ANALYSIS -- The Role of Linkages in Regional Development -- Market Center Studies -- Transportation Linkage Studies -- Social Interaction Linkage Studies -- Social Service Linkage Studies -- Political, Administrative and Organizational Linkage Studies -- Notes.

The growing public concern that private corporations should not only earn reasonable profits and provide fair returns to shareholders, but also operate as good corporate citizens and socially responsible organizations, has spread to the largest transnational corporations (TNCs), and seems to have been taken up by companies in both richer and poorer countries. Sustainable development calls for people and organizations to meet their present needs in such a way that does not hinder future generations' ability to do the same. Many TNCs are creating voluntary environmental programs to manage more effectively the environmental impacts of their plants, facilities, and operations. These initiatives are especially important in developing countries with hazardous environmental conditions, social conditions, and non‐existent or poorly implemented regulatory protection.