A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR UNDERSTANDING "RURAL" POSITIONING

2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (01) ◽  
pp. 45-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
LYNNE SIEMENS
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Small Business ◽  
Marketing Strategy ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Rural And Remote ◽  
Remote Communities ◽  
Rural Region ◽  
Rural Economic Development ◽  
Rural Businesses ◽  
Declining Populations

In many rural and remote communities, residents have traditionally relied on jobs in natural resource-based industries. Over the years, employment has been steadily reduced due to changes in these industries. Both the communities, faced with declining populations as a result, and the residents are examining the potential of small business to create economic development. However, these locations create challenges for small business operators. Some communities experience accessibility and transportation issues and often lack standard business infrastructure. At the same time, the very nature of these rural areas can become components of a marketing strategy. This paper will examine three conceptualizations of rural and the commodification process and propose a framework for positioning the concept of rural as part of a marketing strategy. Three case studies from a rural region in Canada will be presented and analyzed within this framework. The paper concludes with recommendations for rural businesses, communities and governments and other interested parties within the context of rural economic development.

scholarly journals Virtual care with digital technologies for rural and remote Canadians living with cardiovascular disease

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan Buyting ◽  
Sarah Melville ◽  
Hanif Chatur ◽  
Christopher W. White ◽  
Jean-François Légaré ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cardiovascular Disease ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Bibliographic Databases ◽  
Rural And Remote ◽  
Remote Communities ◽  
Virtual Care ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Innovative Solutions ◽  
Canada Health Act ◽  
Care Technology

AbstractCanada is a wealthy nation with a geographically diverse population, seeking health innovations to better serve patients in accordance with the Canada Health Act. In this country, population and geography converge with social determinants, policy, procurement regulations, and technological advances, in order to achieve equity in the management and distribution of healthcare. Rural and remote patients are a vulnerable population; when managing chronic conditions such as cardiovascular disease, there is inequity when it comes to accessing specialist physicians at the recommended frequency—increasing the likelihood of poor health outcomes. Ensuring equitable care for this population is an unrealized priority of several provincial and federal government mandates. Virtual care technology may provide practical, economical, and innovative solutions to remedy this discrepancy. Here we review the literature pertaining to the use of virtual care technologies to monitor patients with cardiovascular disease living in rural areas of Canada. A search strategy was developed to identify the literature specific to this context across three bibliographic databases. 166 unique citations were ultimately assessed for eligibility, of which 36 met the inclusion criteria. In our assessment of these articles, we provide a summary of the interventions studied, their reported effectiveness in reducing adverse events and mortality, the challenges to implementation, and the receptivity of these technologies amongst patients, providers and policy makers. Further, we glean insight into the barriers and opportunities to ensure equitable care for rural patients and conclude that there is an ongoing need for clinical trials assessing virtual care technologies in this context.SummaryPatients living in rural and remote communities’ experience diverse challenges to receiving equitable healthcare as is mandated by the Canada Health Act. Advances in virtual care technology may provide practical, economical, and innovative solutions to ensure this for patients in remote and rural living situations. Here we provide a state-of-the-art review of virtual care technologies available to patients with cardiovascular disease living in rural areas of Canada.

By her own hand: creativity, crafts, and commerce in the Verde Valley, Arizona.

2021 ◽  
pp. 58-69
Author(s):  
Linda J. Ingram
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Small Business ◽  
Rural Women ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Business Ownership ◽  
Rural Economic Development ◽  
Women’S Entrepreneurship ◽  
Home Based ◽  
Creative Experience ◽  
Prototypical Model

Abstract Many women choose entrepreneurship as one piece of a multifaceted life mosaic, rather than approaching it with single-minded purpose. This chapter explores how rural women empower themselves through leisure, creativity, and business ownership by focusing on the meaning of creativity and craft, the evolution of the creative experience, and the resulting effects on their lives. Through structured interviews, lifestyle entrepreneurs were encouraged to articulate their experiences with their small, home-based, tourism-oriented crafting businesses. While this type of small business receives little attention in tourism literature, its benefits to rural economic development are important. Results revealed crafters' relationships with, and to, creativity, artisanship, and entrepreneurship are more complex and fulfilling than previously understood. While there is no prototypical model for women's entrepreneurship, it appears, overall, women find the freedom, flexibility, control, and sense of accomplishment entrepreneurship provides to be beneficial to their lives.

