Multi-Region Economic Development Strategies Guide. Case Studies in Multi-Region Cooperation to Promote Economic Development. Promising Regional Practices: Volume 1

摘要

This document is Volume 1 in the series 'Promising Regional Practices.' More and more local jurisdictions are aware that the geographic areas influenced by economic development activities are expanding. Politics may be local, but the economy is increasingly global, and local officials recognize that they must cooperate among themselves and beyond traditional boundaries in order to achieve successful economic development. Regional councils are uniquely suited to carry out planning and implementation of these coordinated development activities. They are multijurisdictional, familiar with the depth and breadth of the demographics, and they are facilitators, convening the appropriate partners. The strategies they employ are essentially of two types: those based on the types of regions involved and those based on the types of development projects involved. This guidebook presents five case studies from across the country that represent the varied approaches being employed to foster multiregional economic development.