Regional Policy DSS: Result Indicators Definition Problems

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Organizational, Business, and …, 2010

European Regional Policy produced several generations of programmes at both National and Regional levels. Such a complex framework tends to increase multi-level governance in the period 2007-2013, promoting a wider participation of stakeholders (including Public Administration, Local Communities, Enterprises, etc). This process has been usually accompanied by e-tools for the management of bottom-up processes, with several instances related to common problems of participation processes. Communication between "programmer" and categories of beneficiaries always presented weakness due to the ineffective system of management knowledge within the process. Relevant issues in the framework of regional development programmes are: Do stakeholders understand the meaning of general and sectoral policies? Are citizens aware of technical instruments implementing such policies? Are they conscious of ex-ante comprehensive context analysis and/or can they share possible future scenarios? A way to tackle these problems is the use of ontologies. In this work we present the structural elements of the ontology of regional development programmes analyzing major steps of the ontology design and nodal phases of the ontology building (i.e. consensus on relations and restrictions, switch from glossary to taxonomy). The result of such an application is an ontology of regional development containing more than one hundred classes.

2016

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2014

RAMEA is a Regional NAMEA, an environmental accounting system which combines economic accounts (measured in monetary terms) and environmental accounts (measured in physical units) into a single framework useful for the evaluation of the integrated economic-environmental-social performance of regions. Here we restrict our attention to the economic-environmental issues. RAMEA can be used as a decision support system, to inform and help regional policy-makers to identify and to quantify potential environmental and economic impacts associated with regional development policy measures. RAMEA’s framework is based on a well established approach (UN and Eurostat Guidelines) and robust data from official statistics: it is coherent with similar tools at national level (NAMEA) and compiled in a relatively inexpensive way, deriving its numbers from national and regional accounts. RAMEA allows analysing the pressures placed on the environment by the economic sectors and households, with the poss...

Australian Journal of Public Administration, 2003

Whole-of-government approaches to policy development are increasingly seen as critical in developing comprehensive understanding of issues and development of policies. This article argues that cooperative approaches to using and understanding information are as important as cooperative approaches to policy development and implementation. In August 2002 the Victorian government released Regional Matters: An Atlas of Regional Victoria which was the result of whole-of-government collaboration. The publication provided a review of regional issues across a wide range of topics. This article highlights both the opportunities and challenges of a whole-of-government approach using the experience of this Regional Atlas project. This article also puts forward some lessons that may be used to enhance whole-of-government approaches to research and information provision.

Geoforum, 2000

This paper is concerned to explore the role of concepts in regional development. It attempts to apply some of the lessons of recent work in organisational theory and science and technology studies to the field of regional development studies.

Proceedings of INTCESS 2022- 9th International Conference on Education & Education of Social Sciences, 2022

Integrated territorial investments are a fundamentally new approach to the implementation of regional policy. The approach requires decentralization of the decision-making process and active participation of citizens in this process. The bottom-up approach involves identifying the needs of the community and looking for alternatives to meet those needs. The choice of the best alternative, ie. the choice of a specific measure or project implies the application of adequate working mechanisms to ensure the involvement of the general public. There are various theories about how to encourage and motivate citizens to participate in public decisions that have a direct impact on them and their way of life. Different strategies and approaches are applied, their effectiveness is different, and it is difficult to find a universal solution. The aim of this article is to bring out the main theoretical and conceptual issues related to the role, importance, tools for civic participation in public policy-making processes in general and in relation to regional policy in particular. On this basis, an iterative model for applying the bottom-up approach to inclusion in integrated planning will be proposed. Content analysis of documents and empirical research will outline the main steps that would be useful in the process of decentralization and promoting participation. Based on the deduction and induction, the main barriers and limiting factors will be identified, which so far hinder the more active participation of civil society, business and other organizations in the process of making decisions for regional development. The aim is to outline the main groups of constraints and to suggest possible reactions to them. The framework for decentralization of the process of regional development and stakeholder involvement will be outlined, as well as good practices, existing hypotheses about the commitment of public institutions to ensure inclusion, opportunities to build an environment that ensures a high degree of integration of public policies.

International Journal of Criminology and Sociology, 2020

The article is devoted to certain aspects of normative-legal regulation of regional development. In the conditions of transformation processes, transition to the European integration vector of development, change of the system of regional management by means of reform of decentralization there is a question of maintenance of effective development of regions. Adoption and implementation of management decisions is a key factor in ensuring harmonious sustainable development. In the absence of a clear comprehensive structure of distribution of powers between authorities at different levels, there are problematic aspects of providing information and analytical support for management decisions. The interaction of different branches of government and authorities at different levels is inefficient. The basis for establishing an effective management system at the regional level is the development of a regulatory framework that would ensure a clear division of responsibilities and powers of the authorities to address certain socio-economic, social, environmental and other issues inherent in the level of regional development. Compliance of the regulatory framework with today's requirements, the changes and transformations taking place in the country, world practices and international regulations is a priority to ensure effective decision-making and implementation of management decisions to create opportunities for regional development. The article analyzes the structure of management decisions at the regional level, taking into account the transformation processes in the system of regional governance associated with decentralization reform. The article develops ways to improve the development management system at the regional level.

2010

The sectors include high-, medium-and low-tech companies. An assumption here was that the sectors would represent different kinds of knowledge dynamics in both goods and service production. However, it is important to stress that the predefined sectors were only meant as a basis for the empirical case study, and we see that many innovations and knowledge interactions tend to occur across sectors.

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This paper presents a methodology to evaluate both the coherence and the strategic value of a program of regional development. It also shows an empirical application to a real case. Only the basic aspects of the methodology will be presented, those which are focused in the individual valuation of the degree of synergy inherent in the objectives (or actions) between them, using a Delphi technique. A Weights Matrix can be constructed through it according to the degree of synergy assigned to different objectives (actions). Taking as a base this previous matrix and also using the hierarchical conglomerates analysis as a complementary technique, it is possible to set up a ranking of the objectives which serve as a medium to appreciate the strategic value inherent in the proposed programming. Then, the objectives can be differentiated as basic, intermediate, final or independent according with their degree of influence or dependence. The Community Support Framework 1994-1999 for the Spanish objective 1 regions serves as a mean to illustrate the methodological application.

2011

The point of focus of this chapter is the growing importance of regions in international relations. The chapter adopts an institutional social constructivist approach, wherein international regions are considered the political constructs of states. After a discussion of both the advantages and the shortcomings of the complementary concepts of 'regional integration' and 'regional cooperation,' the chapter then argues that the concept of 'regional governance' is the most adequate term for capturing the variations in regionalism. Regional governance is a sufficiently broad and flexible concept that it can be satisfactorily used to grasp the variable interaction patterns between different regional organizations. Since most regions feature more than just one regional organization, these institutions will often overlap with regard to their mandates and/or membership – which can lead to either conflict or cooperation. With the objective in mind of systematizing the study of the interaction patterns between regional organizations, the chapter develops an analytical scheme and a taxonomy to differentiate between various types of regional governance – synergistic, cooperative, conflictive and segmented.