Rural Development: From Practices and Policies towards Theory

Sociologia Ruralis - Tập 40 Số 4 - Trang 391-408 - 2000
J.D. van der Ploeg1, H. Renting1, Gianluca Brunori2, Karlheinz Knickel3, Joe Mannion4, Terry Marsden5, Kees De Roest6, Eduardo Sevilla‐Guzmán7, Flaminia Ventura8
1Department of Social Sciences, Rural Sociology Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen,The Netherlands,
2Dipartimento di Economia dell'agricoltura, Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy,
3Institute for Rural Development Studies, Goethe University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany,
4Department of Agribusiness, Extension and Rural Development, Faculty of Agriculture, University College Dublin, Ireland,
5Department of City and Regional Planning, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UK,
6Centro Ricerche Produzioni Animali, Reggio Emilia, Italy
7Instituto de Sociología y Estudios Campesinos, Escuela Téchnica de Ingenieros Agronomos y de Montes, Universidad de Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain,
8Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche ed Estimative, Facoltà di Agraria, Perugia, Italy

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Both in practice and policy a new model of rural development is emerging. This paper reflects the discussions in the impact research programme and suggests that at the level of associated theory also a fundamental shift is taking place. The modernization paradigm that once dominated policy, practice and theory is being replaced by a new rural development paradigm. Rural development is analyzed as a multi‐level, multi‐actor and multi‐facetted process rooted in historical traditions that represents at all levels a fundamental rupture with the modernization project. The range of new quality products, services and forms of cost reduction that together comprise rural development are understood as a response by farm families to both the eroding economic base of their enterprises and to the new needs and expectations European society has of the rural areas. Rural development therefore is largely an autonomous, self‐driven process and in its further unfolding agriculture will continue to play a key role, although it is a role that may well change. This article provides an introduction to the nine papers of this ‘special issue’ and the many reconfiguration processes embodied in rural development that they address.in rural development

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Sociologia Ruralis

Tập 40 Số 4

391-408

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