Economic impact of geospatial information on local economies?

[M.Blackmore]

Anyone know of any useful work on the potential of geospatial
information for local economic development (led)? Particularly for small
town/rural economies? The British context would be very useful.

I'd be interested in some pointers. The geospatial area has crept up on
me unawares over the last decade or so since I was actively engaged in
LED, so I know nothing of how it is used economically at this level. I
suspect that not many practitioners in local government or development
agencies have much of a clue either!

I used to "do" local economic development in an urban context (inner
city London) 20 odd years ago as a local politician, community activist
and co-perative developer (and environmental campaigner which informed
everything...), and then did a postgrad Planning degree specialising in
local economic development in the mid 90's, so have a pretty solid
foundation in theory and practice, though woefully out of date now. But
now that the kids are going to school next academic year and housedad
gets some freedom again...or as much as disability will allow :-(





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