Agricultural modernization ; Agriculture ; Competitiveness ; Development strategy ; Economic development ; Farm ; Innovation ; Poland ; Rural area ; Rural development ; Rural economy ; Socio-economic system ; Spatial differentiation ; Spatial
Agriculture ; Compétitivité ; Différenciation spatiale ; Développement rural ; Développement économique ; Economie rurale ; Espace rural ; Exploitation agricole ; Innovation ; Modernisation agricole ; Pologne ; Stratégie de développement ; Structure
of success stories in rural areas. Such areas are characterized by a favourable course to socio-economic phenomena and processes that stimulate or enhance the development of their spatial structure. The first part of the article thus works on a theory
then discusses and evaluates the most important determinants of economic success in rural areas. - (BJ)
The current socio-economic development of Poland is creating most favourable conditions for the achievement of economic success. While in spatial terms this above all an opportunity for cities, it is also possible to come across many exemples
Socio-economic transformation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina ; Economic restructuring ; Rural area ; Rural development ; Settlement system ; Social change ; Socio-economic system
Bosnie-Herzégovine ; Changement social ; Développement rural ; Espace rural ; Restructuration économique ; Structure socio-économique ; Système de peuplement
Bosnia-Herzegovina ; Cambio social ; Desarrollo rural ; Espacio rural ; Estructura socioeconómica ; Restructuración económica ; Sistema de poblamiento
The purpose of this paper is to show a socio-economic transformation of rural areas in Bosnia and Herzegovina thus filling, to a certain degree, gaps in studying the settlements in Bosnia and Herzegovina. With regard to data availability, most
of the attention has been paid to issues of economic development of rural areas. In addition, some characteristics of development of new activities in rural areas of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2010 have been presented here. For decades, settlement growth in Bosnia
Croissance régionale ; Développement ; Développement rural ; Géographie humaine ; Société
The political economy of rural development: theoretical perspectives. Rural development research: conceptualizing and measuring key concepts. Analytical institutional economics and rural development research: opportunities for a new synergism. (INRA).
Migration, rural resource management and development in Samfya-Zambia : general statements, significant variables and dimensions of variation
Développement rural ; Economie rurale ; Economie régionale ; Exode rural ; Migration ; Niveau de vie ; Pauvreté ; Société ; Zambie
Migration ; Poverty ; Regional economy ; Rural development ; Rural economy ; Rural outmigration ; Society ; Standard of living ; Zambia
The study was conducted in one of Zambia's economically peripheral districts. Rural-urban migration is rested within the area's state of underdevelopment. For delaborized nonremittee households, rural urban migration entails greater poverty
and hardship. True Samfya is very underdeveloped but without remittances and return migration its socio-economic picture could even be sader and more blurred.―(l'A.).
The paper deals with the nature of rural tourism and its significance as an alternative economic activity for development of rural areas in Bulgaria. The paper draws attention towards and points the resources for development of rural tourism
Tendances et approches d'aujourd'hui en géographie rurale
Concept ; Critical geography ; Geographical thought ; Human geography ; Research ; Rural area ; Rural geography ; Rurality ; Social theory ; Socio-economic system
Concepto ; Espacio rural ; Estructura socioeconómica ; Geografía humana ; Geografía rural ; Investigación ; Pensamiento geográfico ; Ruralidad ; Teoría social
The essence of the theoretical transformation ongoing in rural geography reflects deep thought given to the concept of the ‘rural area’ and ‘rurality’ in new economic-political and social conditions, as well as extensive reflection
questions being tackled and in developing geographical concepts of rural research, in particular new methods of interpreting social and economic phenomena in rural areas. – (BJ)
on the relationships linking rural geography and human geography, especially from the point of view of the development of critical trends. The main objective set in this paper has been to present the influence of social theories in extending the scope of research
Los nuevos usos del espacio rural: trabajo de investigación socio-económica y cultural de Valles Alaveses y de la Montaña Alavesa
Nouvelles utilisations de l'espace rural: travail de recherche socio-économique et culturel dans les vallées et montagnes de la province d'Alava
Alava ; Basque Country ; Ethnography ; Land use ; Rural area ; Rural economy ; Rural geography ; Rural society ; Rural sociology ; Socio-economic system ; Spain
Alava ; Economie rurale ; Espace rural ; Espagne ; Ethnographie ; Géographie rurale ; Sociologie rurale ; Société rurale ; Structure socio-économique ; Utilisation du sol ; Vascongadas
The present paper aims at choosing indexes, identifying and characterizing the success areas in general scale, as well as giving the examples and determining the key factors behind economic recovery in some rural areas. The success areas were
identified on the basis of the established economic growth indicator, migration balances, fluctuations in the own revenues of gminas, as well as changes in the number of economic entities registered in the Regon system. - (BJ)
Article méthodologique sur les interactions entre l'exode rural et l'économie régionale. Analyse canonique et analyse de régression. L'exode rural est pris dans un mécanisme entraînant un déclin futur. Etude sur le Manitoba agricole.
