12 October 2017
Interview with Eduardo Oliveira on Place Branding and Strategic Spatial Planning
Interview with Eduardo Oliveira on Place Branding and Strategic Spatial Planning
Eduardo Oliveira in this interview shares his experience of using place branding as a complementary instrument in strategic spatial planning. He also discusses the digital challenges of city and regional branding and the increasing role of social media in managing place reputation.
Learn about:
- Place branding as an instrument of strategic spatial planning;
- What a valuable place brand is;
- How local governance influences place branding;
- Destination marketing through social media: including travellers as co-creators and opinion-makers;
- Storytelling as a tool for place branding and examples of best practice;
- How place branding contributes to sustainable regional development.
http://placebrandobserver.com/interview-eduardo-oliveira/
Reposted: "The planning of tourism on rural areas: the stakeholders` perceptions of the Boticas municipality (Northeastern Portugal)"
All credits:J. Cadima Ribeiro
https://planeamentoterritorial.blogspot.ch/2017/10/the-planning-of-tourism-on-rural-areas.html
https://planeamentoterritorial.blogspot.ch/2017/10/the-planning-of-tourism-on-rural-areas.html
"The planning of tourism on rural areas: the stakeholders` perceptions of the Boticas municipality (Northeastern Portugal)"
Abstract
Most of the strategies developed to “save” rural territories in Europe have not been successful. One of the main problems has been the adoption of the top-down paradigm in the approach to the development of those territories. Portugal is a good example of the difficulty of adopting a bottom-up paradigm. The main objective of this paper is to present the perceptions of the local (including the residents) and regional stakeholders acting at Boticas towards the set of resources available and the development of the tourism industry. Boticas is a Northeastern Portuguese rural low density municipality. Capturing those perceptions, the research aims contributing to the establishment of a more integrated and innovative development strategy and, this way, a more able one in what concerns profiting from the potential associated to the growing of the tourism industry experienced lately by Portugal. The adoption of a mixed-method to proceed to the evaluation of the resources and capturing the perceptions on their tourist potential kept by the different stakeholders is suggested. Empirical data was collected through a survey applied to 373 of its residents and 25 interviews conducted to local and regional actors, supported by an inventory performed of the cultural resources and its capacity of being visited. We could conclude that residents tend to have a very positive perception towards tourism development and that their perceptions largely met the ones of other stakeholders.
Keywords: Rural Development; Tourism Planning; Perceptions; Resources; Tourist Attributes; Stakeholders.
Resumo de artigo publicado em European Countryside, Vol.9, Nº 3, 2017, págs. 504-525 [DOI: 10.1515/euco-2017-0030] (trabalho em co-autoria com Paula Remoaldo, Isabel Freitas, Olga Matos, Hélder Lopes, Maria Dolores Sánchez Fernández e Vitor Ribeiro).
11 October 2017
3 October 2017
16th meeting: Adaptive Planning for Spatial Transformation
Supporting cities and regions in being responsive to opportunities and threats that are yet unknown is a key challenge for the discipline of planning. Planners look for ways to guide urban transformations on the one hand, and on the other to strengthen the adaptive capacity of cities and regions to unforeseen effects, consequences, and events. While planners and governance experts often indicate the importance of this tension, this conference contributes to the still rudimentary debate on how planning strategies can effectively assist in resolving this tension.
Framed within a Complexity Science perspective, academics and professionals are invited to:
- DEVELOP analytical models and methods for mapping, comparing, simulating and evaluating, interactions between deliberate planning interventions and self-organised processes of change.
- ANALYSE non-linear urban and regional transformations and emergent socio-spatial configurations.
- IDENTIFY innovative and experimental planning strategies and projects that enable and constrain urban and regional adaptive evolution.
- PROPOSE ways to resolve the tensions in urban and regional development frameworks between allowing for experimentation and securing equality, seizing opportunities and avoiding risks, and strengthening responsiveness and promoting desired change.
Contributions that are empirically grounded, whether based on qualitative methods, quantitative methods or mixed-methods, are particularly welcomed.
Set up of the conference
The workshop is hosted by the Department of Spatial Planning and Environment, Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen, the Netherlands. The workshop will take place on May 23th-25th, 2018.
