This paper explores ways in which the context of economic and social renewal in the aftermath of political conflict affects tourism development. The primary research took place in Bosnia and ...Herzegovina (B&H) and involved minimally structured interviews, participant observation and researcher reflexivity. The findings suggest that the administration and governance introduced to address political conflict in B&H needs to be reconsidered because it currently fails to achieve collaboration between divided communities. This failure impedes social and economic recovery. Nevertheless, the tourism industry appears to be ahead of other sectors in B&H in encouraging partnership between sides previously in conflict. Tourism is thus assessed as fertile ground for a more collaborative approach. It is concluded that in B&H, tourism development must go beyond economic regeneration and in its encouragement of joint projects between different stakeholders and communities it can aid reconciliation between its people.
► Critical research inquiry into post-conflict tourism development. ► Sustainable tourism development difficult due to lack of institutional support. ► Structural integration of peace as a prerequisite for tourism development. ► Tourism development needs politico-legal system support.
While the concept of 'lock-in' has been popular as a catch-all concept for explaining negative externalities associated with entrenched institutions in old industrial regions, recent research ...suggests a more nuanced account centred on path-dependent evolution. More specifically, regional economic development and restructuring might be better understood if lock-in is studied in relation to other potentially co-evolving processes, such as economic adjustment and renewal. The article indicates patterns of structural change and reported innovations, and the authors question how lock-in has co-evolved with various processes of adjustment and renewal in the old industrial area of the Grenland region in Norway, focusing on the period between 2000 and 2011. They pay specific attention to various measures of restructuring in the process manufacturing industry, the related mechanical manufacturing industry, and the emergence of a local information and communications technology (ICT) industry. While the Grenland region displays elements of economic lock-in and a continued dependence on process manufacturing, it has experienced substantial structural shifts that suggest regional renewal.
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BFBNIB, DOBA, IZUM, KILJ, NUK, PILJ, PNG, SAZU, UILJ, UKNU, UL, UM, UPUK
This article explores the challenges Jewish immigrants faced in establishing new lives and livelihoods in the West of Ireland at the end of the nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century. It ...argues that experiences of settlement by a minority community involved layers of complexity shaped by national interests and local encounters. Negotiating expectations of a nation pursuing political and economic independence raised challenges for Jewish migrants and refugees. This article highlights the delicate and tense relationship between the entrepreneurial hopes of Jewish businessmen and the nationalist economic discourse that politicized ideas of who was welcome in a national economy.
Max J. Skidmore reviews The Power of a Promise: Education and Economic Renewal in Kalamazoo by Michelle Miller-Adams, who analyzes extraordinary efforts by anonymous donors to combat poverty and ...enhance economic development—literally to create economic renewal—in that Michigan city.
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In this chapter, we argue for an essential dualism in the U.S. economy; there are simultaneously institutional sources of dynamism and institutional patterns that portend a process of decay ...and decline. This dualism corresponds to a growing divide between innovative small- and medium-sized enterprises and big corporations – both financial and nonfinancial – that are increasingly predatory in their business strategies. Surprisingly, firms on both sides of the divide are increasingly dependent on government. The small- and medium-sized firms rely heavily on government science and technology programs to help them innovate. The large firms need government to protect their position. Whether dynamism or decay will prove to be stronger, we think, is contingent on political choices that will be made over the next ten years. This contingency, in turn, makes it easier to understand the highly polarized nature of partisan politics in the United States today.
Max J. Skidmore reviews The Power of a Promise: Education and Economic Renewal in Kalamazoo by Michelle Miller‐Adams, who analyzes extraordinary efforts by anonymous donors to combat poverty and ...enhance economic development—literally to create economic renewal—in that Michigan city.
Introduction Colantonio, Andrea; Dixon, Tim
Urban Regeneration & Social Sustainability,
11/2010
Book Chapter
This chapter contains sections titled:
Background and context
Urban regeneration and social sustainability
Aims and objectives
Methodology for the research
Case study selection
Outline of the book
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