Regional Charters: Reconnecting Our Regional Home and Governing It Equitably and Ecologically: The Ruminations of a Renewable Regionalist - Softcover
Synopsis
Regional Charters guides its readers to become practicing regional citizens and help forge regionwide compacts to shape renewable, equitable growth. To achieve this, it calls for adopting a Regional Charter that empowers local governments, in partnership with all community sectors, to breathe life into these compacts and save our children’s and grandchildren’s futures.
Regions Drive Our Economies and Determine the Quality of Our Lives
Regions can vary in size from a handful of neighboring rural towns to metropolitan conglomerations of cities and counties. They are big enough to provide the components critical to economic competitiveness and the amenities desired for quality of life, yet small enough to work together to address the thorniest common challenges.
Dividing up Regions Has Been a Disaster
Regions, however, have been divided up historically, pitting local governments and interest groups against one another, and squandering new opportunities. Moreover,all too many have failed to help the struggling individuals, declining jurisdictions, and threatened habitats that are critical to staying competitive in the global marketplace. Reconnecting them, as quickly as possible, is critical to saving regions. restoring their health and empowering them to resolve their most pressing common challenges. And reconnecting these divided up regional organizations -- governing them -- has been almost impossible for even the most dedicated regional citizens who are usually limited to muddling through regional challenges playing "pick-up" regional cooperation.
Regions Need Charters to be Governed Effectively
Regions. metropolitan and rural, are called home by most of the globe's citizens. Regional Charters are needed to ensure that all citizen views and experiences are heard across all community sectors, equitably. And guarantee that rich and poor jurisdictions are making decision together in the same room. Regional Charters will not guarantee interjurisdictional equity nor renewable growth, but will provide the governance capacity that is not currently available to practice it. Finally, Regional Charters provide the capacity to collaborate with other levels of governance -- from neighborhood to global.
Bill Dodge has devoted his career to building successful competitive communities -- from income-diverse neighborhoods to metropolitan regions. He served as the Executive Director of the National Association of Regional Councils and launched innovative public, private, university and civic organizations.
The royalties from the sales of Regional Charters will be used to help create incentives and recognition for pursuing Regional Charters.
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