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Spatial Dimensions of Public Policy
About this book
Spatial Dimensions of Public Policy deals with the spatial dimensions of public policy with particular reference to resource management, urban development, regional development, and poverty alleviation. Emphasis is on the geographer's actual and potential contributions to public policy.Comprised of 15 chapters, this book begins with an introduction to the nature of geographers' contributions to public policy and the reasons why they have not been as effective as the relationships between their interests and important issues of public policy might suggest. The next chapter describes how policy decisions are made in Canada and reviews the nature of disciplinary contributions to governmental decision-making at the highest level. Subsequent chapters focus on regional policy and broad issues of world strategy; specific contributions to public policy, particularly in the United Kingdom; spatial aspects of pollution policy; and policies outside the United Kingdom. Energy policy in Western Europe is discussed, together with a geographer's contribution to addressing environmental problems in New Zealand; the difficulties of achieving an accurate population census of Nigeria; and the reshaping of the legislative and congressional districts of the State of Washington.This monograph will be of interest to geographers and public policymakers.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Spatial Dimensions of Public Policy
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- CONTRIBUTORS
- PREFACE
- CHAPTER 1. GEOGRAPHY AND PUBLIC POLICY: CHALLENGE, OPPORTUNITY AND IMPLICATIONS
- CHAPTER 2. POLICY PLANNING IN THE GOVERNMENT OF CANADA
- CHAPTER 3. GEOGRAPHY AND PUBLIC POLICY ISSUES IN CANADA
- CHAPTER 4. THE GEOGRAPHER AS POLITICIAN
- CHAPTER 5. ACADEMICS AND GOVERNMENT
- CHAPTER 6. THE GEOGRAPHER AND POLICY-MAKING IN MARGINAL RURAL AREAS: THE NORTHERN PEN NINES RURAL DEVELOPMENT BOARD
- CHAPTER 7. RESEARCH AND POLICY IN OUTDOOR RECREATION: THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE TOURISM AND RECREATION RESEARCH UNIT
- CHAPTER 8. CONTACT STUDIES AND DECENTRALISATION OF OFFICES FROM LONDON AND STOCKHOLM
- CHAPTER 9. THE SPATIAL DIMENSIONS OF POLLUTION POLICY
- CHAPTER 10. ENERGY POLICIES IN WESTERN EUROPE AND THE GEOGRAPHY OF OIL AND NATURAL GAS
- CHAPTER 11. A GEOGRAPHER IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT IN NEW ZEALAND
- CHAPTER 12. THE POPULATION CENSUS OF NIGERIA, 1973
- CHAPTER 13. THE GEOGRAPHIC IMAGINATION AND POLITICAL REDISTRICTING
- CHAPTER 14. THE GEOGRAPHERS' CONTRIBUTION TO REGIONAL POLICY: THE CASE OF SWEDEN
- CHAPTER 15. ACHIEVEMENT AND PROSPECTS
- INDEX