Rural at the edge

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Organizer of working group 4.1: Economic development is good, entrepreneurship is good, innovation is good, tourism is good, local democracy is good. In fact, it is all good in the “new rural paradigm”, abandoning old strategies and endless subsidies for innovation and investment in rural areas. But what are the general tendencies in the Nordic countries and what are the cultural and social effects of promoting certain cultural qualities of a region? What social risks are attached to promoting tourism in such a large scale? Do aesthetic changes and experience economy investments hide gentrification or alienation of certain groups? This working group invites all people – practicians, consultants, public managers as well as researchers – working with the “new rural paradigm” to feed in to the discussion. The “new rural paradigm“, put forward by the OECD, recommends a shift from sector based management to cross-sector development based on local qualities as well as a change from subsidies to investments. Attached to this paradigm are different working methods, based on regional and local entities, and more or less following an ideology of bottom-up or joint-up approaches. The initiatives under the “new rural paradigm” is often praised and seen as best practice in rural development, but also bring about major social, economic, environmental and cultural changes.

Periode	22 maj 2012
Begivenhedstype	Konference
Konferencenummer	2
Placering	Joensuu, FinlandVis på kort