Realigning Actors in an Urbanized World
Subtitle: Governance and Institutions from a Development Perspective
Contributors: I. S. A. Baud (Editor); J. Post (Editor)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: May 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 438
ISBN-13: 9780754633860
Subjects: Regional planning; Politics / Current Events; City planning; Business & Economics; Business/Economics; Urban policy; Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Dev.; Development economics; Development studies; International economics; Development - Business Development; Developing countries
First sentence: Since the beginning of the 1990s, the development market place has been swept by new concepts and strategies - participatory governance, partnerships, social capital, synergetic development, and collective learning, to name just a few - suggesting that the crisis of development is long passed.