Development of tourism and recreation clusters in depressed rural areas of Yaroslavl region

Servis plus ◽  
10.12737/7576 ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Татьяна Кондакова ◽  
Tatyana Kondakova
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Rural Settlements ◽  
Agrarian Economy ◽  
Territorial Planning ◽  
Second Home ◽  
Cultural Sites ◽  
Recreation Areas ◽  
Geographical Position

The paper describes the possibility of forming a tourism and recreation cluster in depressed rural communities through a process of territorial planning (based on the example of rural settlements in Borisoglebskii and Bolsheselsky municipal districts of the Yaroslavl region). On the basis of the identified negative features of socio-economic status of the territories of rural settlements confirmed their depression and overall difficulty of further development. Substantiated what is happening now with changing functions of rural areas. As one of the potential strategic directions of development analyzed are the changes in the prevailing agrarian economy through the organization of tourist and recreational facilities. To this end, the group factors are identified that need to be supported in the implementation of this plan: a variety of tourist activities, natural and environmental, social and economic factors. In general, the article highlights that the formation of the tourist and recreation areas is conducive due to the immense open spaces, historical and cultural sites, unique landscapes, convenient geographical position. The problems of the deployment of tourist services on these territories are identified, which are mostly related to the imperfection of the legislation in relation to recreational areas, the existing practice of taxation and social and economic status. As a result, it is shown that in the procedure of spatial planning and in the process of identifying all the features and trends the functional role has changed and formation of qualitatively new areas of management has happened. Determined is the severity of the recreational functions of the system of settlement with respect to the combination of suburban settlements and second-home and production facilities.

scholarly journals COMPARISON BETWEEN SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF SECOND HOME PHENOMENON AND OTHER LEISURE MOBILITY FORMS IN KOPRIVNICA-KRIŽEVCI COUNTY

2017 ◽  
pp. 166-180
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Outdoor Recreation ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
National Level ◽  
Spatial Mobility ◽  
Tourist Attractions ◽  
Second Homes ◽  
Second Home ◽  
Recreation Areas ◽  
Near Future

Unlike other forms of leisure spatial mobility (tourism, excursions, outdoor recreation), the second home phenomenon includes elements of habitation or place attachment to the receiving area. Although all leisure activities are generated by the desire for temporarily change of the dwelling place and escape to recreational amenity rich areas, the leading second home and tourism-excursion-outdoor recreation areas do not fully coincide. The goal of the paper is to examine the spatial overlapping of the second home phenomenon and other leisure mobility forms in Koprivnica-Križevci County to provide scientific contribution to the research of spatial (non)matching of the mentioned phenomena in rural areas of Croatia. Koprivnica-Križevci County was therefore chosen because it is a typical rural area in the Peripannonian region of Croatia, which does not stand out on a national level either according to a large number of second homes, or according to more prominent tourism flow, but in the near future a stronger development of leisure spatial mobilities can be expected. The spatial overlapping of the second home phenomenon and other leisure mobility forms in Koprivnica-Križevci County was examined through the following steps: a) identification of the leading second home areas in the County according to the number of second homes at the level of the settlement in 2011; b) identification of leading tourism-excursion-outdoor recreation areas in the County at the level of the settlement according to four indicators: number of overnights in 2016, number of tourist beds in 2016, number of catering facilities linked with tourism- excursions outdoor recreation in 2017, number of tourist attractions in 2017; and c) analysis of spatial overlapping of second home phenomenon and other leisure mobility forms.

scholarly journals The Role of Savings Group on the Nutritional and Economic Wellbeing of Rural Households: The Case of World Vision’s Savings for Transformation (S4T) in Zambia

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 44
Author(s):  
Richard Bwalya ◽  
Mabvuto Zulu
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
International Development ◽  
Nutrition Education ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Cash Flows ◽  
Plant Diseases ◽  
Household Food Security ◽  
Financial Exclusion ◽  
Systemic Risks

