scholarly journals Sustainable Use and Conservation of the Environmental Resources of the Etna Park (UNESCO Heritage): Evaluation Model Supporting Sustainable Local Development Strategies

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 1453 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luisa Sturiale ◽  
Alessandro Scuderi ◽  
Giuseppe Timpanaro ◽  
Benedetto Matarazzo
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
Rough Sets ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Evaluation Model ◽  
Sustainable Use ◽  
Development Strategies ◽  
Endogenous Development ◽  
Policy Makers

Rural areas are recognized as multifunctional spaces, where traditional agro-silvo-pastoral and other human activities (unrelated rural tourism, ecotourism, processing industries of agricultural and or extractive products, land maintenance, trade in local products, etc.) take place alongside each other. The integrated endogenous development model, established to mitigate the effects of human activity in protected areas, relies on the enhancement of specific resources of individual territories through the active participation of the community to promote local development. This model is intrinsically connected with the model of sustainable development, based on three cornerstones: environmental, social, and economic sustainability. The difficulty in achieving a reasonable balance among these values relates primarily to areas subject to protection (i.e., Parks and Natural Reserves). Ultimately, the environmental culture emphasizes the sustainability of natural resources, obviously in relation to these values and to the vulnerability of these areas. This paper outlines some relationships between environmental protection and the exercise of agricultural activities and other human activities in protected areas by using the theory of “rough sets”. The study aims to show that in the complex context of Etna Park (recognized World Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO in 2013), the model developed by the “rough sets” could provide useful guidance to policy makers to formulate local development strategies according to a model of the sustainable management of protected areas.

scholarly journals Landscape use of protected areas in the Hódmezővásárhely micro-region

2009 ◽  
pp. 179-193
Author(s):  
Krisztián Kis
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Landscape Management ◽  
Sustainable Use ◽  
Natural Conditions ◽  
Territorial Unit ◽  
The Social ◽  
Landscape Use ◽  
The One

One of the biggest questions of developing rural areas is that people and organisations living and making their activity there how and in what measure utilize the local or obtainable externalresources. The concept of the landscape expresses the direct connection of the natural resources with the socio-economic processes. This is a two-way connection, (1) on the one hand the single landscapes provide the unique combination of natural conditions for the socio-economic utilisation which is different from other landscapes, (2) on the other hand as the result of the interaction of natural spheres together with the social and economic spheres the landscapes change in a different manner and in a different measure. The landscape as a territorial unit and as a resource is inseparable from the natural resources, and the natureconservation plays an increasingly important role in the use of the landscape and landscape management, which is an essential task not only in protected areas, but everywhere. The natural resources, the landscape, the nature conservation and the landscape use are related tightly, in which the so-called ecological/biological resources and their sustainable use have asignificant role. 

scholarly journals Adaptive Sustainable Reuse for Cultural Heritage: A Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding Approach Supporting Urban Development Processes

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 1363 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucia Della Spina
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Evaluation Model ◽  
Adaptive Reuse ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Decision Support Tool ◽  
Development Strategies ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Support Tool ◽  
Decision Aiding

The European Union identifies the cultural heritage of cities as the main driver of development strategies. From this perspective, adaptive reuse can play a decisive role not only in terms of increasing the life cycle of the heritage but also as an urban strategy capable of generating new economic, cultural, and social values, thus supporting innovative dynamics of local development. The aim is to propose an integrated evaluation model based on the combined use of multi-criteria techniques, which helps to classify adaptive reuse strategies of unused cultural heritage assets and supports decision-makers in the implementation of development strategies in vulnerable contexts. The case study focuses on the potential reuse of some historical fortifications located along the coasts of the Strait of Messina in Southern Italy. The results obtained show that the proposed model can be a useful decision support tool, in contexts characterized by high complexity, able to guarantee the transparency of the decision-making process, and in which it is necessary to highlight the elements that influence the dynamics of the choice for the construction of shared development strategies.

scholarly journals THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL RURAL DEVELOPMENT CONCEPTS

2020 ◽  
Vol XXII (3) ◽  
pp. 9-19
Author(s):  
Mieczysław Adamowicz
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Rural Area ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Endogenous Development ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Area Development ◽  
The Eu

The objective of the study, on the basis of problem literature, is the presentation of theoretical concepts referring to rural development and practical support programmes of these areas available in Poland and the European Union (EU). In this context, rural areas are presented as the reference area for development policies, with particular consideration for the Cohesion Policy (CP), the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), including the EU Rural Area Development Programme (RADP). Among the theoretical rural development concepts, particular attention was devoted to sustainable and balanced development forming the basis for shaping practical development programmes and identifying new theoretical approaches. The latter encompassed the smart rural areas concept, the resilience concept, local development programming, bottom-up endogenous development and the neo-endogenous concept of open development. It was concluded that the LEADER and LEADER+ neo-endogenous concept is an effective form of supporting rural area development, especially after the fifth extension of the EU with Central and Eastern European countries.