Next to a keynote, session presentations, and debates, it will also include a workshop on adaptive planning in Dutch planning practice. The conference will be free of charge.
Important dates
Deadline for submitting abstracts: 1st of November 2017
Date of notification of acceptance: 31st of November 2017
Deadline for submitting full papers: 15th of April 2018
Date of notification of acceptance: 31st of November 2017
Deadline for submitting full papers: 15th of April 2018
Abstract submissions (see guidelines) can be emailed to complexity@rug.nl.
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29 September 2017
Determinants of foreign direct investment: an institutional perspective (MSc Thesis)
Resumo
O Investimento Direto Estrangeiro (IDE) desempenha um papel, cada vez mais importante,
nas economias do mundo inteiro. Os IDE permitem aos países de acolhimento, um aumento
das trocas comerciais, a criação de pólos de competitividade, a transferência de tecnologia, a
modernização de empresas locais e a criação de emprego. Reconhecendo estes efeitos, as
economias em desenvolvimento implementam medidas de atratividade para beneficiar dos
IDE. A qualidade das instituições torna-se um fator que explica as diferenças entre os países;
uma melhor qualidade das instituições é um meio eficaz de atratividade de IDE. Este trabalho
tem como objetivo analisar a relação das variáveis institucionais com o IDE. Com base no
conjunto de mais de 200 países pelo período, aproximado, de 60 anos, encontraram-se
evidências de uma relação causal entre essas variáveis e o IDE. Para tal, recorre-se ao uso do
método dos dados em painel e os estimadores de efeitos fixos. Como variáveis explicativas
foram escolhidos diversos fatores, mas no caso das institucionais selecionaram-se
nomeadamente: corrupção, instabilidade política, peso do governo, a qualidade da moeda,
regulação dos mercados, os direitos de propriedade e a liberdade do comércio. Os resultados
apontam que o peso do governo é significativo, o que indica que as economias com menor
peso do governo apresentam maior participação do IDE no PIB. O mesmo acontece com o
acesso a uma moeda sã/segura e um menor peso da regulação dos mercados. No que diz
respeito ao arcabouço legal acerca dos direitos de propriedade e a liberdade do comércio,
estes não tendem a ter impacto sobre os IDE. E quanto ao sistema legal dos direitos de
propriedade, os resultados sugerem uma certa indiferença por parte do investidor em IDE.
Abstract
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) plays an increasingly important role in economies around the
world. FDI allows host countries to benefit from an increase in trade, the creation of centers
of competitiveness, technology transfer, modernization of local businesses and jobs.
Recognizing these effects, developing economies implement attractiveness measures to
benefit from FDI. The quality of institutions becomes a factor that explains the differences
between countries; a better quality of institutions is an effective mean of attracting FDI.This
paper aims to analyze the relationship between institutional variables and FDI. Based on the
set of more than 200 countries for the approximate period of 60 years, evidence of a causal
relationship between these variables and FDI was found. For this purpose, the panel data
method and the fixed effects estimators were used. As explanatory variables, a number of
factors were chosen, but in the case of institutional ones, the following were selected:
corruption, political instability, government size, quality of the money, market regulation,
legal system and property rights, and freedom of trade. The results indicate that the
government size is significant, which indicates that the economies with smaller governments
show greater share of FDI in GDP. The same is true for access sound money and for lighter
market regulation. With regard to the legal system and property rights and freedom of trade,
they do not tend to have an impact on FDI. And, as for the legal system of property rights, the
results suggest certain indifference from the foreign investors.
http://repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt/bitstream/1822/46530/1/Sylvia%20Ferreira%20dos%20Santos.pdf
http://repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt/bitstream/1822/46530/1/Sylvia%20Ferreira%20dos%20Santos.pdf
by Sylvia Ferreira dos Santos
25 September 2017
Arcplan invites authors interested in the exploration of urban design and planning in the Arab world
Arcplan invites authors interested in the exploration of urban design and planning in the Arab world to submit original works that include both empirical and theoretical research, although cross-boundary regional research is simultaneously appreciated. Arcplan also encourages ‘controversial’ discussions that raises lead threads on contemporary development challenges.
