scholarly journals Rural development and regional policy: Conceptual framework

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 353-359
Author(s):  
Ljiljana Vasilevska
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Regional Policy ◽  
Basic Assumption ◽  
Planning Framework ◽  
Initial Assumption ◽  
Planning Approach ◽  
Medium Level ◽  
The Given

The paper treats the potential of incorporation of the rural development into the planning framework of regulation of a more uniform regional development. The initial assumption is that the regional, ?medium? level of management is necessary for a legitimate management of public business and that the problems of development of rural areas can be adequately regulated within the regional development policy through an integrated planning approach starting from the paradigm of sustainable development. The basic assumption, worked out in detail in the paper, is that the activities related to the rural development are operationally defined and realized in the framework of the regional policy, given that the rural areas are one of the resources of the given region, its potential or limitation, and thus actively participate in the process of development of a region and in reactivation of its developmental potentials.

scholarly journals REGIONAL PROGRAMMING AS AN EFFECTIVE TOOL FOR SUSTAINABLE RURAL DEVELOPMENT

2019 ◽  
pp. 44-61
Author(s):  
Tetyana KOLESNIK
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Regional Policy ◽  
Scientific Analysis ◽  
Regional Programs ◽  
State Regional ◽  
State Regional Policy

The article emphasizes the limited possibilities within a market mechanism for regulating externalities and providing citizens with public goods. Therefore, there is a necessity for state regulation of the economy and the related areas such as life of people and the use of natural resources. It is noted that regional programming is an important tool for such regulation (regarding sustainable development of various territories, in particular, rural ones). The purpose of the article is to find the scientific and practical ground for programming rural sustainable development in Ukraine by means of a series reforms. In the article, regional programming is considered as an important tool of state regional policy, which is implemented by using long-term strategies, plans and programs for development of territories or regions. It is noted that regional programs are a type of state target programs, which may be either complex or special considering content, and either short or medium or long-term in terms of implementation. Examples of complex (development of the Tennessee Valley in the USA) and special (sustainable development of rural areas of the EU) regional programs are shown in the article. The article suggests including suburbs and territories outside a city or town with private buildings to rural area. The author proves that sustainable development is a good decision for the territories as well as for other ones. For that purpose, it is important to harmonize the interaction of three components - the environment, society and economy. That is possible in case of achieving Pareto optimum, which does not allow increasing the effect of one of the components, without reducing the effect on other constituents. The features of regional programming of rural sustainable development are shown with the example of the regional program "Rural Development" development and implementation (hereinafter - the Program) based on presentation and scientific analysis of individual components of its conceptual scheme. The normative-legal support of the Program consists of documents of a methodological and informative nature. It is noted that the content of the Program should be based on the provisions of the Constitution of Ukraine, the Law of Ukraine "On the Principles of State Regional Policy", the State Strategy for Regional Development up to 2020 (hereinafter - the Strategy) and other important documents. The strategy focuses on intensifying the endogenous potential of territories (regions), in particular, rural, rather than on their direct state support. At the same time, sustainable development of rural areas is directly related to the problems of territorial and political unity of Ukrainian regions. The author considers that significant impact on the implementation of the Program was made by adoption of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine the Resolution "Some Issues of National Strategy Implementation for Regional Development for the period up to 2020", dated September 12, 2018, which includes the concepts presented by Min Region of Ukraine. After having conducted a rigorous analysis of the Program the author concluded that, it is presented in a schematic form, and therefore requires in-depth scientific analysis, refinement and concretization, starting from the preconditions for its development and ending with the justification of corrections. It is shown that in order to solve the problems of sustainable development of rural areas in Ukraine; a dialectical approach is needed that involves coordinating the development trends of rural and urban areas. It is noted that this was reflected in the purpose of the Program. The objectives of the Program, in accordance with the Strategy, are set out in three directions: 1) diversification of entrepreneurship in the countryside; 2) improving the quality of life in rural areas; 3) creation of conditions for social development. It specifies the persons responsible for the implementation of the Program, outlines its geography and features of financing. The research says that since the Program is very important for the future of Ukraine, it is necessary to use not only EU grants but also financial resources from other sources envisaged by the legislation for its realization. One of the significant shortcomings of the Program is the lack of necessary pre-investment research. It is indicated that the most popular are studies aimed at justifying which regional development projects (in the direction of the Program) should be supported by the state. The importance of the most critical projects of the Program is foreseen: in its first direction - diversification of agricultural production, as well as development of alternative types of economic activities, organic farming and processing and service enterprises on the basis of cooperation; the second - creation (improvement) of conditions for returning youth in rural areas, improvement of engineering, informational and educational, social and ecological infrastructure of the countryside; the third - planning of rural development, development of partnership of business and government, activation of rural development on the basis of the received support. In each of the three areas, the author advises to set the expected results and indicators of the implementation of the Program, which is necessary for its adjustment, based on the possibilities of state support for individual projects.

