지역개발이론의 체계적 접근과 새로운 패러다임의 형성에 관한 연구

• 영문명: A Tentative Approach to the Explanatory Framework and Systematization of Regional Development Paradigms
• 발행기관: 한국지역개발학회
• 저자명: 고병호(Ko ByungHo)
• 간행물 정보: 『한국지역개발학회지』제6권 제2호, 87~124쪽, 전체 38쪽
• 주제분류: 사회과학 > 지역개발
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 1994.12.30

영문 초록

From the beginning of the twentieth centry down to this decade, the theories and methodologies of regional development have changed gradually in accordance with the shift of the developmental environment. Especially, since the end of the 2nd world war, developing countries have pursued national economic development and simultaneously regional development for the purpose of distributing economic activities spatially. This period of 1950-60s was marked by the growth model paradigm which based on the economic rationalism in pursuit of efficiency and quantitative growth. This growth model equates development with a high GNP growth rate generated by capital investments. However, in the process of the economic development developing countries have confronted with many kinds of negative problems such as regional disparity, depression in the rural and peripheral areas, inequality of income and basic services, environmental pollution and so on. Recognizing those problems, since early part of 1970s, the theories and strategies of regional development have directed toward equity-oriented development. Development came to be seen not simply as raising per capital income but more important, of reducing the poverty level and regional disparity, satisfying basic needs. This means that neo-classical paradigm had been already losing credibility in the 1960s. Eventually, Redistribution with growth model has emerged. In the 1980s, a new paradigm raises its head. The flexible production system paradigm initiated from the 1980s as a response to the structural crisis of the 1970s. This paradigm has been directed toward local-based indigenous development, inward investment, promotional information, flexible production system and settlement area, and territorial development. New dimensions of development paradigm has evolved in the 1990s. It is recognized that the growth without environmental conservation is meaningless. Now, environment shoud be preferentially considered in development policies, and development should be carried out within the capacity for sustainable development. However, looking back upon theories and methodologies of regional development, those are lacking in a theoretical framework to explain all of the regional development phenemena systematically. Therefore, it is necessary to established paradigms and to explain those in synthetic framework. Thus, this paper aims at reserching for regional development paradigms and systematizing them. For the purpose, it may begin by explanatory description of theories and methodologies and dividing them into four paradimatic categories. Those categories are ① growth model paradigm, ② redistribution with growth paradigm, ③ flexible system model paradigm and ④ environment model and sustainable development paradigm.