Abstract

POLANCO, Jorge. Governance Problems Related to Economic Development in Medellín's Periphery. Lect. Econ. [online]. 2010, n.73, pp.215-242. ISSN 0120-2596.

Conservation efforts aimed at preserving forest resources in the Páramo (moor) System of the northern periphery of Medellín is a territorial governance problem related to economic development. The scope of this article is to identify technical and political difficulties of governance. Technical difficulties concern the relationship between economic development and environmental preservation. Political difficulties have to do with the institutionalization of rules between government actors. This study uses a New Economic Geography and Neoinstitutionalism approach and applies a Multi-objective Spatial Analysis. Results suggest that technical difficulties of governance are affected by economic agglomeration effects, increasing as territories get closer to the city. Finally, the tenets of the bureaucratic project promote non-inclusive political rules.

Keywords : Governance; economic development; environment; economic geography; neoinstitutionnalism.

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