For more details please visit Arcplan website http://goo.gl/cjy43U
#ArcPlan #open_access #journal #arab_world #planning #urban_design #architecture #architects #design
21 September 2017
Post doctoral researcher project Branding as new governance tool (1,0 FTE, 4 years)
At the department of Public Administration and Sociology there is a vacancy for a post doc working on the field of new forms of governance especially branding in governance processes. The post doc will be employed for 4 years and be financed by two grants. First of all through a grant in the Vital Cities program of the Erasmus University and secondly additional founding will be secured through the EU funded research project Tropico. International research activities (possibly case studies but maybe also other research activities like experiments) are very likely to be part of the research.
Participating in two projects
Within the vital cities project the post doc will work on the theme branding as new governance tool to include citizens to tackle social problems. Brands, especially when created and sustained interactively, can create identity and a sense of belonging but also motivate other actors to co-operate in tackling social problems. In this research we explore the possibilities of branding for creating identity, enhancing participation and strengthening resilience by several research methods :
- case studies to explore the participation effect of branding
- Experiments to test the identity forming of branding
- Q sort research to test stakeholders perceptions on branding.
Valorization is secured by reaching out to the municipality of Rotterdam and connecting it to the new Faculty’s incubator GovernEUR.
The EU (2020) TROPICO project (Transforming into Open, Innovative and Collaborative Governments) aims to comparatively examine how public administrations are transformed to enhance collaboration in policy design and service delivery, advancing the participation of public, private and societal actors. It analyses collaboration in and by governments, with a special emphasis on the use of information and communication technologies (ICT), and its consequences. The post doc will especially work on the work packages that are aimed at Public Private Partnerships and democratic legitimacy (case studies and Qualitative Comparative analysis will be employed).
The post doc will work closely with other researchers on the two projects and be part of a larger research team that jointly works on research and research outputs. For the TROPICO research the post doc will cooperate with various researchers in other countries.
Finally, the postdoc will assist in teaching for the master programme.https://academicpositions.ch/ad/erasmus-university-rotterdam/2017/post-doctoral-researcher-project-branding-as-new-governance-tool-1-0-fte-4-years/104223
18 September 2017
The Place Dimension of Cities & Regions: Governance, Industrial Development & Sustainability
The abstract submission deadline has been extended until
21st September 2017. Below you will find the list of the confirmed
stellar line-up of plenary speakers for the conference.
Plenary
SpeakersProfessor Lisa de
Propris, University of Birmingham,
UKDr. Christian
Ketels, Harvard Business School,
USAMoray
Gilland, European Commission,
BelgiumProfessor Karen
Chapple, University of California, Berkeley,
USAJon
Potter, OECD, FranceProfessor David
Bailey, Aston University,
UK
RapporteurDr. Phil Tomlinson, University of Bath, UKPlenary ChairsMark Tewdwr-Jones, Newcastle University, UK
Sally Hardy, Regional Studies Association, UK
Sarah Ayres, University of Bristol, UK
Joan Fitzgerald, Northeastern University, USA
RapporteurDr. Phil Tomlinson, University of Bath, UKPlenary ChairsMark Tewdwr-Jones, Newcastle University, UK
Sally Hardy, Regional Studies Association, UK
Sarah Ayres, University of Bristol, UK
Joan Fitzgerald, Northeastern University, USA
Submission & Registration Details
RSA members benefit from a reduced members
rate and the non-members rate will include RSA membership for 1
year.
Please submit your abstract (250 words) through the Regional Studies Association conference portal by 21st September 2017. Please click here to see the Call for Papers, to read more about the conference please click here. Proposals will be considered by the Conference Programme Committee against the criteria of originality and interest, subject balance and geographical spread.
Please submit your abstract (250 words) through the Regional Studies Association conference portal by 21st September 2017. Please click here to see the Call for Papers, to read more about the conference please click here. Proposals will be considered by the Conference Programme Committee against the criteria of originality and interest, subject balance and geographical spread.
You may also wish to attend the annual
RSA President’s
Event (awards ceremony & dinner) which is taking
place on 16th November (the evening of the first day of the conference) in
London. Places are limited and pre-registration is essential.
