Rural development : knowledge and expertise in governance / Kristof Van Assche, Anna-Katharina Hornidge.
"This book offers a unique perspective on rural development, by discussing the most influential perspectives and rendering their risks and benefits visible. The authors do not present a silver bullet. Rather, they give students, researchers, community leaders, politicians, concerned citizens an...
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| Language: | English |
| Published: | Wageningen, The Netherlands : Wageningen Academic Publishers, 2015. |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- I. Empirical issues and theoretical orientations
- 2. Rural communities and their governance
- 2.1. Rurality and the need for development?
- 2.2. Development as redevelopment
- 2.3. Context and its importance
- patterns of differentiation
- 2.4. Convergence and divergence in rural issues and solutions
- 3. Development
- 3.1. Models of democracy
- 3.2. Development theories and narratives of development
- 3.3. Development theories and the links with governance models
- 4. Evolutionary governance concepts
- 4.1. Governance paths and dependencies
- 4.2. Actor/institution configurations
- 4.3. Power/knowledge configurations
- 4.4. Evolving governance, rural development and knowledge
- II. Traditions of applied expertise for rural development
- 5. Rural development: extension models
- 5.1. Rural extension as agricultural extension
- 5.2. The content of extension
- 5.3. Towards extension as community development.
- 5.4. Governance and extension
- 6. Land consolidation and land use planning
- 6.1. Land consolidation in European history
- 6.2. Land consolidation elsewhere?
- 6.3. Land governance as the basis
- 6.4. Policy integration and planning/planning as policy integration
- 6.5. Expertise, spatial organization and rural development
- 7. Rural development: rural and community design
- 7.1. What's in a name?
- 7.2. Ordering principles and structures
- 7.3. Towards community design
- 7.4. New benefits of design spotted: resilience and brand value
- 7.5.Community design and knowledge
- 8. Rural development: institutional reform
- 8.1. Different sorts of rules
- 8.2. Economic reform
- 8.3. Political and legal reform: means and ends
- 8.4. Institutional reform: transparency and opacity
- 8.5. Nested strategies and framing strategies
- 8.6. Institutional reform and knowledge and expertise
- 9. Rural development: environmental and resource governance.
- 9.1. Resources as assets
- 9.2. Rural development by maximum resource exploitation
- 9.3. Rural development by focusing on environmental quality
- 9.4. Rural development as sustainable development
- 9.5. Expertise, local knowledge and the nature of resources and qualities
- 10. Rural development: transition management and innovation
- 10.1. Rural development as high tech agriculture
- 10.2.Organic high tech?
- 10.3. Innovation for diverse ruralities?
- 10.4. Innovation, governance and expertise
- 11. Rural development: local, local, local
- 11.1. Nostalgic and other versions of localism
- 11.2. Place branding, community design and narratives
- III.Combining and concluding
- 12. Bringing the pieces together
- 12.1. Looking back
- 12.2. Analysis: path and context
- 12.3. Crafting a strategy: concepts of combining
- 12.4. Crafting a strategy: assessing combinations
- 13. Rural development, expertise and local knowledge
- 13.1. Stories about the future.
- 13.2. Narratives and development revisited
- 13.3. Narratives and rurality
- 13.4. Narratives and rural expertise
- 13.5. Institutionalization and the capturing of new narratives and knowledge.