scholarly journals Species-rich but defaunated: the case of medium and large-bodied mammals in a sustainable use protected area in the Amazon

2021 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 323-333
Author(s):  
Dian Carlos Pinheiro ROSA ◽  
Carlos Rodrigo BROCARDO ◽  
Clarissa ROSA ◽  
Arlison Bezerra CASTRO ◽  
Darren NORRIS ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
Sustainable Use ◽  
Camera Traps ◽  
Large Species ◽  
Human Occupation ◽  
Generalist Species ◽  
Management Actions ◽  
Tapirus Terrestris

ABSTRACT Neotropical medium and large-bodied mammals are key elements in forest ecosystems, and protected areas are essential for their conservation. In Brazil, sustainable use protected areas (SU-PAs) allow both the conservation of biodiversity and the sustainable use of natural resources, especially in the Amazon region. However, SU-PAs usually suffer both internal and external pressures, and may be subject to variable degrees of defaunation. We sampled mammals using camera traps in two areas with different forest management and human occupation history in the Tapajós National Forest (TNF), in the western Amazon. Overall, we recorded a rich assemblage of medium and large-sized mammals, though both areas differed in species composition. The area with older and more intense human occupation and forest exploitation had more independent records of generalist species, while large species such as Tapirus terrestris and Panthera onca were recorded exclusively in the area with lower human occupation and no forest management. A comparison of our results with similar studies in other Amazonian sites suggests a reduction in the population size of large-bodied mammals, such as Tapirus terrestris and Tayassu pecari, likely in response to increased human activities. Local differences in human occupation within and between protected areas are common in the Amazon, demanding area-specific actions from public authorities to minimize impacts on wildlife caused by human activities. Specifically in TNF, we recommend long-term monitoring of the responses of mammals to human activities, to better subsidize conservation and management actions.

scholarly journals The Social Economy as a Factor of Economic Development and Resilience of Population in Rural Areas. A Study of Mediating Effects in Castilla-La Mancha (Spain)

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. 5544
Author(s):  
Marcos Carchano ◽  
Inmaculada Carrasco ◽  
Sebastián Castillo ◽  
M. Carmen García-Cortijo
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Population Decline ◽  
Social Economy ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Sustainable Growth ◽  
Endogenous Development ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
La Mancha ◽  
Partial Least Squares Model

Depopulation is a serious problem facing developed countries, among them Spain. It is especially severe in rural areas, where some vicious circles emerge, nourished by reduced infrastructures and services, deteriorated quality of life, the low inflow of new inhabitants, low local development and an aged population. In this context, social economy institutions may be a key factor in the fight against population decline, having a leading role in reactivating economic dynamism through the creation of stable, high-quality jobs, promoting the local endogenous development of rural areas, helping enhance income in those spaces, encouraging the arrival of people and impacting positively on social cohesion, and enabling sustainable growth. This paper focuses on Castilla-La Mancha, an eminently rural region, which is among the areas most severely impacted by the loss of population in Spain. The aim is to analyze the factors that affect the settlement of population, and to demonstrate that social economy institutions may be a resilience factor of rural population. A partial least squares model, composed of 8 constructs related to 21 variables extracted from data for 2017 and 2018 on the 613 municipalities, allows us to demonstrate that the existence of social economy entities helps to anchor population and increase the resilience of this territory.

scholarly journals Miestny rozvoj vedený komunitou ako integrovaný nástroj podpory spolupráce a miestneho ekonomického rozvoja

2020 ◽  
pp. 311-317
Author(s):  
Lucia Pospišová
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Sustainable Use ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Investment Funds ◽  
Local Problems ◽  
Local Actors ◽  
Programming Period

Community Led Local Development is a tool for involving local actors in decision making of social, economic and environmental development of their territory during the Programming period 2014 – 2020. This approach enable to enforce own local solutions for the problems of rural areas and use local development potential. These solutions are realized by local people and are sustainable in the long term period. European Structural and Investment Funds should therefore be used to addressing specific local problems with the sustainable use of local potential and resources. The object of this article is CLLD and its implementation in the current programming period in the Slovak Republic. The paper is focused on theoretical works and studies and is aimed to analyze the theoretical background of the issue and the real implementation of this approach. An important fact is that the CLLD strategies should have been fully implemented in Local Action Groups by this time. Due to the various issues described in this paper there is a possibility that the potential of this tool would not be fully used in the Slovak Republic during this programming period.

scholarly journals Desenvolvimento local endógeno: entre a competitividade e a cidadania

2001 ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Tania Moreira Braga
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Development Strategies ◽  
Endogenous Development ◽  
Political Strategies ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Discursive Strategy

