Sustainable Human Development: A New Territorial and People-Centred Perspective

243 Pages·2014·2.4 MB·English

by  Mario Biggeri

Sustainable Human Development

Sustainable Human
Development
A New Territorial and People-Centred
Perspective
Mario Biggeri
DepartmentofEconomicsandManagement,UniversityofFlorence
ARCO(ActionResearchforCO-development)Lab,UniversityofFlorence
Andrea Ferrannini
ARCO(ActionResearchforCO-development)Lab,UniversityofFlorence
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Contents
ListofIllustrations viii
Prologue x
Foreword xiii
Acknowledgements xvi
ListofAbbreviations xviii
Introduction 1
1 SustainableHumanDevelopment(SHD)attheLocalLevel 10
2 TheSustainableTerritorialEvolutionforHumanDevelopment
(STEHD)Framework 39
3 TheRoleofMultilevelGovernanceforSHDattheLocalLevel 69
4 InternationalDevelopmentCooperationattheLocalLevel:The
UNDPARTGlobalInitiative 88
5 EnablingFactorsforLocalEconomicDevelopment:Localand
RegionalDevelopmentAgencies 110
6 A“Policy-EnablingSpace”forSHDattheLocalLevel 129
7 FinalRemarksandFuturePerspectivesforSHDatthe
LocalLevel 147
AnnexA:ListofUNDPHumanDevelopmentReportsonLocal
DevelopmentIssues 156
Notes 163
References 175
AuthorIndex 200
SubjectIndex 206
vii
Illustrations
Figures
1.1 StructuralelementsshapingSHDatthelocallevel 21
A.1.1 SHDtrajectories:Highroad,lowroadanddirtroad 35
A.1.2 StrategicroutesforSHD 36
A.1.3 SHDtrajectoriesofselectedTuscanyProvinces,1998–2010 38
2.1 Astylizednon-dynamicrepresentationofaperson’s
capabilitysetandsocial/personalcontext 43
2.2 Astylizednon-dynamicframeworkforSHDat
thelocallevel 47
2.3 TheSTEHDframework:Astylizedevolutionaryframework
forSHDatthelocallevel 50
2.4 TheSTEHDframework:TheterritorialdynamicsofSHD
processes 57
3.1 TheSTEHDframework:Multilevelarticulationfosteringor
hamperingtheterritorialdynamicsofSHDprocesses 78
4.1 TheSTEHDframework:Traditionalbilateraland
multilateralaidstrategies 93
4.2 TheSTEHDframework:TheUNDPARTGlobalInitiative 94
4.3 TheSTEHDframework:UNDPARTprocessesenablingthe
SHDterritorialdynamics 97
4.4 ThemultilevelgovernanceframeworkofUNDPART
processes 101
5.1 TheSTEHDframework:LEDA’senablingprocessesforlocal
economicdevelopmentwithinanSHDperspective 116
5.2 TheregionofSumadijaandPomoravljeinSerbia 122
5.3 REDASP’sorganizationalstructure 123
5.4 TheregionalinnovationsysteminSumadijaand
Pomoravlje 125
6.1 TheSTEHDframework:Astylizedevolutionaryframework
forSHDatthelocallevel 131
6.2 TheSTEHDframework:Thenexusbetweenenterprises’
opportunitiesandindividualcapabilities 135
Tables
1.1 FromtheCAtoSHDatthelocallevel 29
A.1.1 Sub-dimensionsforanalysingtheSHDpatternsofTuscany
Provinces 37
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ListofIllustrations ix
2.1 Relevantissuescomposingtheproceduralapplicationofthe
STEHDframework 61
A.4.1 ThematrixfortheapplicationofanSFGDinNariño,
Colombia 108
5.1 ThemainfeaturesofLEDAs 113