Recent technological advances both on the farm and in the lab are boosting not only the efficiency of modern farming but have made it also more independent form nature than ever before. Increasingly affordable and accessible new technologies are helping us to better understand and ‘manage’...

In urban renewal policy, it has become a widespread goal to revitalise neighbourhood economies. The rationale for these measures derives, to a great extent, from the concept of regional economic clusters, and, not surprisingly, one of their key objectives is to activate local inter-firm...

Regional and local demographic and economic inequality appears to be increasing in New Zealand. Drawing on recently released statistical data, this paper reflects on and considers the implications of growing differences. The dominance of the cities and selected regions contrasts with demographic...

The city of Auckland has recently been reconstituted through the amalgamation of eight territorial authorities and their constituencies. The new city was designed to provide coordinated economic, infrastructural and resource management for a territorial social economy given form and meaning by...

Sustainable environments which offer greater efficiency, prosperity, and social equity can be delivered at differing levels of city scale, but to do so urban economics, urban design, and local governance need to be considered concurrently. To be effective, economic, employment, and wealth...

Australia’s rural and remote regions operate in a complex and uncertain environment. Global economies and markets are rapidly shifting; the arrival of the Second Machine Age is continually stretching the frontier of innovation and will destroy or modify many jobs over the next two decades...

Traditionally, regional policy has sought to intervene ‘in place’. There have been many critiques of particular policies and regional strategies, and a more sustained critique of regional policy more generally, based upon the complexity of regional processes and the relative...

Regional and local economic development policy and practise has evolved over time both globally and in New Zealand specifically. Regional development support in this country, prior to 1984, focussed on conventional policies of regional investment and subsidies. The costly nature of support and...

A feature of regional development in New Zealand over the last two decades has been ongoing skill shortages reported by employers at the same time as unemployment has been relatively high. This paper addresses that issue with findings from a five-year trans-disciplinary research programme on...

Australia’s economy has experienced profound change over the last decade in response to the opportunities generated by the expansion of the mining industry, the strength of the Australian dollar and ongoing competition within global markets. The new economic environment has, however,...