This book is a novel contribution, combining recent theoretical developments and empirical contributions, as well as the recent and latest trends and challenges on the issue of Forgotten Spaces. It fills a gap in current research, adding empirical evidence about these places, as well as about the role of their actors.
This book constitutes a novel contribution, combining recent theoretical developments and empirical contributions, as well as the recent and latest trends and challenges on the issue of Forgotten Spaces. Forgotten Spaces - like the Forgotten Regions, in particular - are spaces that in potential can and do create significant value (if their resources are properly rediscovered) and create many potential costs (if these spaces are increasingly neglected by economic agents). The editors have identified a gap in current research because there is not enough empirical evidence about these places, as well as about the role of their actors.
Abandoning regions can lead to, for example, pollution, uncontrolled forest fires, vandalism heritage deterioration, and potentially untreated industrial facilities, carrying potential costs not only in environmental sustainability, but also in values such as landscape aesthetics.
Thus, this book reflects on the dimensions of the identification of such Forgotten Spaces, on the design of policies focused on minimizing associated costs and on the scope of programs to promote these areas, not only for upgrading them but also for promoting their environmental sustainability. The comparative approach of the empirical part also allows knowledge and experience from diverse longitudes and latitudes. The editors highlight the richness of the experience of Latin American countries, the polarization and interesting experiences from several sector rediscovered in Europe, as well as the holistic cases coming from several African experiences.
This book will attract the attention of academicians, politicians and ultimately the attention of all decision-makers who most likely are forgetting many of the Spaces around them.
Introduction: The forgotten regions and spaces Part I: Regional
Development and Policies for forgotten spaces in Africa
1. Compensation
policies in forgotten territories of peripheral regions. the Case of
Casamance (Senegal)
2. Revitalization of the education system to address the
growing youth unemployment in Nigeria
3. Forgotten regions and pastoral
minorities - the Southwest Angolan case Part II: Regional development and
policies for forgotten spaces in Brazil
4. The forgotten regions of Paraná
State in South Brazil: An analysis of the expanded center region in the
context of Economic Development Plan for Paraná State
5. From plow to fiber
optics: the blossoming of post-modern agriculture and economic revitalization
in the interior of São Paulo state
6. Palmas Community Bank: local
development and inclusion
7. The forgetfulness as a multidimensional
challenge: the Brazilian case of Ribeira Valley
8. Women in dry and neglected
lands in Brazil: an insight on the Caatinga biome Part III: Other experiences
in Latin America
9. Regional development disparities in Brazil and Colombia:
the cases of the Northeast Region of Brazil and the Colombian Pacific
10.
Exclusion of small farmers and restructuring of production: A case study of
the Frailesca region, Chiapas, México Part IV: Other experiences of global
forgotten spaces
11. Awakening the power of informal volunteering - an
exploratory approach
12. Sport as a catalyst for the regional development of
forgotten spaces: the case of sport Conclusions: Regional Development and
Policies. Implications for Global Forgotten Places
María del Carmen Sánchez-Carreira, PhD, is Associate Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain.
Paulo Jorge Reis Mourão, PhD, is Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, the University of Minho, Braga, Portugal.
Bruno Blanco-Varela,PhD, is Associate Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain.
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