scholarly journals Possibilities of applications of the rural development programs

2007 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ljiljana Vasilevska
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Regional Policy ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Developmental Potential ◽  
The Village

The problem researched in this paper refers to the possibilities of applications of the rural development programs in the framework of the regional development programs and regional policy. Namely, the rural areas are one of resources of a given region, its potential or limitation, and therefore actively participate in the process of endogen development of the region, and the reactivation of its developmental potential. The village restoration program is thus considered a plan element, of the integrated approach to the spatial planning, defined at a national and operationalized at a regional and a local level as a means of more regular and endogenously based regional and rural development. .

scholarly journals The identification and solution of problem areas of the rural municipalities development with regard to the civic and technological equipment

2012 ◽  
Vol 48 (No. 11) ◽  
pp. 511-518
Author(s):  
M. Vosejpková
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Regional Policy ◽  
Great Part ◽  
Technical Equipment ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Transport Services ◽  
Rural Municipalities ◽  
Constant Support

The development of rural areas is solved by the regional policy from a great part. Since every country implicating and applying this support system is identified by its geographical and political specifics, many problems rise also in the Czech Republic and they complicate the implementation of the regional policy principles in the final result. The possibility of improving this situation is given through identification of the relevant problems and the realization suggested actions. The problem areas in rural municipalities development requiring solution are as follows: poor transport services, non-existing cooperation inside the transport and mutual losses compensation, poor technical equipment of municipalities, securing a constant support of rural development, establishing functioning ties to the community center areas in the micro- regions, establishment of foundations, decomposition of rural development aims, public administration. Respecting of the proposed solution areas in municipalities would help to decrease regional disparities in rural areas.

scholarly journals Integral rural development: Toward a more harmonious regional development

2010 ◽  
pp. 41-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Veljko Radovanovic
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Complex Model ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Basic Parameters ◽  
Almost All ◽  
The Village ◽  
Active Policy

The paper discusses the integral rural development and its importance for the policy of a more balanced regional development. Highly emphasized regional disproportions in almost all domains, as well as the long-standing lagging behind in the development of village and agriculture, resulted in faltering and stagnation of total development of the country. Overcoming, this problem calls for application of a more complex model of developmental policy for the village and rural society, which demand a multidisciplinary approach. Active policy and promotion of integral rural development is not only in the interest of rural communities, but of the society as a whole. This implies that investment in a wide range of economic branches in rural areas is of vital importance for increasing the attractiveness of rural areas, encouragement of sustainable development and creation of new possibilities for employment, especially of young educated people who are ready and capable to accept the new philosophy of development of these areas. Although rural areas in Serbia observed as a whole are highly heterogeneous with respect to economic development, according to the basic parameters of development degree, they lag behind urban and industrial centers considerably, and much more attention should be devoted to this phenomenon in the future.

scholarly journals GOVERNANCE AND REGULATION AS AN INDISPENSABLE CONDITION FOR DEVELOPING THE POTENTIAL OF RURAL AREAS

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kateryna Mazur ◽  
Inna Tomashuk
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Public Authority ◽  
Budgetary Process ◽  
Statistical Research ◽  
Delegation Of Authority ◽  
The Social

