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GLO 410: Systems Thinking: Chapter 7: Strategic Area Assessment
This guide for Systems Thinking provides students with links to references from the textbook Systems Concepts in Action in addition to other resources to help develop systemic thinkers.
Strategic Area Assessment
"Strategic Area Assessment (SAA) is an instrument for local and regional development. It combines the evaluation of the potential peculiar to a specific local area with identifying the most promising development strategies that leverage innovation. The procedure gathers a broad range of stakeholders, drawing on their specific knowledge, and intensifies their readiness to follow new paths."-Systems Concepts in Action, Chapter 7
eBooks/ Articles
- Innovation and Rural Development
LEADER European Observatory. 1997. The aim of this document is therefore above all to clarify t he concept and explore the different innovative paths taken by the coordinators of the innovative actions analysed. - Territorial competitiveness Creating a territorial development strategy in light of the LEADER experience
Leader European Conservatory. 1999. In presenting this five-part publication, the European LEADER Observatory draws on the experience of LEADER I (1991-1994) and LEADER II (1994-1999) with a view to fueling the debate among Europe’s rural players who are seeking a new form of territorial competitiveness founded on consultation and cooperation. - Instruments for sustainable regional development
Ruggero Schleicher-Tappeser et al. 1999. "This is the final report of the research project... in the EC Environment and Climate Research Programme (1994-1998)."
Web Resources
Examples/ Case Studies
- Boscombe West Strategic Area Assessment
2011. An example of local governance utilizing the SAA technique. - Strategic Environmental Assessment - SEA
SEA is a European Union imitative which uses SAA to analyze the potential environmental impacts of development.