7 September 2017
6 September 2017
Six farmers shot dead over land rights battle in Peru
Six farmers have been shot dead by a criminal gang who wanted to seize their farms to muscle in on the lucrative palm oil trade, according to indigenous Amazon leaders in Peru.
Local leaders in the central Amazon region of Ucayali say the victims were targeted last Friday because they had refused to give up their land.
A police report seen by the Guardian details how the farmers’ bodies were found early on Saturday dumped in a stream near the Bajo Rayal hamlet where the men had lived.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/sep/06/six-farmers-shot-dead-over-land-rights-battle-in-peru
1 September 2017
Governance Networks in the Public Sector
ONLINE NOW: Oliveira, E. (2017) Book Review - Governance Networks in the Public Sector.
Governance, 30(4): 732.734.
29 August 2017
24 August 2017
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21 August 2017
The main themes of the project relate to the role of indigenous peoples common land rights and how they impact on deforestation in the Argentinean Chaco in the province of Salta
About
This project is funded through the European Research Council Consolidator Grant Scheme, and runs over a five-year period from November 2016 until October 2021. The acronym stands for Indigenous Communities, Land Use and tropical Deforestation (INCLUDE).
Tropical deforestation is an important contributor to climate change, through the release of significant amounts of carbon in the atmosphere. The main proximate cause of deforestation is agricultural expansion, followed by resource extraction. This project will look at the problem of deforestation in the Argentinean dry Chaco in the province of Salta (the Chaco Saltenho). The Chaco Saltenho, part of the Great American Chaco (the second largest tropical forest in the American continent after the Amazon), experiences one of the fastest deforestation rates in the world (on average about 2 football fields per minute over 1970-2015), represents an important agricultural frontier (with over 6 million ha of forest left) and hosts significant ethnic and cultural diversity, including both ‘criollos’ (small scale livestock farmers of European descent) and indigenous peoples (IPs). The project, lasting 5 years, is structured around the following macro-objectives (work packages)
The Impact of Strategic Spatial Plans on Land Change in Urban Regions: Debating Plan-Making and Plan-Implementation
General description:
Within the CONCUR project ‘From plans to land change: how strategic spatial planning contributes to the development of urban regions’ the expert workshop ‘The Impact of Strategic Spatial Plans on Land Change in Urban Regions: Debating Plan Making and Plan Implementation’ (9th – 10thNovember) includes public lectures on Thursday, 9th November (09:00-15:00) by eight international experts. These experts will lecture on issues concerning strategic spatial planning, territorial governance and land-change science (further information on the order of the presentations will be soon available).
9:00 - 12:30
Public lectures by
· Frank Moulaert, The Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
· Gertrud Jørgensen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
· Raine Mäntysalo, Aalto University, Finland
· Jasper van Vliet, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
· Peter Schmitt, Stockholm University, Sweden
· Peter Austin, City of Oslo, Norway
· Thomas Houet, University Rennes, France
· Peter Verburg, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
13:45 - 15:00
Public lectures by
· CONCUR project team on the aims of the project and the preliminary theoretical model.
The final program will be soon available.
Please check the CONCUR project webpage regularly.
We look forward to seeing you.
9 August 2017
8 August 2017
Call for Paper: "Planning and Ideology", Journal "Planning Theory"
Call for Paper: "Planning and Ideology", Journal "Planning Theory"
The journal "Planning Theory" has launched a call for papers for a special issue on ideology and planning. Edited by Edward Shepherd, Andy Inch and Tim Marshall, this special issue starts from the premise that the significant analytical potential of the concept of ideology for planning thinking can only be realised if its role is brought to the fore of analysis. However, ideology has rarely been subject to sustained critical reflection within planning and there have been very few attempts to provide an overview of this terrain or to identify potential new directions for scholarship. The call invites contributions exploring the intersections of planning thought and practice with various approaches to ideology, seeking to bring together a range of papers that use the concept to cast light on different facets of the complex relationships between planning, politics and society.
Deadline for paper submission is 20th of October, 2017.
http://journals.sagepub.com/home/plt
18 July 2017
Special issue: Power/Knowledge in Natural Resource Management
Content of the special issue:
Power/Knowledge in Natural Resource Management
Editorial
The will to knowledge: natural resource management and power/knowledge dynamics
Kristof Van Assche, Raoul Beunen & Martijn Duineveld
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi
Article
Partnerships for development in the extractive sector: protecting subterranean interests?
