City region thinking, a zombie idea in regional and rural development? Scotland and Finland compared

Copus, Andrew; Kahila, Petri; Fritsch, Matti

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.11.019

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“…The conducted assessment of rural progression in Scotland and Finland has shown that rural development is more beneficial than further urban expansion [16]. The post-covid world is likely to call into question issues relating to urban development.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Developing a Strategy for Sustainable Rural Development in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Gusmanov¹,

Семин²,

Stovba³

et al. 2022

Pol. J. Environ. Stud.

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The present paper assesses the strategic significance of transition to the multifunctional vector of sustainable development for rural territorial entities. The study outlines perspective research areas to examine the phenomenon of sustainable rural development. The purpose of this study is to develop a methodological approach to the implementation of sustainable rural development strategy in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The goal of this study was achieved through the development and implementation of a comprehensive research project that combines the advantages of desk and field research. Designing a cluster scenario of sustainable rural development exploited a multidimensional statistical analysis, scenario forecasting and foresight methods. The study used a systematic approach focused on the main elements of rural areas, their exogenous and endogenous factors of functioning and interconnection, the current state, weaknesses and strengths in identifying strategic priorities for sustainable development. In turn, the system analysis relied on conducting explicit examination and evaluation, subsequent expertise, and working out a rural development strategy. Rural areas of the Non-Chernozem zone of the Republic of Bashkortostan were chosen to approve the developed methodological approach. The main findings of this study include: overview of the previous research on strategic planning of sustainable rural development; justification of the integrated application of presentday methods of economic research to take "mainstream" directions for functioning of rural territorial

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Developing a Strategy for Sustainable Rural Development in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Gusmanov¹,

Семин²,

Stovba³

et al. 2022

Pol. J. Environ. Stud.

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“…The deals in Scotland are for periods of between 10 and 15 years with the earliest for Glasgow and Inverness lasting 20 years and, despite being described as bespoke, appear to be menu driven. Funding is provided jointly by the UK and Scottish governments (Copus et al, 2022) with constituent local authorities being expected to commit contributions to their programmes. The narrative of the deals is economic in character and, unlike the deals in England, there is no mention of devolution of powers to local authorities.…”

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“…Between 2014 and 2020, twelve deals have been agreed covering all 32 of Scotland’s local authorities, with the use of ‘growth’ replacing the term ‘city’. As Copus et al (2022) state, there appeared some initial determination of the areas of these deals related to functional economic areas with the later growth deals appearing to be catching up or filling in remaining areas of rural territory. In their structure and governance arrangements, the deals are managed by a mixture of models – partnership boards for some and local authorities for others.…”

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Deals and devolution: The role of local authority deals in undermining devolved decision making

Morphet¹

2022

Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit

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The introduction of the devolved administrations (DAs) in the UK in 1999 was based on specific legal powers for this new scale of governance which included control of national and local priorities for expenditure within devolved matters. The legal powers conferred on these administrations included freedoms to determine expenditure within budgets which, in the case of DAs, included specific allocations linked to the Barnett Formula ensuring proportional allocations of UK state expenditure in a range of policy areas and later in the DAs, powers were provided to allow direct access to borrowing and raising funding through a range of means. In the period 1999–2014, DA powers were gradually increased, first in Scotland then in Wales and Northern Ireland. However, since 2014, in the DAs, UK Central Government has been using the provision of local and sub-regional ‘deal’ funding models, controlled by Whitehall, to gradually undermine this devolved decision making. This article discusses the role devolution and deals within the context of increasing EU principles of subsidiarity and the exercise of the UK Government’s de facto and de jure powers in response. It examines the role of deals in the DAs and their lack of accountability within the UK state.

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“…These inequalities have however attracted relatively little attention in Scottish policy discourse, and strategic approaches to economic development have instead been primarily concerned with national aggregate performance. Since the abolition of semi-autonomous Local Enterprise Companies (LECs) in 2007, Scottish Enterprise (SE; the economic development agency for most of Scotland) has focused on supporting high-growth businesses and projects of national importance, while ‘city region thinking’ (Copus et al, 2021) has become increasingly influential. At the same time, Local Authority (LA) budgets have been squeezed by fiscal austerity.…”

Section: South Of Scotland Enterprisementioning

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New regions in the periphery: Agency and politics in shaping the governance of regional development in the Scotland–England border region

Clelland

2022

Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit

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The restructuring of sub-national economic governance has been one response to persistent regional inequalities; in the United Kingdom, this has entailed a rescaling of strategic economic governance around city-regions. The variety of ‘left behind’ places, however, also includes peripheral and non-urban regions, prompting actors across different scales to seek arrangements for those places outside the city-regional paradigm. This paper provides insights into these processes through tracing the emergence of two new and overlapping spaces of governance in the largely rural South of Scotland, and across a larger area also including the far North of England. While driven by top-down priorities of the centre, new spaces are created through political processes contested across multiple scales, layered onto existing arrangements. These episodes demonstrate how regional actors exercise agency in shaping governance arrangements by articulating regional problems, and proposed responses, with political concerns of the centre. They also indicate the potential for dominant approaches, based on city-regional imaginaries, to be challenged. New regions offer at least the potential for actors in the periphery to secure resources for place-based development, within a fragmented and competitive landscape. They may however prove to be transient, requiring ongoing coupling of regional and central interests to be maintained.

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City region thinking, a zombie idea in regional and rural development? Scotland and Finland compared

Cited by 11 publications

References 17 publications

Developing a Strategy for Sustainable Rural Development in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Developing a Strategy for Sustainable Rural Development in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Deals and devolution: The role of local authority deals in undermining devolved decision making

New regions in the periphery: Agency and politics in shaping the governance of regional development in the Scotland–England border region

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