Many rural regions in Europe are undergoing a dynamic transition, driven by forces of urbanisation and agricultural development, new patterns of production and consumption, and new societal demands. However, while the historical rural-urban divide is eroding, rural landscapes are becoming more impor...

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Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Wageningen Wageningen Academic Publishers 2010
Schlagworte:	Regional planning / fast / (OCoLC)fst01093120 Sustainable development / fast / (OCoLC)fst01139731 Sustainable development > Netherlands Regional planning > Netherlands Nachhaltigkeit Ländliche Entwicklung Netherlands / fast / (OCoLC)fst01204034 Niederlande Aufsatzsammlung
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Zusammenfassung:	Many rural regions in Europe are undergoing a dynamic transition, driven by forces of urbanisation and agricultural development, new patterns of production and consumption, and new societal demands. However, while the historical rural-urban divide is eroding, rural landscapes are becoming more important to people for leisure, recreation and personal orientation. The complex processes affecting rural areas are proving difficult for the current institutions to manage. The challenge is to find ways to create new capacity to act and get sustainable initiatives off the ground; initiatives that are now often smothered or constrained by the institutional context. This book bridges the gap between theory and practice to explore the conditions required to enable a transition towards sustainable regional development. It analyses experiences in eight regions in the Netherlands where different regional strategies have been pursued: the develo
Beschreibung:	Includes bibliographical references Chapter 1. Introduction and research questions / Ina Horlings -- Chapter 2. Creating capacity to act and sustainability in rural-urban regions: problem analysis / Ina Horlings -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Regional development and planning in the Netherlands -- 2.3. Scenarios for sustainable rural development -- 2.4. Experiences with region-oriented policy and self-governance in the Netherlands -- 2.5. Introducing the concept of regimes -- 2.6. Problems with public-private co-operation in regimes -- 2.7. Can vital coalitions create capacity to act in regional development processes? -- 2.8. Creating sustainability in the interaction between regimes and vital coalitions -- 2.9. Summary and conclusions -- References -- Chapter 3. New concepts for studying regional development / Julien van Ostaaijen -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Urban regimes and vital coalitions: forms of policy networks -- 3.3. urban regime concept -- 3.4. Vital coalitions -- - 3.5. Regional regimes and vital coalitions -- 3.6. Summary -- References -- Chapter 4. Pathways for sustainable regional development: strategies and vital coalitions / Ina Horlings -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Methodology -- 4.3. Innovative ways of increasing the scale of land-based agriculture -- 4.4. Decoupling and industrial ecology -- 4.5. Multifunctional agriculture -- 4.6. Rural-urban integration -- 4.7. Types of coalitions -- 4.8. Contribution to sustainable development -- 4.9. Stimulating and hindering factors in regional development -- 4.10. Towards a new regional paradigm in rural-urban regions? -- 4.11. Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 5. Vitality and values: the role of leaders of change in regional development / Ina Horlings -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Methodology -- 5.3. role of leadership in sustainable regional development -- 5.4. Leadership types and tasks -- 5.5. Leadership capabilities -- 5.6. Value-oriented leadership -- - 5.7. Leaders of change in regional projects in the Netherlands -- 5.8. Empirical findings: a typology of leaders of change in Dutch regional projects -- 5.9. Conclusions: towards value-oriented leadership -- References -- Chapter 6. New Markets in Heuvelland: coalition building and agenda setting / Noelle Aarts -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. Issue development -- 6.3. Constructing coalitions without a sense of direction -- 6.4. 'constructed power' of the provincial government -- 6.5. Self-organisation and synchronicity -- 6.6. Conclusion and discussion -- References -- ch. 7 Conditions for vital coalitions in regional development / Hetty van der Stoep -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. Vitality of the studied 'vital coalitions' -- 7.3. Conditions for vital coalitions -- 7.4. interrelations between the conditions -- 7.5. Regime-coalition interplay and reflection on the theory -- 7.6. Recommendations -- 7.7. Summary -- References
Beschreibung:	1 Online-Ressource (175 Seiten) Illustrationen, map
ISBN:	9086866956 9789086866953
DOI:	10.3920/978-90-8686-695-3