Includes bibliographical references and index.

The recession and beyond : local and regional responses to the downturn / David Bailey and Caroline Chapain -- The Spatial impacts of the recession / Naomi Clayton -- The impact of the recession on businesses / Nigel Berkeley, David Jarvis and Jason Begley -- The impacts of the recession on workers and communities / Caroline Chapain -- Impacts of the recession on local authorities / Caroline Chapain and Craig Renney -- A framework for analysing local authorities-responses to the recession / Caroline Chapain, David Bailey and Alex Burfitt -- Local and regional responses to recession in context : setting the scene in the UK / David Bailey, Chris Collinge and Andrew Coulson -- Local authorities working in partnerships : panacea or false dawn? / Andrew Coulson and Martin Willis -- Support for business / Nigel Berkeley, David Jarvis and David Bailey -- Support for workers and communities / Gill Bentley and Caroline Chapain -- Fighting unemployment, local authorities, the third sector and value-for-money in the UK / Robert Dalziel -- Withstanding the cuts : how local authorities continue to prevent crime in times of recession and government cuts / Eileen Dunstan -- The importance of place : restructuring as local-central negotiation / Heike Doering -- Recession, recovery and reinvestment. The role of local economic leadership in a global crisis : the Barcelona principles in practice / Greg Clark and Joe Huxley -- A French région in crisis : the response of local authorities to the recession in the Région Midi-Pyrénées in France / Denis Eckert, Fabrice Escaffre and Josselin Tallec -- Impact of the global economic downturn on municipalities in Canada / Eric Champagne -- Local government and economic shock within a federal system-the Australian case / Andrew Beer.