Smallholders and the poor populations, especially in rural areas, tend to have little or no access to formal credit, which limits their capacity to invest in the technologies and inputs they need to increase their yields and incomes and reduce hunger and poverty. This mainly arises because financial institutions interested in serving this market face a myriad of risks and challenges associated with agricultural production and lending, including seasonality and the associated irregular cash flows, high transaction costs, and systemic risks, such as floods, droughts, and plant diseases. As a solution to the challenge of financial exclusion among the rural poor, several international development organizations have been using Village Savings and Lending Associations (VSLAs) as an alternative option to increasing financial inclusion among the rural communities in most developing countries. Using both quantitative and qualitative methods, this study aimed to assess whether membership to these VSLAs results in significant improvements in household economic status as well as household food security. The results show that compared to non-members, members of these savings groups are more likely to have increased access to alternative and more sustainable financial tools. Membership to these savings groups is also associated with improved nutrition, education, living standards while the likelihood of being poor is also reduced.

scholarly journals PRACTICAL PROBLEMS OF URBAN PLANNING OF RURAL AREAS ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE MO " ZORKALTSEVSKOYE RURAL SETTLEMENT»

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 140-144
Author(s):  
Daria E. Paltseva
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Information Resources ◽  
Rural Settlement ◽  
Rural Settlements ◽  
Territorial Planning

The relevance of the work is due to the fact that today in rural settlements there is a problem when making changes to urban planning documentation in various information resources. Purpose: analysis of territorial planning documents of the Ministry of Defense "Zorkaltsevskoye rural settlement".

scholarly journals Orienting the explotation of specific products for rural tourism development in An Giang province

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (X3) ◽  
pp. 34-41
Author(s):  
Sen Van Vo ◽  
Loan Thanh Ngo
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Mekong Delta ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Rural Tourism ◽  
Rural Settlements ◽  
New Countryside ◽  
Statistical Yearbook

An Giang is one of leading agricultural provinces An Giang is one of leading agricultural provinces of the Mekong Delta. With the extension of agricultural land over 79.95% of the entire province’s surface area and 69,25% of the population living in rural areas (Statistical Yearbook of An Giang Province, 2016), An Giang possesses all characteristics of rural settlements. Field observation shows that the development of rural tourism is, in many ways, proper to actual conditions of the province. Recently developed, rural tourism has brought positive change to provincial tourism industry, as well as to social, cultural and economic life of rural communities. Moreover, rural tourism has been contributing to the success of the governmental program of Building New Countryside. This paper analyzes the potential, actual situation and specific products of rural tourism in An Giang, in order to propose a suitable exploitation of rural specific tourism products for the province.

scholarly journals Comparing healthiness across urban, peri-urban, and rural communities in Mymensingh region of Bangladesh

GeoScape ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-23
Author(s):  
Ripan Debnath ◽  
Praghya Parmita Debnath
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Health Assessment ◽  
World Health ◽  
Health Determinants ◽  
Disease Manifestation ◽  
Income Opportunity ◽  
Health Organization

AbstractPeople in urban and peri-urban areas enjoy better physical access to health facilities compared to those living in rural area. However, healthier natural environment is commonly absent in urban and its adjoining peri-urban areas. Premising on the competitiveness of health determinants outlined by the World Health Organization (WHO), this study has embarked upon comparing healthiness of different communities in a region as well as to ascertain the factor(s) regulating their healthiness related outcome. Relying on presurveyed 1397 household data spreading over an urban, two peri-urban, and eight rural localities in Mymensingh region, Bangladesh, the study has evaluated the communities’ healthiness in views of both the conventional perspective and using a set of health determinants. Illness and disease manifestation as well as socio-economic status of the households were analyzed statistically to get communities’ overall healthiness scenario. Later, comparison among the communities and contribution of different indicators were sought using a combined score index. In this study’s context, it has been found that urban is healthier than rural followed by peri-urban community. Here, rural areas lack education the most that should be improved; peri-urban areas need better income opportunity; and urban area requires better water-supply and waste management facilities to improve their respective health status in a community sense. There is not a commonly accepted health metrics for community’s comprehensive health assessment toward which this study sets a pathway. Besides, using the combined health index developed here, specific interventions required to improve community’s healthiness and minimize the gap among them can easily be identified.