Javier Arellano-Yanguas & María del Pilar Bernal-Gómez
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi
Article
Small-scale fisheries within maritime spatial planning: knowledge integration and power
Svein Jentoft
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi
Article
Natural capital and the political economy of wetland governance in Alberta
Marian Weber, Naomi Krogman, Lee Foote & Rebecca Rooney
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi
Power/Knowledge in Natural Resource Management
Editorial
The will to knowledge: natural resource management and power/knowledge dynamics
Kristof Van Assche, Raoul Beunen & Martijn Duineveld
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi
Article
Partnerships for development in the extractive sector: protecting subterranean interests?
Javier Arellano-Yanguas & María del Pilar Bernal-Gómez
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi
Article
Small-scale fisheries within maritime spatial planning: knowledge integration and power
Svein Jentoft
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi
Article
Natural capital and the political economy of wetland governance in Alberta
Marian Weber, Naomi Krogman, Lee Foote & Rebecca Rooney
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi
Article
Cat- alysing attunement
Jean Hillier
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi
Cat- alysing attunement
Jean Hillier
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi
Article
Governing the water user: experiences from Mexico
Edwin Rap & Philippus Wester
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi
Article
Power/knowledge and natural resource management: Foucaultian foundations in the analysis of adaptive governance
Kristof Van Assche, Raoul Beunen , Martijn Duineveld & Monica Gruezmacher
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi
Article
Materiality in natural resource management: a systems theory view
Vladislav Valentinov
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi
Place Branding and Marketing
The great moment when you open a newly published book and you have a chapter in it.
in memory of Prof. Sir Gregory Ashworth.
Handbook on Place Branding and Marketing
https://www.elgaronline.com/view/9781784718596.xmlChapter 2: A strategic spatial planning approach to regional branding: challenges and opportunities
https://www.elgaronline.com/view/9781784718596.00011.xmlin memory of Prof. Sir Gregory Ashworth.
Impact of planning mandates on local plans: a multi-method assessment
Original Articles
"Impact of planning mandates on local plans: a multi-method assessment"
by Sophie C. Rudolf, Simona R. Grădinaru & Anna M. Hersperger
Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Zürich, Switzerland
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09654313.2017.1353592
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09654313.2017.1353592
4 July 2017
Citizen Empowerment and Innovation in the Data-Rich City
Book Review:
Citizen Empowerment and Innovation in the Data-Rich City
Journal of Urban Technology
50 free downloads http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/CpN7RRVQw6UeKFS9gCd6/full
Citizen Empowerment and Innovation in the Data-Rich City
Journal of Urban Technology
50 free downloads http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/CpN7RRVQw6UeKFS9gCd6/full
26 June 2017
Handbook on Place Branding and Marketing - OUT NOW
Chapter 2: A strategic spatial planning approach to regional branding: challenges and opportunities
Eduardo Oliveira and Gregory J. Ashworth
This chapter critically scrutinizes the actual and potential roles of place branding as an instrument for the attainment of strategic spatial planning goals. The chapter also aims to critically discuss the challenges and opportunities of branding regions, a spatial scale seldom explored in academic and grey literatures. By presenting and discussing the challenges and opportunities involved in the process of branding regions, the chapter emphasizes the relevance and effectiveness of regional branding processes in supporting economic and social spatial realignment through the shaping of envisioned and collectively defined futures. Collectively defined futures, as the literature in both fields – place branding and strategic spatial planning – elucidates, requires the engagement and careful consideration of those whom a spatial strategy and ultimately a region brand must serve – the territory and those interacting with it. The involvement of key regional actors as well as community participation in strategic spatial planning and place branding strengthens the place brand independently of its scale of application. The chapter proceeds as follows. Firstly, it clarifies the authors’ understanding of place branding as an instrument for the attainment of strategic spatial planning goals. Secondly, civic and institutional participation is critically appraised in light of the literature of place branding and strategic spatial planning. Thirdly, it discusses the roles of strategic spatial planners in branding regions. Finally, the challenges and opportunities of branding regions are discussed and conclusions regarding such an approach are presented.
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