Evaluating the European Approach to Rural Development

Name: Evaluating the European Approach to Rural Development
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Grass-roots Experiences of the LEADER Programme

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Perspectives on Rural Policy and Planning

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The LEADER programme, initiated in 1991, aims to improve the development potential of rural areas in the European Union by drawing on local initiatives and skills. Highlighting this unique policy approach, this book presents up-to-date research results on LEADER’s achievements and restrictions at the local level in a comparative way in order to discuss its merits and problems. What makes LEADER important is not only that it has a major role in rural development efforts, but also that it has a pioneering role in the new type of governance, participatory democracy. Asking whether LEADER strengthens local democracy or not, this book also looks at how it affects the power balance among stakeholders, between national and local actors and between genders. It questions whether LEADER projects are genuinely grass-root level activities, reflecting local needs and ideals; and if the approach brings local know-how back onto the development agenda in innovations and development activities. Finally, the authors examine the success of dissemination of knowledge within the LEADER programme to other regions.

Author Biography:

Leo Granberg is Professor of Rural Studies in Social Sciences, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland. Kjell Andersson is Professor at Abo Akademi University, Finland and Imre Kovach is Scientific Advisor, Institute for Sociology, Centre for Social Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, and Professor, Department of Sociology and Social Policy at Debrecen University, Hungary.

Release date Australia

March 28th, 2015

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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Pages

258

Series

Perspectives on Rural Policy and Planning

Dimensions

156x234x16

ISBN-13

9781472443762

Product ID

25702500

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