Effects of Information Technology on Rural Economic Development from the Perspective of Smart City

2014 ◽  
Vol 668-669 ◽  
pp. 1466-1469
Author(s):  
Li Jun Wang ◽  
Ping Nan Ruan ◽  
Shuang Li
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Regional Economic Development ◽  
Rural Economic Development ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Relationship

This paper introduces the new concept to address the influence of information technology on rural economic development by an empirical study from the perspective of smart city. Moreover, this paper makes a quantitative analysis of information's impact on rural economic development from the perspective of demand and analyzes the relationship between information technology and regional economic development in rural areas during the construction of smart city as the starting point.

scholarly journals The Effect of Rural Development on Poverty Gap, Poverty Severity and Local Economic Growth in Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 369-381
Author(s):  
Felix Handoyo ◽  
Achsanah Hidayatina ◽  
Purwanto Purwanto
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Severity Index ◽  
Aggregate Data ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Development Status ◽  
Rural Economic Development ◽  
The Village

The effect of rural development in reducing the poverty gap and economic growth has not been much analyzed in recent studies. This study examines the effects of rural development (as calculated by using the Village Development Index, VDI) on poverty and economic growth. Precisely, poverty is measured by the depth of poverty (as measured by Poverty Gap Index, P1) and poverty severity (as measured by Poverty Severity Index, P2) using the aggregate data at the district level in Indonesia. Understandably, many factors influence the effort to reduce the poverty gap in rural areas, and it can be started by improving rural economic development. The result of this study indicates that regions with the VDI categorized as “self-sufficient” and “developed” villages have the potential to reduce the depth of poverty and poverty severity in its areas and to increase economic growth. In contrast, underdeveloped and very underdeveloped regions in their VDI category experienced a more significant gap in the depth and severity of the poverty. This result implies that the Indonesian government must accelerate and improve the development of rural areas, especially in less developed regions. Thus, a better rural development status will attract more opportunities to grow rural economic activities and improve the community welfare.

scholarly journals Intelligent Rural Tourism Environmental Suitability Evaluation System Based on a Wireless Sensor Network

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Feng Ying
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Evaluation System ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Spatial Differentiation ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Rural Tourism ◽  
Suitability Evaluation ◽  
Environmental Suitability ◽  
Rural Economic Development

After years of vigorous development, the scale of rural tourism industry has gradually expanded throughout the country, and it has become an important means of coordinating urban and rural areas to drive farmers’ incomes and get rich. Nowadays, the level of informatization is constantly improving, the construction of smart cities is constantly advancing, the personalized demand of tourists is increasingly strong, especially the rural tourist spots scattered in the vast countryside which have a great spatial breadth, and the traditional management method can no longer meet the needs of the source objects whose main travel mode is self-driving. Therefore, only when rural tourism develops in the direction of intelligence can it successfully realize the transformation and upgrading of rural tourism industry. This paper takes a rural tourism resort in a certain area as the research object and builds an intelligent rural tourism environmental suitability evaluation system with three criterion levels: natural geographic conditions, traffic environmental conditions, and tourism spatial conditions. The weight of each indicator layer is obtained through the analytic hierarchy process, and the reclassified raster data of indicators is weighted and superimposed on the ArcGIS operating platform to obtain the evaluation result of the environmental suitability of smart rural tourism. According to the results of suitability evaluation, the most suitable area is selected as the potential area of the intelligent rural tourism environment in a certain area. According to the natural and cultural tourism resource conditions in the block, the potential block is divided into functions. A comprehensive comparison of the suitability spatial differentiation map of the smart rural tourism environment in a certain area with the suitability spatial differentiation map of each subsystem can more clearly find that the suitability score of the economic development subsystem and the basic support subsystem is a county-level village in a certain area. Among them, the suitability of the rural economic development subsystem is similar to the distribution of the suitability of the smart rural tourism environment in a certain area; that is, it is positively correlated with the suitability of the smart rural tourism environment. Therefore, improving the level of rural economic development and increasing investment in the construction of a smart rural tourism environment play an important role in improving the level of public services and infrastructure coverage.

scholarly journals Conceptual framework for rural business models

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 1130-1139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florina Răzvanţă Puie
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Rural Economic Development ◽  
Rural Entrepreneurship ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Business models have been developed to contribute to rural economic development, being used to create, deliver and capture economic and social value. The aim of this paper is to conceptualize the context of developing business models in rural areas, how these have evolved over time and what is the impact on future strategies in community development based on rural entrepreneurship. The increasing focus and attention on business model innovation has been seen among researchers in the last two decades, and several studies have been conducted to define the concept of business modeling. However, variations in business model definitions are noticeable and opinions regarding its components, structure and relationships inside a business vary as well. The literature review provided significant definitions on the key concepts on business models in rural entrepreneurship. The results of the research are to contribute in developing a framework on the understanding of various terms, such as business model, rural entrepreneurship, community development, and innovative entrepreneurship, with reference to shedding some light on conceptual meaning, purpose, methodology and scope of application. Capturing the existing trends in economic development in rural areas could be performed, based on the literature reviewed in this paper, in order to analyze the potential for diversification of economic activities, by finding the business models already implemented in the rural communities and measuring the impact they had on community development. In this way, a structure for a business model and an emphasis on business opportunities for the rural areas of interest could be developed.

scholarly journals Public Policy Instruments and Dynamics of Economic Development Indicators in Rural Nigeria

