This volume—which is a collection of published articles by the “Stra.Tech.Man Lab” research team—focuses on and examines the dynamics of local systems as the principal contributors to overall socioeconomic development. Our goal is to clarify that local development is a phenomenon that...

There are three objectives in this study which are 1) to explore the current situation of the collaborating in local development plan in Nonthaburi province 2) to examine problems and challenges of the collaborating in local development plans in Nonthaburi province and 3) to develop the model of...

This paper presents an original novel metric for assessing economic activity at local level: Local Business Environment Index (LBEI). In the development of this metric system we explore a large set of variables that are disaggregated at municipal level for the case study of Romania. Following...

The conservation of and focus on slave export points turned tourist monuments in Cape Coast and Elmina, Ghana, are incomplete without linkages to other complicit places in the interior that together completes the chain of darkness, the trade in humans along the Atlantic coast of Ghana, as well...

Northern British Columbia, Canada, has undergone a considerable economic, social, and cultural transformation over recent decades. Specifically, economic and political restructuring processes have destabilized commitments to community infrastructure and exacerbated the variability of boom and...

Village development and commune development planning (VDP/CDP) encourages the participation of local people in analyzing their problems and opportunities, and finding out solutions. This method contributes to community development by improving capacity of local people and strengthening the roles...

Empirical analysis shows that formal and informal institutions are key factors in explaining why some countries, as well as territories within countries, are more prosperous than others are. After almost 160 years from their formal unification, Italian territories are still quite heterogeneous...

With the transformation of Chinese economy from extensive growth to intensive development, city development is also gradually turning from incremental construction to stock management. Community, as the basic unit of human settlements, is the important platform to build and improve the social...