Delineating functional areas in all territories

Other author Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Other author Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoParis : OECD, 2020.
Description83 pages : illustrations (some color), charts (some color), color maps ; 28 cm.
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Subjects
Regional planning.
Regional planning--Statistics.
Regional planning--Econometric models.
Regional planning--Decision making.

SeriesOECD territorial reviews, 1990-0767
Contents Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Executive summary -- Chapter 1. Why delineate functional areas in all territories? -- Functional and administrative geographies -- Better data for all territories: A statistical perspective -- Better policy design, delivery and evaluation for all territories -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2. Main approaches and challenges in defining functional areas -- Core-flow-based versus multidirectional-flow-based -- Geographic building blocks -- Data -- Additional sources of commuting flow data -- The emergence of new mobility flow data
Contents Approaches without mobility flow data -- Specifications and sensitivity -- Challenges in analysing and integrating outputs -- The "functionality" challenge -- Isolated areas and very small administrative units -- Coherence with pre-existing geographic classifications -- Planning for historical revisions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3. The current experience of OECD countries -- Survey of OECD countries -- Examples of policy application in OECD countries -- Detailed country examples of functional areas -- Canada -- United Kingdom -- France -- Italy
Contents Korea -- Estonia -- Note -- References -- Conclusion -- Annex A. Country examples: EU country delineations of functional areas -- Annex B. Methodological algorithms -- Distances from success -- Search strength -- Annex C. LabourMarketAreas -- R package -- An example of an LMA delineation process -- Notes -- Annex D. Self-contained labour areas (SLA-ZTA) -- Python package -- Annex E. Sensitivity of functional areas to parameter specification -- Annex A. Country examples: EU country delineations of functional areas -- Annex B. Methodological algorithms -- Annex C. LabourMarketAreas -- R package
Contents Annex D. Self-contained labour areas (SLA-ZTA) -- Python package -- Annex E. Sensitivity of functional areas to parameter specification
Summary "Functional areas such as integrated local labour markets exist across countries' entire national territory. However, most OECD countries have focused their work on larger cities and their surrounding area of economic influence by establishing the concept of functional urban areas. Extending this concept to non-urban areas can help policy makers analyse subnational developments and design spatially better-targeted policies. The report Delineating Functional Areas for all Territories provides a comprehensive review of existing approaches to delineating functional areas across countries' entire national territory as a tool for territorial statistics and regional policy making. The report explains the rationale for functional territories as a complement to established administrative geographies. It discusses the most important challenges and the methodological aspects of delineating functional areas based on travel-to-work commuting flows or novel sources of data and develops a set of methodological guidelines that are applied in five OECD countries, demonstrating the feasibility of delineating functional areas across diverse types of country geographies in a consistent manner."--Page 4 of cover.
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LCCN 2020457138
ISBN9264846964
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