In the postulated efforts to limit adverse climate change (CC), increasing attention is paid to
the development of distributed renewable energy (RE) that meets the needs of local …

Politics and political relationships underpin the world we live in. From the division of the
earth's surface into separate states to the placement of 'keep out'signs, territorial strategies to …

Rural areas face profound challenges in transitioning towards sustainability. Intensive
agriculture is deeply implicated in high greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity decline and …

This book aims to distil much of what I have learned in the past 15 years or so about the
local promotion of rural development in Britain, Ireland and continental Europe. In that …

This article deals with the currently widely discussed concept of regional governance and
investigates the roles this concept actually plays within rural development policy and its …

This book represents the main output of a two-year comparative research project examining
soft spaces in different European countries. Specifically in the case of planning, our research …

The situation for governors and managers of natural resources has increased in complexity.
Previously it was enough to sustain the yields of wood, food and energy. Today …

Small enterprises play a vital role in the drive toward sustainable tourism and in the sector
more broadly, and their importance is accentuated in rural contexts. Beyond entrepreneurial …

Abstract Local Action Groups (LAGs) are multi-sectoral, area-based partnerships operating
throughout the European Union to support participatory local development in rural areas …

The paper examines the characteristics of area-based partnerships in rural Poland. It is
based on the study of partnerships created after the accession to the European Union in …