ABSTRACT
This chapter brings together the concerns of the book and considers integrated approaches to local and regional development in practice. It addresses a series of case studies in which the global context, models and theories of local and regional development, institutions of government and governance and approaches to indigenous and exogenous development policy have been played out in particular places in the quest for local and regional prosperity and well-being. Emphasising the point that local and regional development is a global concern made in Chapter 2, the choice of case studies is deliberately international drawing upon the experiences from across three continents globally: Europe, Central and North America and East Asia.
