January, 2010:

Module 4

Reading List for Module 4: Engaging the Community in Shaping and Delivering Local Strategies (PDF). This is a list of the reading materials; please note that additional reading materials have been suggested following the module on 13th April.

Recommended Reading

• ICLRD Working Paper on Sustainable Communities: A Platform for Development
• Community Planning Information Pack by Community Places
• Planning and Participation in the Republic of Ireland by Brendan Bartley, Jeanne Meldon and Caroline Creamer

Support Documents

• ICLRD Working Paper on Managing a Shared Landscape and Natural Heritage
• Case Study Analyses for RPA on Community Planning in Operation within the UK and Ireland by Blake Stevenson Ltd and Stratagem
• Participatory Planning for Sustainable Communities: International experience in mediation, negotiation and engagement in making plans by Cliff Hague et al
• Unequal Places – Planning and Territorial Cohesion – UK-Ireland Planning Research Conference 2009 – Abstract Book
• ICLRD publication on Fostering Mutual Benefits in Cross-Border Areas: The Challenges and Opportunities in Connecting Irish Border Towns and Villages

Useful Websites

• communityplanning.net
• Community Places
• Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
• County Development Board
• Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action
• Communities and Local Government
• Review of Public Administration Implementation
• International Association for Public Participation
• UK Planning Advisory Service
• Joseph Rowntree Foundation (UK and Ireland)
• Virginia Tech University (USA)

Post Module 4 Report

Module 3

Reading List for Module 3: Making it Happen – A Sustainable Economy in the Twin City Region (PDF). This is a list of the reading materials; please note that in the meantime additional materials may be added to the website, the final list will be available for the March 09 Module.

Recommended Reading

• The Island Economy: Ireland before and after the Belfast Agreement by John Bradley
• Economic Development: The Textile and Information Technology Sectors by John Bradley
• Learning from the Irish Border: Reflections on Poland and the Ukraine by John Bradley
• ICLRD Working Paper on Social & Economic Development in Newry-Dundalk
• Making a Cross-border Local Economic Development Strategy in a Recession by Conor Patterson, Newry and Mourne Enterprise Agency
• What Role for North-South Economic Cooperation in a Time of Recession? by Andy Pollak and Michael D’Arcy

Support Documents

• Spatial and Enterprise Strategies: The Key Linkages by Celine McHugh
• Regional Competitiveness Agenda, Volume II – Realising Potential by Forfás
• Regional Competitiveness Agenda – Overview, findings and actions by Forfás
• Louth Economic Forum-9 Point Plan–Foreign Invest Plan by Louth County Development Board

• Pre-Budget Outlook – November 2009 by The Stationary Office, Dublin
• Your guide to North/South and cross-border ECONOMIC co-operation by Border Ireland
• Implementing the NSS: Gateway Investment Priorities Study by Brady Shipman Martin and Fitzpatrick Associates
• Dundalk Well Connected for Investment by Indecon International Economic Consultants
• First Trust Bank Economic Outlook and Business Review December 2009
• Recovery Scenarios for Ireland by the Economic and Social Research Institute
• What replaces the factory? Post-industrial Britain by the Horizon Scanning Centre
• Distributed manufacturing: Smaller, localised and customised production processes by the Horizon Scanning Centre

Useful Links

• Dundalk Chamber
• Newry Chamber
• InterTradeIreland
• Centre for Cross Border Studies
• The Irish Economy
• The Economic and Social Research Institute
• National Competitiveness Council

Post Module 3 Report

Recommended Reading

• The case of Lille Metropole
  Thierry Baert (Urban Research and Practice, Vol 2)

Support Documents

• Ad Hoc Regionalism: Managing Growth Through Spatial Planning – Learning From the American Experience
  by Vigier-Driscoll

Useful Websites

• Mission Operationalle Transfrontaliere
• Corridor VIII Network – Linking the Southern Balkan Region