Regional Policy and Regional Planning in Ghana

Making Things Happen in the Territorial Community

Sam Ofori (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

344 Seiten

2020
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-74145-4 (ISBN)

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This title was first published in 2002: This work is about the socio-economic and spatial impacts of planning policy aimed at improving the living standards and well-being of the regional communities of Ghana. Implicit, the effectiveness assessment of regional planning practice. It is set within the context of the new national planning system and offers strategic opportunities and challenges. Characteristically, the national and regional policies and contacts are probed and the lack of formal regional plan-making stressed. The author critically analyzes the problem of socio-economic and spatial disparities, over the mid-60s to the early 1990s, explaining the observed changes. The latter is, differentiatingly, done in terms of relevant theories and the empirics undertaken. These include the fashion of perception and conceptualization of development. Change is based on one-off micro-projects at the regional level and a meso-regional project within a sub-regional context. Dr Ofori equally stresses the implementations and local management of the planning policies and programmes. Inclusive in the dynamics behind the processes is the role of partnership. A further distinctive contribution is the identification of opportunities for planning intervention and policy recommendations for a better change in the future: towards making things happen.

Sam Ofori

Introduction - regional planning policy, socio-economic and spatial disparities and statutory planning; the intraregional engagement, investigation and inquiry in regional planning; regional development thoery and the planning process - informing policy and strategy; national development planning, policy framework and contexts; regional planning policy, regional plans and development programmes; impacts of regional development policy on inter-local spatial-socio-economic disparities - trends in convergence and divergence; evaluating impacts of the Twifo Oil Palm Plantation and agro-industrial development programme; effectiveness of implementing regional programmes and projects and managing regional change; lessons and policies for future regional planning practice, development processes and implementation - conclusion.

Erscheinungsdatum	15.07.2018
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Revivals
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 216 mm
Gewicht	800 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-138-74145-0 / 1138741450
ISBN-13	978-1-138-74145-4 / 9781138741454
Zustand	Neuware