Regional Development and Forgotten Spaces

Global Policy Experiences and Implications

María del Carmen Sánchez-Carreira, Paulo Jorge Reis Mourão, Bruno Blanco-Varela, María del Carmen Sánchez-Carreira, Paulo Jorge Reis Mourão, Bruno Blanco-Varela

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781032041070
• eBook ISBN: 9781000907643
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Development Economics
• Index: Business

This book constitutes a novel contribution, combining recent theoretical developments and empirical contributions, as well as the recent and latest trends and challenges on the issue of Forgotten Spaces. Forgotten Spaces - like the Forgotten Regions, in particular - are spaces that in potential can and do create significant value (if their resources are properly rediscovered) and create many potential costs (if these spaces are increasingly neglected by economic agents). The editors have identified a gap in current research because there is not enough empirical evidence about these places, as well as about the role of their actors.

Abandoning regions can lead to, for example, pollution, uncontrolled forest fires, vandalism heritage deterioration, and potentially untreated industrial facilities, carrying potential costs not only in environmental sustainability, but also in values such as landscape aesthetics.

Thus, this book reflects on the dimensions of the identification of such Forgotten Spaces, on the design of policies focused on minimizing associated costs and on the scope of programs to promote these areas, not only for upgrading them but also for promoting their environmental sustainability. The comparative approach of the empirical part also allows knowledge and experience from diverse longitudes and latitudes. The editors highlight the richness of the experience of Latin American countries, the polarization and interesting experiences from several sector rediscovered in Europe, as well as the holistic cases coming from several African experiences.

This book will attract the attention of academicians, politicians and ultimately the attention of all decision-makers who most likely are forgetting many of the Spaces around them.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of figures
• List of tables
• List of contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: the Forgotten Regions and Spaces
• Part I Regional Development and policies for Forgotten Spaces in Africa
• Part II Regional Development and policies for Forgotten Spaces in Brazil
• Part III Other experiences in Latin America
• Part IV Other experiences of global Forgotten Spaces
• Conclusions: Regional Development and policy implications for global forgotten places
• Index