scholarly journals State support of the village social infrastructure systems

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-121
Author(s):  
Marina Muravieva
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Data Base ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Public Funding ◽  
Rural Settlements ◽  
Social Infrastructure ◽  
State Support ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Local Initiatives ◽  
Social Demographic

The paper presents an analysis of the existing system of state support for rural social infrastructure for the first time. To address this goal the author studied the state information resources and data base of research of the models of state support for the sustainable development of rural areas. The researcher reveals the limitations of research on this subject (the analysis of Web of science, Scopus, Science Direct, Springer Link, Agris, Russian research data base), formulates the descriptive models of various countries in Europe and North America, and groups them into two basic systems. The tests revealed the main factors of the system of public funding of social infrastructure projects. In general financing the algorithms of support for rural social infrastructure were brought to light, the basis of which is made up by two main groups of countries: those with a support system for large rural settlements, selected on the principle of “driving member” and the countries with a system of grant and loan support for rural communities based on projects and local initiatives. The list of systems is not closed, because the study does not affect the countries of Asia, South America, Africa and Australia, which have their own distinctive features. The limitations in a single database of comparable statistical data about the objects of social and engineering infrastructure in rural areas do not allow to assess the effectiveness of investments. The author comes to the conclusion that single common methodology and standards for the evaluation of all forms of efficiency (economic, social, demographic and environmental) the use of state and interstate programs of support of social and infrastructural projects in rural areas, including a preliminary assessment of the needs in social and engineering facilities are necessary.

scholarly journals Social Capital of Farmers in the Rural Communities of Vojvodina

2021 ◽  
Vol 70 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 20-27
Author(s):  
Dejan Janković ◽  
Marina Novakov ◽  
Marica Petrović
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Rural Settlements ◽  
Cultural Issue ◽  
The Social ◽  
Primary Focus

Summary The development of rural areas is a complex social, economic, political and cultural issue of immense importance to the development of society as a whole. The vitality of rural communities, which represent a specific socio-spatial phenomenon, affects the development of global society and is inextricably linked to the development and issues of urban areas of each society. Both in theory and development practice, rural development as a complex and enduring process has long been unjustifiably reduced to the economic-agrarian matrix, often reflected in the modernization of agriculture and the centralized and sectoral management of and influence on rural development. The primary focus of this paper is on the social capital of rural communities, i.e. social relations and connections within local rural communities which, alongside other important development factors, are one of the prerequisites to maintaining their vitality. The paper presents the results of a survey on social capital conducted on 281 farms in the region of Vojvodina (Serbia), indicating the characteristics of the social capital on the farms considered and the farmers’ attitudes towards the development and life of their local communities. The social capital of the surveyed farmers was found to be only relatively good, suggesting that the overall social capital in Serbia is underdeveloped because all the farms considered are located in Vojvodina, i.e. the most developed agricultural area in Serbia characterized by rural settlements with the most favorable infrastructural, demographic and economic conditions.

Active landslides deformations mapping and monitoring in rural areas using satellite radar interferometry

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicușor Necula ◽  
Mihai Niculita
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Sar Interferometry ◽  
Rural Settlements ◽  
Large Area ◽  
Active Landslide ◽  
Satellite Radar ◽  
Urban And Rural Areas ◽  
Differential Sar Interferometry