The subject of the study is the rural territories and settlements of the country, which are influenced by the conflicting processes of reforming the economic basis of their development, which increases the uncertainty and causes the emergence of social risks in terms of organization of economic activity and obtaining the required level of labor income and, accordingly, the level and quality of life. The current transformational changes in rural areas, amid the processes of decentralization of the current management system, create new conditions that are more or less conducive to the successful organization of rural residents' livelihoods. The urgent task of today is to study the practical problem of the effective development of rural territories, the insufficiency of its development and the complex tasks of revitalization of rural territories of their resource potential in the context of intra-regional features of rural development, which is the basis for carrying out scientific research in accordance with these topics. The purpose of the study is to explore ways to solve problems of regional development, especially rural development, which has never been neglected by economic science, since sustainable development of the country and its regions is impossible without the social revival of the village. Also, a comprehensive theoretical and practical study of issues of management and state regulation of rural development, in particular, the substantiation of socio-economic and environmental problems of the development of the Ukrainian village, the isolation of rural areas, the formation of organizational and economic mechanism of state support for their development and implementation of modern state agricultural policy. Methodology. The problematic of the development of the potential of rural territories is based on the use of multifaceted scientific methods of knowledge of phenomena and processes. Application of statistical methodology in the process of analyzing the dynamics and tendencies of rural development, the effective functioning of agriculture, which is the basis for the study of problems of rural development in general. Economic and statistical research is based on specific techniques, their totality forms the methodology of statistics (methods of mass observations, groupings, generalizations, time series, index method, etc.). Results. In the conditions of formation of market relations in rural areas, especially in the period of economic instability in the country, the study of preconditions for ensuring balanced potential of rural development on the basis of internally oriented motivational factors, justification of priority types of economic activity of rural territories of the region with observance of ecological requirements becomes extremely relevant. One of the main areas to reform the regional development management mechanism is the development of local initiative. The practical implementation is to use the method of delegation of authority as one way of establishing the competence of local public authorities, which is an important part of the decentralization of the executive power, and is of great importance for all processes of the rule of law and, in particular, for improving the efficiency of the local government system. public authority. The Institute of Delegation of Authority in the current context is important for the functioning of public authority in rural areas. In addition, the introduction of a programmatic targeting method in the budgetary process of rural development will help to ensure transparency of the budgetary process, which will clearly define the goals and objectives for which the budgetary resources of the region are spent, which in turn will increase the level of control over the results of implementation of budgetary programs. This approach will improve the quality of fiscal policy-making, the efficiency of distribution and the use of budgetary resources in rural areas. Value/originality. State policy in Ukraine on regulating the potential of land relations should be aimed at solving the organizational and legal problems that have accumulated in recent years and to address the social negatives of land transformation in the countryside.

scholarly journals Development Clusters for Small Places and Rural Development for Territorial Cohesion?

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 84
Author(s):  
Eduardo Medeiros
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Territorial Development ◽  
Urban Settlements ◽  
Development Approach ◽  
Functional Areas ◽  
Theoretical Overview

This article proposes an alternative policy development approach for territories encompassing rural areas with small urban settlements or ‘small places’, which normally suffer from lagging territorial development trends. The proposed ‘Development Clusters for Small Places’ approach draws on the potential of all places to further their development via municipal clustering, based on four analytic dimensions: (i) existing functional areas; (ii) similarities in economic circularity and specialisation; (iii) presence of ongoing territorial and governance cooperation processes; and (iv) spatial physical connectivity and accessibility. Besides a theoretical overview of this policy approach, the article analyses concrete examples of its potential implementation in two case studies: Alentejo in Portugal and Innlandet in Norway. The findings highlight the potential advantages of municipal clustering over current mainstream regional development rationales to implement endogenous rural development in a supra-municipal scale, thus increasing institutional thickness and policy influence towards a more territorial cohesive region.

scholarly journals THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO LOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF RURAL AREAS

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 113-119
Author(s):  
Maciej Stawicki
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Socio Economic Development