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (5-1) ◽  
pp. 101-107
Author(s):  
Jonathan E. Oghenekohwo ◽  
Irene U. Berezi
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Performance Appraisal ◽  
Performance Indicators ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Rural Economic Development ◽  
Public Policy Instruments ◽  
The Impact

Abstract This paper focuses on rural economic development that seems grossly reported, neglected and underinvested in Nigeria despite various acclaimed public policies that the sector holds the key to sustainable economic development of the nation. Analysis of the 55 years of sectoral performance appraisal of the Nigerian economy in relation to sustainability is not comprehensive and instructive if it is devoid of a review of development policies that are public and rural driven. This paper therefore, addresses the dynamics, challenges and prospects of public policy instruments as indicative of rural economic development and performance indicators in the overall discourse on sustainable rural economic development in Nigeria. The paper adopted a qualitative approach to show evidences of performance indicators in rural areas in Nigeria. It concludes that public policies have assisted in accelerating the pace of rural development in Nigeria and the impact cannot be wished away for whatever reasons. The paper recommended that, public policies on rural economic development must be community driven, environmental friendly in implementation, social capital impacted and guided by deliberative civic engagement to enhance the buy-in attitude of rural dwellers.

scholarly journals Assistance for Florida's Rural Communities: The Rural Economic Development Initiative

EDIS ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 2003 (13) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hank Cothran ◽  
David Mulkey ◽  
Mary Helen Blakeslee
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Cooperative Extension ◽  
Resource Economics ◽  
Cooperative Extension Service ◽  
Extension Service ◽  
University Of Florida ◽  
Rural Economic Development ◽  
Contact Information

The Rural Economic Development Initiative (REDI) was established to better serve Florida's rural communities by providing a more focused and coordinated effort among state and regional agencies that provide programs and services for rural areas. REDI is housed in the Governor's Office of Tourism, Trade, and Economic Development (OTTED) where it coordinates the efforts of state and regional agencies working to assist qualified communities. This document specifies the criteria for eligibility for assistance, notes the participating agencies, describes the duties and responsibilities of REDI, and provides contact information. This is EDIS document FE426, a publication of the Department of Food and Resource Economics, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Published August 2003.  https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/fe426

scholarly journals Areas of improvement of the regulatory policy of small business development in rural areas

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (92) ◽  
pp. 75-80
Author(s):  
T. G. Vasyltsiv ◽  
O. V. Rudkovsky ◽  
O. I. Yusypovych
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Small Business ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Small Businesses ◽  
Business Development ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
The State ◽  
Innovation Activity ◽  
Mass Migration ◽  
Socio Economic Development

There is a difficult economic and social situation, especially in the formation and functioning of the small business sector at the present stage of development of the state in rural areas. Insufficient consideration the specificity of rural areas during economic reforms exacerbated their labor relations, unemployment has led to a significant scale. Implementation of the socio-economic and cultural development programs of communities in these cities did not provide financial resources. The importance of economic mechanisms determining future development of rural areas is increasing due to the role of local authorities in connection with the transfer to the regions many functions and powers of the management of socio-economic development that strengthens the influence of local communities on the formation of the town-forming base and the scope of employment. The study used general scientific and special methods groupings, logical analysis, strategic management, economic modeling, systematic and comparative analysis. It was shown that activation of participation of rural areas in business allows for socio-economic development of territories and surrounding rural areas, increase employment, reduce the amount of mass migration and outflow of active population abroad, suspend the process of reducing the level of quality employment capital. Proved that the development of small businesses in rural areas is a significant reserve for further business development in Ukraine and bringing it closer to the performance level of the developed countries. It was established that the level of entrepreneurship in rural areas is low, increase excessive imbalances in the distribution of economic potential of the regions between the regional centers and rural areas and districts, imperfect is the branch structure of the economy and low innovation activity of enterprises of rural areas and districts which negatively affects the socio-economic development of regions and the state as a whole. Based on the relevance and timeliness of small businesses in small towns, and later in rural areas, the strategic objectives of the state policy of small businesses in rural areas of the world experience. In further studies attention should be paid to the problem of implementation of government programs and strategies for the development of small business in foreign countries for their effective implementation in Ukraine, as well as problems of efficient funding of such programs through the budgets of different levels.

Research Policy and Review 31. From Branch Plants to Back Offices: Prospects for Rural Services Growth

1989 ◽  
Vol 21 (12) ◽  
pp. 1565-1583 ◽  
Author(s):  
A Glasmeier ◽  
G Borchard
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Service Industry ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Industry Location ◽  
Rural Economic Development ◽  
Rural Services ◽  
Definition Of

Services are being touted as a major source of future rural economic development. Such prospects depend on the definition of services and the ability to identify and measure them accurately. Recent literature on services is reviewed and attempts made to answer the questions: what are services and can they be measured accurately; how have rural areas fared with recent growth in services; what are the determinants of rural services growth; is their growth self-generated or is it derivative of other forms of development; what regulates service industry location; and do these factors differ from those for other industries? Policy recommendations about service industry location are also reviewed.

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