Local development: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 20:39, 19 October 2015

Latest revision as of 16:44, 7 January 2022

(14 intermediate revisions by 10 users not shown)

Line 1:

{{short description|Theory in social sciences}}

The '''localLocal development''' basesis a relatively young theory in social sciences based on the identification and use of the resources and endogenous potentialities of a [[community]], neighbourhood, city, municipality or cityequivalent.<ref>Montoya A. (1998). ¿Desarrollo local o desarrollo Comunitario? ''Realidad'' No. 61, enero-febrero de 1998. ISSN-e: 1991-3516</ref><ref>Alburquerque, F. Metodología para el Desarrollo Económico Local, Dirección de Desarrollo y Gestión Local. </ref>

The local development approach considers the endogenous potentialities of eachterritories. territory, the economicEconomic and nonon economic factors, betweeninfluence theselocal lastdevelopment itprocesses. canAmong bethe mentionednon theeconomic socialfactors, resourcessocial, cultural, historical, institutional, landscape,and etc.geographical Allaspects thesecan factors are alsobe decisive in the process of local [[economic development]].<ref>ALBUQUERQUE, Francisco, Llorens Juan y Del Castillo Jaime (2002). "Estudio de casos de desarrollo económico local en América Latina". Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo, Departamento de Desarrollo Sostenible, Washington D.C.</ref>

== Definition ==

In this perspective, itlocal willeconomic bedevelopment ablecan tobe definedefined as the local economic development like thea process of transformation of the local economy and of the local society, oriented to surpass the difficulties and existent challenges,. thatIt looks forseeks to improve the conditions of life of hislocal population by means of an action decided andactions concerted between the different local socioeconomic agents, publicssocial, public and private, fortowards the morean efficient and sustentablesustainable use of the existent endogenous resources.<ref>HELMSING B. (2001). "Partnerships, byMeso-institutions meansand ofLearning. theNew promotionlocal ofand theregional capacitieseconomic ofdevelopment localinitiatives entrepreneurshipin andLatin theAmerica". creation Institute of someSocial innovativeStudies, surroundingsThe in theHague, territoryNetherlands.</ref> In this approach it is also considered , the importance of the social capital and the links of cooperation with external agents to capture human resources, techniciansmonetary and monetary,technical among others, thatresources contribute to the local development strategy.<ref>Pike A. (2007). "What Kind of developmentLocal (Pikeand etRegional alDevelopment and for Whom?" ''Regional Studies'', Vol. 2006)41.9, pp. 1253–1269, December 2007. DOI: 10.1080/00343400701543355</ref>

== Examples ==

There exist many international institutions (Foundation [[Dag Hammarskjöld]], FLACSO-Academic Headquarters Guatemala and Costa Rica, the Centre for the Local Development of the OCDE) and other of national character in different countries of the world abocadasdevoted to improve the conditions of life of the local spaces by means of this approach of the development. BetweenAmong some authors whose work influences in this approach of the development it can findbe found [[Manfred Max Neef|Manfred Max-Neef.]] His texts "The barefoot economy" and "Development to scale Human" are a good example of this.

== References ==

{{Template:Reflist}}3. Pike, To., Rodriguez-Pose, To. and Tomaney, J., 2006. Local and Regional Development. New York : Routledge.

== See also ==

Line 17 ⟶ 15:

* [[Economic development]]

* [[Rural development]]

* [[Localism (politicalpolitics)]]

* [[Local development plan]]

* Plan of local development

== References ==

{{Reflist}}

== External links ==

* [http://www.observalocaloecd.comorg/cfe/leed/trentocentre.htm ObservatoryOECD ofLEED RuralTrento DevelopmentCentre Venuefor andLocal EmploymentDevelopment]

* [httphttps://wwwweb.andaluciasosteniblearchive.org/web/20140104213308/http://observalocal.com/ Basic ProjectsObservatory of Sustainable LocalRural Development inVenue Andaluciaand Employment]

* [http://www.ceidir.org/ Local development from below]

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160109090617/http://andaluciasostenible.com/ Basic Projects of Sustainable Local Development in Andalucia]

* [http://www.innovacionsocial21.org/ Local development and Social Innovation]

* Analysis of the relation between cooperatives, culture and local development

* [http://www.flacso.or.cr/ FLACSO - Costa Rica]

* [http://www.dhf.uu.se Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation]

* [http://www.ceidir.org/ Local development from below]

* OECD, Trento Centre for Local Economic Development

[[Category:Community]]

[[Category:Social change]]