The aim of the work is to make a synthetic review of definitions of regional and local development in economic terms in relation to rural development. Rural development is a topic often taken up in scientific research by sociologists, geographers and economists, but it is not defined in a specific way, and is usually understood as development in relation to rural areas. Therefore, the paper presents an overview of various approaches to local development and regional development, using the method of literature studies. The work has reviewed many approaches, features and definitions of socio-economic development as well as regional and local development, which also refer to rural areas and finally proposed a place for rural development in regional and local development.

scholarly journals Regional importance of forests and forestry for rural development

2011 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 137-142
Author(s):  
Václav Kupčák
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Location Factors ◽  
The Czech Republic

In the rural area represents forest management the significant and often the sole source of job opportunities, especially in border areas of the Czech Republic. As the sector is forestry such an important participant of regional development, incl. location factors relation in the face of traceable processing branches. All this increases the social role of forestry and it is a factual fulfilling of specific social functions of forest management in the sense of strategic development documents.National forestry programs are considered as concepts for application of sustainable forest management in long-term improvement of competitiveness of forestry. They are part of the state forestry policy and at the same time they fulfill the EU Forestry Strategy. The paper focuses on the National Forest Programme of the Czech Republic for the period up to 2013 in relation to regional development and the importance of forestry in rural development area in the Czech Republic.The paper focuses on the Programme LEADER too, aimed to engage in the rural areas more forestry bodies into the local action groups and into the elaboration of local development strategies.

scholarly journals Approaches to the rural development problems in the European Union and in some of the Central and Eastern European countries

2012 ◽  
Vol 48 (No. 4) ◽  
pp. 171-174
Author(s):  
M. Vosejpková
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Regional Policy ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Political Regime ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Structural Funds ◽  
Eastern European Countries

Utilisation of regional policy helps to reduce disparities among regions. The approaches to solving these problems in the European Union differ from the approaches practised in Central and Eastern European countries. The development of rural areas in the European Union is realised through the principles of regional policy and its instruments, i.e. Structural Funds, in co-operation with the Common Agricultural Policy. The applied assistance from the Structural Funds is aimed at the objectively defined areas. The situation of countries with many socio-economic problems is reflected in the weak demographic structures of these regions. Solutions of the problematic situation can be found in implementation of the approach supporting the development of multi-functional agriculture and a broader social and territorial context of economic development in all adopted tools of rural development. The way of supporting diversification of the competitive rural economic structure based on encouraging new activities leads also through integrated programmes. Regional policy realisation in the CEECs depends on the institutional framework created in the dependence of the habits applied by the past political regime of the relevant country. The basic issue for the sustainable development of rural areas can be seen in diversification of agricultural activities, creation of small firms and development of tourism together with sustaining the countryside specifics.

scholarly journals State regulation of rural development in the context of the implementation of regional development programs

2021 ◽  
Vol 210 (07) ◽  
pp. 87-92
Author(s):  
A. Zagurskiy
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Spatial Development ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Infrastructural Support ◽  
Conceptual Foundations

Abstract. The goal. The research is aimed at studying the role of rural areas from the perspective of the implementation of regional development programs in the process of state regulation. Methods. In the course of the study, methods of observation, abstraction, analysis and synthesis were used. The conceptual foundations of state regulation of rural development through the implementation of state programs in the period of a sustainable process of urbanization, in the conditions of a post-industrial (information) society are described. Results and practical significance. In the study presented by the author, from the position of state regulation carried out by implementing the relevant tasks of state development programs, a scientific assessment of the modern role of rural territories in the socio-economic and spatial development of Russia is given. The author's position on the issue of the conceptual foundations of the processes of rural development in relation to the current development programs is given. The importance of infrastructural support of connections between rural territories and agglomerations to reduce the «economic distance» between them is reflected. The scientific novelty of the study. The results of the study of the role of rural territories from the perspective of state regulation processes are presented. An updated idea of the position of rural territories at the present stage of socio-economic and spatial development of the regions of Russia is given.

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