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2022/2023

Local and Regional Development

Code: 104264 ECTS Credits: 6
Degree Type Year Semester
2503710 Geography, Environmental Management and Spatial Planning OT 4 1

Contact

Name:
Montserrat Pallares Barbera
Email:
montserrat.pallares@uab.cat

Use of Languages

Principal working language:
catalan (cat)
Some groups entirely in English:
No
Some groups entirely in Catalan:
Yes
Some groups entirely in Spanish:
No

Teachers

Esteve Dot Jutglā

Prerequisites

There are no specific requirements to take this course.

Objectives and Contextualisation

This course offers a critical approach to local and territorial development from the reality that imposes for the territory and its population three current challenges: 1) the climate and environmental crisis, 2) the growing inequalities in the distribution of wealth; and 3) the fourth revolution linked to the role of new technologies and artificial intelligence.
										
											The course has three main objectives: 1) to critically examine the concept of development in general and local / regional development from different theories and practices, 2) to understand the dynamics of the local economy within the conditions imposed by economic, environmental and energy changes , 3) explore new economic models that raise local development from an ethical and eco-centered position. Classes will combine theoretical, practical and discussion format.

Competences

  • Apply the basic regional, environmental and urban legal regulations for regional and environmental planning.
  • Draw up action and intervention plans in the territory which respond to sociodemographic and environmental problems.
  • Generate innovative and competitive proposals in professional activity.
  • Students must be capable of applying their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional way and they should have building arguments and problem resolution skills within their area of study.
  • Students must develop the necessary learning skills to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Generate innovative and competitive proposals in professional activity.
  2. List the different theoretical theories of local development.
  3. Students must be capable of applying their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional way and they should have building arguments and problem resolution skills within their area of study.
  4. Students must develop the necessary learning skills to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.
  5. Understand the basic regulations for questions of mobility, housing and development.

Content

1) The current challenges of local development: environmental, social, and economic crisis.
2) The concept of local development. Origins, evolution, and new formulation.
3) The Community Economies in the Anthropocene era. Case studies and experiences.
4) The policies and strategic lines of urban development of the last decades.
5) Local development linked to tourism: experiences, opportunities, and deficiencies.
6) Local development linked to the knowledge economy and the smart city: experiences, opportunities, and shortcomings.
7) Local development and climate change. What does the case of the Llobregat Delta tell us?
8) The role of the public sector in local development.
9) Expanding the concept of what local development is and its scale: the metropolitan region of Barcelona and the Barcelona 2030 Strategic Plan.
10) The Foundational Economy: what it is and what it brings us for local development.
11) The feminist economic geography critique to local development in historical perspective.

Methodology

Theoretical classes will be complemented with fieldwork on real research projects, which will allow students to reflect on the problems and difficulties posed by local development.
Students will have to build in parallel to the teaching sessions an original research project as part of the training process in this subject. It will be compulsory to read a series of basic texts on theories in local development and practical experiences.
The learning process and acquisition of skills will be supervised by the teacher through individual and/or group tutorials. The teachers of the subject will be available to students to resolve doubts and follow the evolution of the aforementioned process of learning and acquisition of skills.

Detailed work program based on the community economy with the active participation of students:
Phase: Epistemological Reflection
Action: Co-production / adaptation of concepts related to the Community Economies school of thought.

Phase: Methodological Reflection
Action: Co-production / adaptation of indicators/variables (example: work, company, etc.) of the Community Economies school of thought.

Phase: Learning Method
Action: Co-production of images and development of arguments from interrogating diverse visual productions in relation to texts and economic practices.

Phase: Discussion and Design Sheets
Action: Elaboration of the design of the cards from the collaboration and co-production of points 1, 2 and 3.

Phase: Share proposals
Action: Discussion with online students from other countries/disciplines and reformulation of worksheets.

Phase: Research ethics and case study identification
Action: Ethical introduction to research, and identification of case studies and justification.

Phase: Fieldwork
Action: Carrying out fieldwork

Phase:  Discussion
Action: Discussion in class material sheets, completion of fieldwork, and start writing.

Phase: Elaboration of Academic and Training Material
Action: Preparation of dossier

Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.

Activities

Title Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Type: Directed      
Field Trips 8 0.32 1, 4, 3
Practicum 8 0.32 1, 4, 3
Theoretical Classes 28 1.12 2, 1, 4, 3
Type: Supervised      
Tutorial 10 0.4 2, 1, 4, 3
Type: Autonomous      
Project 50 2 2, 1, 4, 3
Readings 20 0.8 2, 1, 4, 3
Study 11.5 0.46 2, 1, 4, 3

Assessment

The evaluation will consist of:
a. Final exam (40% mark)
b. Material elaborated by the student and active participation (20%)
c. Research project (40%)

On carrying out each evaluation activity, lecturers will inform students (on Moodle) of the procedures to be followed for reviewing all grades awarded, and the date on which such a review will take place.


