Vital coalitions, vital regions partnerships for sustainable regional development (Wageningen Academic Publishers, 2010)
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Chapter 1. Introduction and research questions / Ina Horlings -- Chapter 2. Creating capacity to act and sustainability in rural-urban regions: problem analysis / Ina Horlings -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Regional development and planning in the Netherlands -- 2.3. Scenarios for sustainable rural development -- 2.4. Experiences with region-oriented policy and self-governance in the Netherlands -- 2.5. Introducing the concept of regimes -- 2.6. Problems with public-private co-operation in regimes -- 2.7. Can vital coalitions create capacity to act in regional development processes? -- 2.8. Creating sustainability in the interaction between regimes and vital coalitions -- 2.9. Summary and conclusions -- References -- Chapter 3. New concepts for studying regional development / Julien van Ostaaijen -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Urban regimes and vital coalitions: forms of policy networks -- 3.3. urban regime concept -- 3.4. Vital coalitions --
- 3.5. Regional regimes and vital coalitions -- 3.6. Summary -- References -- Chapter 4. Pathways for sustainable regional development: strategies and vital coalitions / Ina Horlings -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Methodology -- 4.3. Innovative ways of increasing the scale of land-based agriculture -- 4.4. Decoupling and industrial ecology -- 4.5. Multifunctional agriculture -- 4.6. Rural-urban integration -- 4.7. Types of coalitions -- 4.8. Contribution to sustainable development -- 4.9. Stimulating and hindering factors in regional development -- 4.10. Towards a new regional paradigm in rural-urban regions? -- 4.11. Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 5. Vitality and values: the role of leaders of change in regional development / Ina Horlings -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Methodology -- 5.3. role of leadership in sustainable regional development -- 5.4. Leadership types and tasks -- 5.5. Leadership capabilities -- 5.6. Value-oriented leadership --
- 5.7. Leaders of change in regional projects in the Netherlands -- 5.8. Empirical findings: a typology of leaders of change in Dutch regional projects -- 5.9. Conclusions: towards value-oriented leadership -- References -- Chapter 6. New Markets in Heuvelland: coalition building and agenda setting / Noelle Aarts -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. Issue development -- 6.3. Constructing coalitions without a sense of direction -- 6.4. 'constructed power' of the provincial government -- 6.5. Self-organisation and synchronicity -- 6.6. Conclusion and discussion -- References -- ch. 7 Conditions for vital coalitions in regional development / Hetty van der Stoep -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. Vitality of the studied 'vital coalitions' -- 7.3. Conditions for vital coalitions -- 7.4. interrelations between the conditions -- 7.5. Regime-coalition interplay and reflection on the theory -- 7.6. Recommendations -- 7.7. Summary -- References