Linking Urban Security and Regional Development: Operationalizing Security-Development Nexus within Regional Development Agencies

Year 2017, Volume: 2 Issue: 1, 35 - 42, 25.02.2017

Ahmet Barbak

Abstract

This
paper aims to present a conceptual framework for incorporating urban security
concerns into regional development so as to operationalize security-development
nexus within Regional Development Agencies (RDAs). The security issues
pertinent to urbanization pose severe threats to individuals’ and community’s
safety as a whole. Nevertheless, it seems that putting security into regional
development agenda has been relatively ignored. Now that we have RDAs to
promote development on a regional basis, security can be addressed as a part of
regional development. In this study, it is argued that urban security can be
embedded into RDA structure. Doing so, urban security can placed within
regional development practices as a functional and structural component. In
this study, primarily, conceptual linkage between urban security and regional
development is demonstrated. Then an Urban Security Ecosystem is defined in
order to identify stakeholders of governance. Consequently, incorporating urban
security into RDA relating it with Urban Security Ecosystem, it is suggested
that security-development nexus can thus be operationalized. This study does
not suggest a “one size fits all” model. However, a conceptual framework could
be useful to further pertinent discussions and policy implementation.

Keywords

Regional Development, Regional Development Agency, Security-Development Nexus, Urban Security

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