This subject aims to follow a method of continuous assessment. There will be a reevaluation for those students who have not passed the course and have followed the course activities regularly.
Only those students who have taken the exam, have submitted the course work, and have not passed will be entitled to re-assessment.
When it is considered that the student has not been able to contribute sufficient evidence (30%) to be evaluated will have: nograde.

Plagiarism

The copying or plagiarism of material, both in the case of work and in the case of exams, constitutes a crime that will be punished with a zero to the activity. In case of recidivism, the whole subject will be suspended.
Remember that a work that reproduces all or most of the work of another classmate is considered a "copy". “Plagiarism” is the act of presenting all or part of a text by an author as one’s own, without citing sources, whether on paper or in digital format. See UAB documentation on "plagiarism" at: http://wuster.uab.es/web_argumenta_obert/unit_20/sot_2_01.html.

Assessment Activities

Title Weighting Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Development of content and active participation in class 20% 10 0.4 5, 2, 1, 4, 3
Grup Project Presentations 40% 3 0.12 2, 1, 4, 3
Test 40% 1.5 0.06 2, 1, 4, 3

Bibliography

ALBURQUERQUE, Francisco (2013) "Economía del Desarrollo y Desarrollo Territorial" http://www.delalburquerque.es/images/subidas/E%20Desarrollo%20y%20Desarrollo%20Territorial%203.0.pdf

BLAKELY Eduard J. and BRADSHAW, Ted K. (2003) Planning Local Economic Development. London: Sage Publications.

CASELLAS, Antònia (2018) "Nous Reptes, Reflexions i Propostes per un Desenvolupament Local Sostenible" Col.lecció Eines. Elements d'Innovació i Estratègia. Diputació de Barcelona. 21p. https://www1.diba.cat/llibreria/pdf/60118.pdf

CASELLAS, Antònia (2014) " Desenvolupament local i territori. Del creixement indiscriminat a la viabilitat social i econòmica" Diputació de Barcelona. Area de Desenvolupament Econòmic Ocupació.  http://www1.diba.cat/llibreria/pdf/54052.pdf

CASELLAS, Antònia; POLI, Corrado (2013) "Planificación urbana e innovación: De la tecnología y la práctica professional a la innovación social y política" Documents d´Anàlisi Geogràfica 59 (3), 435-454.

CASELLAS, Antònia (2011) "La crisis, la geografía económica y Julie Graham: alternativas de desarrollo local a partir de la crítica feminista" Anales de Geografía de la Universidad Complutense, 31 (2), 31-46.

CASELLAS, Antònia (2010) "La geografia crítica y el discurso de la sostenibilidad: Perspectivas y Acciones" Documents d'Anàlisi Geogràfica 56/3, 2010, p. 575-583.

ESTELA, Oriol (2015) "Políticas públicas para economías locales resilientes" Rivista Internazionale di Cultura Urbanistica, p. 81-94.

ESTELA, Oriol (2020) Repensar las agencias de desarrollo económico local en la crisis de la covid-19. Asamblea general de Redel.

GIBSON-GRAHAM Julie Katherine, CAMERON, Jenny and HEALY, Stephan (2017) Retomenos la economia. Una guia ética para transformar nuestras comunidades. Bogotá: Editorial Pontificia Universidad Javeriana

GIBSON-GRAHAM Julie Katherine and ROELVINK, Gerda (2010) "An Economic Ethics for the Anthropocene". Antipode, 41(s1), p. 320-346.

FELBER, Christian (2012) "La economía del bien común" Barcelona: Deusto.

HARVEY, David (2008) "El Derecho a la Ciudad". New Left Review, 53, p. 23-39.

LATOUR, Bruno (2020) “What protective measures can you think of so we don’t go back to the pre-crisis production model?” AOC on 29th March 2020: https://aoc.media/opinion/2020/03/29/imaginer-les-gestes-barrieres-contre-le-retour-a-la-production-davant-crise/ 

MÉNDEZ, Ricardo (2013) "Estrategias de innovación para el desarrollo y la resiliencia de ciudades medias". Documents d´Anàlisi Geogràfica, 59 (3), 481-499.

POLI, Corrado (2010) "Sustainable Development: from Fallacy to Fraud", Human Geography. A new Radical Journal, Vol. 3 ,2, p. 63-82.

REVISTA IDEES (2021) Youth Act! Envers un nou pacte intergeneracional

https://revistaidees.cat/monografics/youth-act-envers-un-nou-pacte-intergeneracional/ 

 

Videos:

David Harvey and the City. An Antipode Foundation film directed by Brett https://antipodeonline.org/david-harvey-and-the-city/ 

Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui. Historias debidas VIII: Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui (capítulo completo) - Canal Encuentro. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q6HfhZUGhc Story

Introducing Community Economies  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAR1JOo5lFo 

How to Build a Place-Based Economy Where You Live | Eric Kornacki |  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31PyAjy6Nl0 

Thinking with Community Economies, Prof. Katherine Gibson  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-dQcQYBwHU 

 

 

Software

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