This volume describes and analyses aspects of economic development in Australia and its effect on the nation's cities and regions. Some of the topics discussed include the arrival of new technologies, structural adjustment, deregulation, population shifts, and the variations of households. The authors show how the nation's economic geography is being shaped by a range of processes that are leading to the uneven distribution of both people and jobs.

Australia's Changing Economic Geography: A Society Dividing (Meridian: Australian Geographical Perspectives)

Business & Money

O'CONNOR, Kevin

Stimson, Robert

Daly, Maurice

Economics

Oxford University Press

Fault Lines Exposed intends to understand inequality across Australian cities and towns. Social and economic change in Australia has resulted in the emergence of disparities in advantage and disadvantage between metropolitan communities and regional localities, towns and cities. In 1999 the book Community Opportunity and Vulnerability (Baum et al.) considered the disparities that existed between communities using 1996 census data. This new book, available both online and in print, uses up-to-date data to reanalyse the patterns and consider the important policy issues that arise from the patterns identified. Fault Lines Exposed provides insight into advantage and disadvantage at an aggregate community or locality level. Such insight is necessary to better understand what is happening in society. It helps in the planning of effective solutions to problems that impact not only on individuals and families but also on communities. Each of the chapters outlines the main findings from the typology of advantage and disadvantage. The book concludes with a strong policy orientation, addressing possible options and raising more policy questions. Fault Lines Exposed will be essential reading for academics, researchers, students, policy makers and other professionals working in the areas of geography, sociology, economics and social work.

Fault Lines Exposed: Advantage and Disadvantage Across Australia's Settlement System

History

Baum, Scott

Australia & Oceania

Monash University Publishing

Leadership and Institutions in Regional Endogenous Development (New Horizons in Regional Science series)

The authors of this comprehensive book provide a detailed rationale and original theory for the study of leadership and institutional factors, including entrepreneurship, in the growth and development of cities and regions. They demonstrate why leadership, institutions and entrepreneurship can - and indeed do - play a crucial enhancing role as key elements in the process of regional endogenous growth. 
The so-called 'new growth theory' emphasizes endogenous processes. While some of the literature refers to leadership and institutional factors, there has been little analysis of the explicit roles these factors play in the growth and development of cities and regions. This book remedies that gap, beginning with a brief overview of the evolution of the 'new growth theory' in regional economic development, in which the emphasis is on endogenous factors. The book then discusses leadership and institutional factors in that context, creating a new path for understanding regional economic development processes. Multiple case studies from different parts of the world illustrate the theoretical concepts.
Students and scholars in regional development, planning and public policy will find this volume invaluable.

Stough, Roger R.

Salazar, Maria

Reference

Edward Elgar Publishing

The authors of this comprehensive book provide a detailed rationale and original theory for the study of leadership and institutional factors, including entrepreneurship, in the growth and development of cities and regions. They demonstrate why leadership, institutions and entrepreneurship can -- and indeed do -- play a crucial enhancing role as key elements in the process of regional endogenous growth. The so-called 'new growth theory' emphasizes endogenous processes. While some of the literature refers to leadership and institutional factors, there has been little analysis of the explicit roles these factors play in the growth and development of cities and regions. This book remedies that gap, beginning with a brief overview of the evolution of the 'new growth theory' in regional economic development, in which the emphasis is on endogenous factors. The book then discusses leadership and institutional factors in that context, creating a new path for understanding regional economic development processes. Multiple case studies from different parts of the world illustrate the theoretical concepts. Students and scholars in regional development, planning and public policy will find this volume invaluable.Contents: Preface; 1. A New Perspective on Regional Endogenous Development; Part I: Developing a New Conceptual Model Framework for Endogenous Regional Economic Growth and Development: Incorporating Resource Endowments and Market Fit, Leadership, Institutional Factors and Entrepreneurship; 2. A New Conceptual Framework for Regional Endogenous Development; 3. Resource Endowments and Market Fit; 4. Leadership; 5. Institutions and Institutional Factors; 6. Entrepreneurship; Part II: Examples of Regional Development Initiatives Involving Leadership and Institutional Factors: Case Studies from North America, Europe and the Pacific Rim; 7. Case Studies from the United States; 8. Case Studies from Europe; 9. Case Studies from the Pacific Rim; 10. Modeling Endogenous Regional Economic Development: Measurement, Operational Issues and Conclusions References; Index

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