This article compares two different institutional models—state-sponsored rural partnerships
and community-based development trusts—for engaging and empowering local …

Clear your mind and think of the word'rural'. What image do you see? Maybe you see the
rolling green downland of southern England, or the wide open spaces of the American …

The division of 'rural'and 'urban'is one of the oldest ideas in Geography and is deeply
engrained in our culture. Throughout history, the rural has been attributed with many …

Rural development policy discourse has shifted considerably during recent decades,
increasingly supporting participatory models of governance and differentiated …

The LEADER approach has been at the heart of E uropean rural development policy for the
last 20 years, encompassing the principles of bottom‐up endogenous development and …

The spaces where countryside meets town are often amongst society's most valued and
pressured places which together form the rural–urban fringe (RUF). A 'messy'yet …

In Aotearoa New Zealand, as elsewhere, partnership programmes overtly targeted to the
strengthening of local communities are develo** in a range of institutional sites. This …

Tourism is recognized as a potential development mechanism for peripheral rural
communities encountering various changes and challenges. However, a relatively …

Significant attention has been paid to the forms and practices of effective school-university
partnerships in recent times as they are commonly seen as a key element to improve the …

Researchers are paying increasing attention to issues of rural transformation. Exogenous
and endogenous have been conventionally recognized as the mainstream paradigms of …