Territory and Development Seminar - 2nd semester
Code
711041061
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Geografia e Planeamento Regional
Credits
12
Teacher in charge
Ana Maria Correia Ferreira
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) To transmit a set of knowledge connected with territorial development;
b) To evaluate the role of geographical concentration in economic growth and development;
c) To discuss innovation and territorial development policies at different geographical scales;
d) To analyse regional and local development experiences in Europe and Portugal;
e) To enforce the acquired knowledge in the implementation of local/regional development research projects.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
1) Regional and local development paradigms
2) Geographical concentration, industrial districts and clusters
3) Territorial resilience, competitiveness and planning
4) Innovation policies. Innovation local systems
5) The EU Cohesion Policy. Other EU policies with territorial impact
6) Development problems in specific territories (urban centres; urban peripheries; rural areas; mountain regions; frontier and island regions).
Bibliography
Blakely, E.J. & Bradshaw, T. (2002). Planning Local Economic Development. Theory and Practice. London: Sage Publications.
McCann, P. (2015).The Regional and Urban Policy of the European Union. London: Edward-Elgar.
OECD (2008). Portugal Territorial Review, Paris: OECD.
Pike, A., Rodriguez, A., Tomaney, J.(ed.) (2015). Local and Regional Development (Critical Concepts in Geography). London: Routledege.
Storper, M. (2013). Keys to the City. How Economics, Social Interaction and Politics shape Development. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Teaching method
Expositive and participative teaching; discussion of case-studies; field work.
Evaluation method
Written project report with oral presentation,followed by open discussion (40% of the final grade).
Written test (60% of the final grade).
[According to the assessment of FCSH rules, the proposed evaluation elements introduced to students in the first class may suffer readjustments, namely in the weight of each element].