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Workshop by Neil McInroyJourney Into the Unknown conference
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Localism: Why is it important?
We need to cut down our environmental footprint
more globalised but we also crave authenticity and place identity
We live in a global economy but positive and negatives are felt locally
Effective governance operates at different scales, including very local, city/county, sub-regional, regional, pan regional, national etc,,
We increasingly want power spatially closer to us
We are a grossly centralised country
Societal opinion is moving in a localist direction?
Localism: What is policy saying?
More freedoms to local government and functional economies now and in the future
LSP’s, LAA’s and MAA’s and now LEP’s
White paper announced on region’s and economic development
Local government in the driving seat more
Flexible spatial geometry
Power to communities
The Holy grail is an increase in harnessing local wealth/taxes
All political parties are localist. Difference in emphasis/speed only?
General opportunities
Demand for regeneration etc is going up. Just when resources are decreasing!
There will be less cash for projects, but more power for local authorities in administering it?
Green economy/Green jobs?
More for less and can less be more?
Maybe new wave on regeneration initiatives as decline hits hard?
Will big society mean more or less opportunity for the VCS?
Resilience
Conceptual framework
Public economy
This refers to the value of public expenditure in an area and the way in which public expenditure impacts directly on the economy, e.g. procurement decisions on housing and health. Most direct way in which local authorities and partners impact on local economic development!
Social economy
This refers to the contribution that wider community activities make to the local economy through social enterprise, community infrastructure support and local community assets, e.g. community centres, halls etc.
Commercial economy
This refers to the contribution that “private” industry makes to the economy including traditional economic information about investment, local business support, business start up activity and it also considers the labour market, including causes of worklessness.
PORTLAND
• Planning laws which restrict urban growth
• An extensive and vibrant network of civic engagement
• A “local” feel, with some antagonism towards big business?
PORTLAND
PUBLIC
COMMERCIAL
SOCIAL
BROAD ECONOMIC CONTEXT
GOVERNMENT
WORKING WITHIN ENVIRONMENTAL LIMITS
LOCAL ECONOMIC TERRITORY
LOCAL IDENTITY AND CONTEXTHISTORY AND CULTURE
GDANSK
• A local govt working hard to attract business
• A reliance on EU funding
• A weakened social sector, following the break-up of Communism
GDANSK
PUBLIC
COMMERCIAL
SOCIAL
BROAD ECONOMIC CONTEXT
GOVERNMENT
WORKING WITHIN ENVIRONMENTAL LIMITS
LOCAL ECONOMIC TERRITORY
LOCAL IDENTITY AND CONTEXTHISTORY AND CULTURE
CULIACAN
• Local government bending over backwards for business
• State-level economic strategy, again dominated by business
• Little civic engagement
CULIACAN
PUBLIC
COMMERCIAL
SOCIAL
BROAD ECONOMIC CONTEXT
GOVERNMENT
WORKING WITHIN ENVIRONMENTAL LIMITS
LOCAL ECONOMIC TERRITORY
LOCAL IDENTITY AND CONTEXTHISTORY AND CULTURE
COIMBATORE
• Local government providing little more than services
• Impressive network of local NGOs
• Genuine corporate social responsibility, filling the gaps with NGOs
COIMBATORE
PUBLIC
COMMERCIAL
SOCIAL
BROAD ECONOMIC CONTEXT
GOVERNMENT
WORKING WITHIN ENVIRONMENTAL LIMITS
LOCAL ECONOMIC TERRITORY
LOCAL IDENTITY AND CONTEXTHISTORY AND CULTURE
TIME
Disturbance or change
Thriving
Resilient
Survived but weakened
Damaged
Timelines following a shock or disturbance
Resilient Robust relationships between the different spheres of the local economybeen developed in bold and innovative waysArea very well prepared to deal with economic, social and environmental shocks
Stable sound relationships between the different spheres of the local economy. adequate communication between the sectorsmore creative collaboration is required in order to strengthen local economic resilience
Vulnerable significantly underdeveloped relationshipsrelationships may be precarious. limited evidence of the sectors coming together
Brittle NO relationship between elements.Tension and conflict.
Scale of resilience
CLES research and work on place resilience
TIME
Response Recovery Learning
Locality with low place resilience
Readiness
Disturbance or change
TIME
Locality with medium place resilience
Disturbance or change
Readiness Response Recovery Learning
TIME
Locality with high place resilience
Readiness Response Recovery Learning
Disturbance or change
TASK
• Sketch out the economic story of your place in terms of the commercial, public and social economy.
• Draw the size of the three economies in your area
• How resilient is your economy? What are its strengths/weaknesses?
•What are the barriers for the social economy?
TASK
• From the same place you discussed, think of an environmental shock (flood, drought)
•What are the brittle, stable, vulnerable and resilient elements of your place?
• plot this in a line diagram?
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