<p>Landslide hazards pose as one of the greatest risks in today’s context of climate change and settlement expansion. The later process occurs both in the urban and rural areas and significantly changes the terrain morphology and contributes as a conditioning factor for the triggering of new landslide events or reactivation of old dormant ones. Usually, the urban areas are of a greater interest to assess the activity of landslides and their associated risks. On the other hand, the remote areas such as the rural settlements are not as much investigated and monitored, mostly because the in-situ investigations requires additional costs for the deployment of various instruments.</p><p>In the last decades, the development of Advanced Differential SAR Interferometry techniques permits to identify and monitor these geomorphological processes from space. They rely on the microwave’s signal properties to quantify with millimeter accuracy possible deformations in time. The advances of satellite’s acquisition capabilities and the increase of computational power allow the mapping of active landslides over wide areas and even detection of failure precursors.</p><p>In our case, we used the DInSAR techniques to identify the active landslides over a large area in the Moldavian Plateau that affects the human settlements. Even though for the urban areas was much easier to detect the landslide induced deformations, in the case of the rural communities this task was much more challenging. We used the COMET-LiCS Sentinel-1 InSAR data (LiCSAR) and the LiCSBAS software for processing the data for the Moldavian Plateau, Northeastern Romania. Based on the results post-processing we classified the landslides activity based on their velocity and we created an active landslide inventory of the area.</p>

scholarly journals Socio-Economic Differences in the Development of Six-Year-Old Children in Rural Areas of East Poland

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 2055-2067
Author(s):  
Andrzej Jopkiewicz ◽  
Stanisław Bogdan Nowak ◽  
Agata Maria Jopkiewicz ◽  
Magdalena Lelonek
Keyword(s):  
Motor Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Rural Settlements ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
Socio Economic Status ◽  
Psychosocial Consequences ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Negative Factors

Abstract The aim of this study is to evaluate socio-economic differences in physical, cognitive, and motor development among six-year-old children living in rural areas. The study encompassed 228 children, including 118 girls and 110 boys living in different rural settlements in the Świętokrzyskie Province in Poland, who were selected through a combination of nonprobability and random sampling. The study was carried out from April to June 2014. A questionnaire was used to collect information from the parents of the children concerning the parents’ education, number of children in the family, and the number of persons per room. Based on the concept of socio-economic status (SES), three levels of quality of life conditions of each family, i.e., high, average, and low, were distinguished. The study noted considerable differences in BMI, and especially the cognitive development of the children with respect to the socio-economic status of their family. It was observed that children from rural areas who live in bad socio-economic conditions are exposed to a wide range of negative factors affecting their health, which leads to lower educational results and negative long-term biological and psychosocial consequences. The chance for more rapid alignment of development deficits for those children would have been their earlier cover of school duty.

scholarly journals REGIONAL EXPERIENCE IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF TOURIST AND RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES IN RURAL AREAS

2019 ◽  
pp. 83-89
Author(s):  
Sergey Viktorovich Pankov
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Regional Identity ◽  
World Market ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Rural Settlements ◽  
Recreational Activities ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Recreational Services

Purpose. Analysis of problems associated with the use of rural settlements in the tourist and recreational activities of the region. The range of issues on the integration of rural areas into the regional tourism industry is outlined. Method. Spatial planning programmes often do not take into account the specifics of individual settlements, preserving the regional characteristics of a particular village and its surroundings using methods of both reconstruction and new construction, taking into account the local style, conditions and lifestyle of the population. Results. Rural settlement network is formed and developed not by itself, but in close relationship and interdependence with the functions of their territory. Taking into account regional features and relations of the functioning of the natural and increases the reliability of planning and forecasting development of rural communities, strengthens the validity of the perspective ways of their improvement in the context of the regional strategy for the implementation of tourism and recreational activities. Scientific novelty. Formation in the Tambov region of a competitive tourist and recreational industry as one of the leading, priority sectors of the economy, ensuring the demand of consumers (both Russian and foreign) to meet their own needs in the field of tourism and recreational services. Practical significance. Attracting investors and the General public through the enhancement of cultural heritage, which will make a significant contribution to the economic development and strengthening of the regional identity of the Tambov region. Great importance should be attached to marketing and advertising activities, promotion of the Tambov region as a tourist and recreational region on the all-Russian and world market of this type of service.

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