Towards a sustainable, negotiated mode of strategic regional planning: a political economy perspective

Ian Gordon and Tony Champion

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Abstract: The need to give strategic direction to complex regional systems has never been greater, but reinstating a classic strategic plan model that failed to secure consistently positive impacts, or even sustain its own practice, is a mistaken route. With a mix of conceptual analysis, critical review of past experience and examination of population dynamics across England’s Wider South East and its fringes, this paper argues for a decentred form of strategic governance based on the development of a capacity for negotiated collaboration and realistic engagement with powerful market and institutional processes on a sustained basis.

Keywords: strategic regional planning; regional governance; metropolitan regions; migration; London; Wider South East (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R23 R50 R52 R58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 12 pages
Date: 2021-01-02
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Published in Regional Studies, 2, January, 2021, 55(1), pp. 115 - 126. ISSN: 0034-3404

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