Economic restructuring ; Poverty ; Regional development ; Romania ; Rural area ; Rural development ; Social security ; Subsistence agriculture ; Unemployment
Agriculture de subsistance ; Chômage ; Développement rural ; Développement régional ; Espace rural ; Pauvreté ; Restructuration économique ; Roumanie ; Sécurité sociale
Evaluation du problème de la pauvreté rurale : développement de l'agriculture, restructuration des petites exploitations. Politique rurale : surmonter la pauvreté; les routes rurales, les finances et entreprises rurales. Développement régional
: vers un concept spatial pour le développment rural; programmes régionaux pour les régions rurales et développement du sytème des lieux centraux.
Urban-rural partnerships are an important element for spatial development. They provide a way to combine growth and balancing policy and they enable peripheral and economically weak areas to participate in growth and innovation. But this will only
work if all parts contribute with their potentials to economic growth. The idea is evident; nevertheless, there are still open questions on how to achieve these goals. - (IfL)
Regional and local responses to restructuring in peripheral rural areas in Finland
Economic restructuring ; Finland ; Landed property;Landed estate ; Local economy ; Peripheral region ; Regional development ; Rural area ; Rural economy ; Welfare state
Rural development is described as a series of historical layers of economic development and policies. Since 1945 there have been three successive national policy projects in Finland, with different rural impacts : the settlement project; the project
of the industrial welfare state; and the emerging project of « new rural policy ». The paper focuses on the two periods of transformation from one project to the next.
Energizing rural space : the representation of countryside culture as an economic development strategy
Cultural studies ; Development strategy ; Economic development ; Folklore ; Missouri ; Perception ; Rural area ; United States of America
Culturel ; Développement économique ; Espace rural ; Etats-Unis ; Folklore ; Missouri ; Perception ; Stratégie de développement
The significance of rural has shifted from a production orientation to a consumption role. The central concern of rurality is now the construction and representation of appealing countryside identities. Cultural and historical resources
of a particular time are valorized. Paper examines how this is achieved in the huge entertainment complex of Branson, Missouri, a country music center of the United States and a place so energized that the tranquil, rural landscape has been leveled for urban
Problem-generating structures in Nigeria's rural development.
Développement rural ; Ecologie ; Environnement ; Géographie de l'Afrique ; Nigeria ; Politique économique ; Société rurale
C.R. by P. Richards in Afr. Affairs, 1978, t.77, n307, 257-259. Although the ecological problems are given less prominence than the economic, social and political, this monograph provides a useful background for the study of Nigerian rural
Géographie de l'Afrique ; Habitat rural ; Kenya ; Kiambu
The objective of the research to be reported in this publication was to identify the housing conditions of the rural population of the Kiambu District against the background of the district's socio-economic structure in order to establish
the possibilities to improve the existing housing conditions in accordance with the preferences of the rural population. (AGD).