The Handbook of Local and Regional Development provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for local and regional development.

Andy Pike is Professor of Local and Regional Development in the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS), Newcastle University, UK.

Andrés Rodríguez Pose is a Professor of Economic Geography at the London School of Economics, UK.

John Tomaney is Henry Daysh Professor of Regional Development Studies and Director of CURDS, Newcastle University, UK, and Professor of Regional Studies, Institute for Regional Studies, Monash University, Australia.

1. Introduction: A Handbook of Local and Regional Development Section 1: Local and Regional Development in a Global Context 2. Globalisation and Regional Development 3. Territorial Competition 4. Local and Regional 'Development Studies' Section 2: Defining the Principles and Values of Local and Regional Development 5. Regional Disparities and Equalities: Towards a Capabilities Perspective? 6. Inclusive Growth: Meaningful Goal or Mirage? 7. The Green State: Sustainability and the Power of Purchase 8. Alternative Approaches to Local and Regional Development Section 3: Concepts and Theories of Local and Regional Development 9. Spatial Circuits of Value 10. Labour and Local and Regional Development 11. Local and Regional Development: A Global Production Network Approach 12. Evolutionary Approaches to Local and Regional Development Policy 13. Innovation, Learning and Knowledge Creation in Co-Localised and Distant Contexts 14. Culture, Creativity, and Urban Development 15. Post-Socialism and Transition 16. Migration and Commuting: Local and Regional Development Links 17. Within and Outwith/Material and Political? Local Economic Development and the Spatialities of Economic Geographies 18. Spaces of Social Innovation 19. Forging Post-Development Partnerships: Possibilities for Local and Regional Development Section 4: Government and Governance 20. The State: Government and Governance 21. Putting 'the political' Back into the Region: Power, Agency and a Reconstituted Regional Political Economy 22. Territorial/Relational: Conceptualizing Spatial Economic Governance 23. Institutional Geographies and Local Economic Development: Policies and Politics 24. Carbon Control Regimes, Eco-State Restructuring and the Politics of Local and Regional Development 25. Competitive Cities and Problems of Democracy 26. The Politics of Local and Regional Development 27. Spatial Planning and Territorial Development Policy Section 5: Local and Regional Development Policy 28. Endogenous Approaches to Local and Regional Development Policy 29. Territorial Competitiveness and Local and Regional Economic Development: A Classic Tale of 'Theory Led by Policy' 30. Finance and Local and Regional Economic Development 31. Green Dreams in a Cold Light 32. SMEs, Entrepreneurialism and Local/Regional Development 33. Transnational Corporations and Local and Regional Development 34. Innovation Networks and Local and Regional Development Policy 35. Universities and Regional Development 36. Transportation Networks, the Logistics Revolution and Regional Development 37. (Im)migration, Local, Regional and Uneven Development 38. Neoliberal Urbanism in Europe 39. Gender, Migration and Socio-Spatial Transformations in Southern European Cities Section 6: Global Perspectives 40. The Experience of Local and Regional Development in Africa 41. Globalization, Urbanization and Decentralization: The Experience of Asian Pacific Cities Shiuh-Shen Chien 42. Local Development: A Response to the Economic Crisis: Lessons from Latin America 43. North American Perspectives on Local and Regional Development 44. Area Definition and Classification and Regional Development Finance: The European Union and China Section 7: Reflections and Futures 45. The Language of Local and Regional Development 46. The Evaluation of Local and Regional Development Policy 47. The New Regional Governance and the Hegemony of Neoliberalism. All change - No change? 48. Local Left Strategy Now 49. Local and Regional Development: Reflections and Futures