Competitividade e cidadania são pressupostos presentes na maioria das propostas de desenvolvimento local da atualidade, grande parte das quais fundadas na crença em um desenvolvimento liderado e determinado endogenamente, que tem no chamado “Desenvolvimento Local Endógeno" sua sustentação teórica. Indaga-se até que ponto competitividade e cidadania podem ser conciliados, ou se estes se apresentam como estratégia discursiva que visa adicionar charme participativo à abordagem competitiva. Este artigo parte do pressuposto de que, para além da aparente conciliação ou oposição entre competitividade e cidadania, o que se encontra é um campo de conflitos no qual ambos estão presentes e do qual surgem barreiras e limitações às políticas de desenvolvimento local. Seu objetivo principal é discutir a abordagem do “Desenvolvimento Local Endógeno”, investigando sua base conceitual, suas estratégias políticas/discursivas e suas principais fragilidades. Também investiga os limites e possibilidades para a construção de políticas de desenvolvimento local com inclusão social e solidariedade.Palavras-chave: desenvolvimento local; desenvolvimento endógeno; cidadania; competitividade; exclusão social. Abstract: Competition and citizenship are key words on the major proposals of local development strategies under the approach of "Local Endogenous Development". We question if the conciliation between competition and citizenship is really possible, or if it is mainly a discursive strategy that adds a participatory discourse to a competition approach in order to create a democratic illusion. The conceptual framework we use on this paper is based on the assertion that beyond the appearing conciliation or opposition between citizenship and competition we can find a conflict field in which there are both conciliation and contradiction. These fields of conflicts end up by giving rise to a range of limits to the design and implementation of strategies of local development. Our main goal is to investigate the discursive and political strategies that reside on proposals of "Local Endogenous Development" in order to identify and analyse the limits to its design and implementation.Keywords: local development; endogenous development; competition; citizenship; social inequalities.

scholarly journals Economía social y desarrollo local/rural. Un análisis de sus sinergias

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 189
Author(s):  
Juan José Juste Carrión ◽  
Jesús María Gómez García ◽  
Josefa Eugenia Fernández Arufe
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Social Economy ◽  
Economic Restructuring ◽  
Endogenous Development ◽  
Business Sector ◽  
Production Factors ◽  
Castilla Y Leon ◽  
The Social ◽  
Development Processes

Local/rural development processes require the presence in the territory of many different factors (economic, social, cultural, etc.) as well as a considerable economic and social cohesion in which should be engaged the forces of the territory, among which are the enterprises of the Social Economy. The aim of this paper is to analyze the relevance of the business sector of the Social Economy in the process of local development in Castilla y León, with special reference to rural areas. Accordingly, based on the identification of the fundamental aspects that characterize the development as part of economic restructuring (origin, production factors and spaces typical), the paper describes its links with the Social Economy sector. Later, it analyzes, from an applied perspective, the contribution of the Social Economy enterprises to local/rural endogenous development of Castilla y León in terms of employment and production. The data to conduct this analysis is based, in addition to those obtained from the official statistical sources, on the results of a own survey conducted to the Social Economy enterprises in Castilla y León.

scholarly journals Toward an evaluation model for transnational cooperation activities in rural areas: a case study within an EU LEADER project

2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (42) ◽  
pp. 19-45
Author(s):  
Anna Irene De Luca ◽  
Nathalie Iofrida ◽  
Giovanni Gulisano ◽  
Alfio Strano
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Evaluation Model ◽  
Evaluation Methodology ◽  
Transnational Cooperation ◽  
Pros And Cons ◽  
Integrated Project ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

Abstract Cooperation activities between Local Action Groups (LAGs) have been introduced into EU LEADER (Liaison Entre Actions de Développement de l’Économie Rurale) initiative to provide rural areas the opportunity to exchange experiences and best practices, as well as to realize common activities by pooling human and financial resources. The main purposes are to overcome isolation and add value to local development strategies. The benefits of cooperation are widely recognized but, undeniably, it can be also a difficult and time-consuming process. For this reason, evaluation is a necessary tool to measure the success of cooperation and to help actors address their strategies for the future. In this paper, an evaluation methodology is proposed and applied to an EU LEADER+ case study, the ‘Integrated Project for Rural Tourism: Environment and Qualified Hospitality’, a transnational cooperation experience led by LAG Aspromar, based in the province of Reggio Calabria, Southern Italy. Quantitative and qualitative data have been collected through the integration of three typical methods of social research: two techniques based on surveys, namely interviews with privileged actors, and a semi-structured questionnaire, and a technique based on non-survey data and the study of documents. Results can be useful to highlight pros and cons of the management of a cooperation project and to stimulate projects’ leaders on activating improvement processes.

scholarly journals Development of LEADER in Hungary

2012 ◽  
pp. 37-40
Author(s):  
Szilárd Jávor
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Development Strategies ◽  
Social Benefits ◽  
Western European ◽  
Efficient Work

The development of the Hungarian LEADER programme was organised by the Institute of Rural development, Training and Consultancy under the control of the Ministry of Rural Development. Starting the programme without earlier experiences, lead to problems, but these were solved by the efficient work of the organizing institutions. The changing European economical situation makes it necessary to review and update the Local Development Strategies along with opening the programme again. This makes the programme work more effectively with every new turn. Continusing LEADER in Hungary after 2013, by using the hungarian and Western European knowledge, can bring economical and social benefits for rural areas and for the whole nation as well.

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