Music and Musical Heritage as Factors for Rural Development

2022 ◽  
pp. 207-222
Author(s):  
Martín Gómez-Ullate ◽  
Javier Barra Sanz ◽  
Manuel Rodríguez Palacios
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Quality Indicators ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Income Growth ◽  
Economic Aspects ◽  
Art Research ◽  
Music Tourism ◽  
Musical Heritage

This chapter reflects on the understanding and measurement of development and rural development and on how music can influence it. Now more than ever, sustainability must direct development, and life quality indicators must be taken into consideration rather than income, growth, etc. From fieldwork, deep knowledge of different European contexts and a thorough state-of-the-art research, the chapter analyses cases and projects that have had relevant impact in their territories or may be considered for different reasons good practice cases. The aim of the chapter is to analyze those factors that may be considered to evaluate the quality and impact of a case. Researching, safeguarding, and recreating musical heritage produce impacts that go far beyond the economic aspects. Some of these aspects will be highlighted in this chapter. Results and conclusions will serve therefor to advance in research lines related to music tourism, musical heritage, and rural development, but will also be useful for managers, rural agents, local governments.

Foreign Aid and its Role in Maintaining the Exploitation of the Agricultural Sector: Evidence from a Case Study in Africa

1983 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudio Schuftan
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Foreign Aid ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
National Development ◽  
The Other ◽  
Sizable Proportion ◽  
Using Data ◽  
State Of Affairs

Today most foreign aid donors are genuinely committed to the idea that development in Third World countries should start with rural development. Therefore, a sizable proportion of their development funds are invested in rural projects. However, donors channel these funds through local governments (most often representing local bourgeois interests) that are not as committed to the principle of rural development. These governments are often also embarked in policies that are actually—directly or indirectly—expropriating the surpluses generated by agriculture and investing them in the other sectors of the economy. The peasants are therefore footing most of the bill of overall national development. This paper contends that, because of this state of affairs, foreign aid directed toward rural development is actually filling the investment gap left by an internal system of unequal returns to production in agriculture. In so doing, foreign aid is indirectly financing the development of the other sectors of the economy, even if this result is unintended. This perpetrates maldevelopment without redressing the basic exploitation process of peasants which lies at the core of underdevelopment. Evidence to support this hypothesis is presented using data from a primarily agricultural exporting country: the United Republic of Cameroon.

Research on Financial Support for Rural Economic Development in China

2014 ◽  
Vol 651-653 ◽  
pp. 1623-1626
Author(s):  
Lei Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
Rural Economy ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Social Economy ◽  
Income Growth ◽  
Living Standard ◽  
Rural Economic Development ◽  
The Social ◽  
Rural Production

Nowdays, science and technology are growing in leaps and bounds; the social economy is also increasingly developing. However, our country’s rural economy is still backward represented by modest income growth and poor living standard of the peasants, which have become a serious problem to be solved in our country’s economy and society. To boost rural economic development can hardly do without financial support; insufficient rural financial support will hinder rural economic development. Only increasing the financial support of rural economic development could promote rural production, rural development and income of the peasants.

scholarly journals Economic aspects of lfa and organic farming payments in Latvia

2014 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 679-687
Author(s):  
Armands Veveris ◽  
Peteris Lakovskis ◽  
Elita Benga
Keyword(s):  
Economic Impact ◽  
Organic Farming ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Public Funding ◽  
Support Service ◽  
Income Growth ◽  
Economic Aspects ◽  
Direct Payments ◽  
The Impact

Less favoured area (LFA) payments and organic farming (OF) payments represent a third of all public funding available for RDP 2007–2013 in Latvia and are used by about two- thirds of all farms. The aim of the study is to assess the economic impact of LFA and OF payments. The data from Rural Support Service, FADN and statistics of agricultural sector were used to conduct the study. A group of farms receiving support payments was compared with a group without this kind of support, in order to evaluate the impact of support payments. The results show that LFA payments have facilitated a significant income growth, especially for small farms. They have also contributed to more intense use of the land. Since OF support has not contributed enough to the agricultural production, direct payments to production will increase economic impact of support payments.

scholarly journals A vidéki térségek turizmusalapú fejlesztési lehetőségei a Siklósi járás példáján

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-112
Author(s):  
Melissza Zita Lempek ◽  
◽  
Róbert Tésits ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Space Use ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Professional Organizations ◽  
Important Goal ◽  
Tourism Economy

The study aims to answer the question concerning how effectively cities of the Siklós district can involve the surrounding settlements in the tourism economy, thereby promoting the development of rural areas. In addition to local governments and tourism organizations, our important goal is to understand the ideas of service providers and their guests related to rural development, as well as the space use characteristics of the latter group. The key method is the questionnaire survey, the target group of which is the mayors of all settlements in the district, as well as the guests of the accommodations belonging to the different product types. The primary sources are based on two further series of interviews, which explore the opinions of service providers and professional organizations. Empirical experience shows that thematic trips can play a prominent role in the development of the less frequented small settlements. The essence of this is to connect the places offering traditional crafts and local products by a bike route.

scholarly journals Satisfaction with Public Services by Rural Residents in West Virginia

1982 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dale Colyer ◽  
Dennis Smith
Keyword(s):  
West Virginia ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Extension Service ◽  
Rural Residents ◽  
Data Gap

Population has been increasing for at least a decade in rural areas of West Virginia as in many areas of the Nation. This phenomenon is transforming rural areas, with problems of growth replacing those of decline. If local governments, the extension service and others are to cope adequately with this emerging set of problems, more must be learned about the newer residents, their attitudes, needs and how they relate to those of the rest of the population in the area. A number of recent analyses of rural development attest to the serious data gap that exists with respect to knowledge in the area (Beal; Fuguitt, Voss and Doherty; Gilford, Nelson, and Ingram; Powers and Moe in Dillman and Hobbs, p. 14; and Sofranko and Williams). This paper reports on a 1981 survey of rural residents in nine selected West Virginia counties, a survey which was conducted to help solve the data gap problems.

scholarly journals Smart city initiatives in the context of digital transformation

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katarina Tomičić Pupek ◽  
Igor Pihir ◽  
Martina Tomičić Furjan
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Literature Analysis ◽  
Private And Public

Digital transformation is an emerging trend in developing the way how the work is being done, and it is present in the private and public sector, in all industries and fields of work. Smart cities, as one of the concepts related to digital transformation, is usually seen as a matter of local governments, as it is their responsibility to ensure a better quality of life for the citizens. Some cities have already taken advantages of possibilities offered by the concept of smart cities, creating new values to all stakeholders interacting in the living city ecosystems, thus serving as examples of good practice, while others are still developing and growing on their intentions to become smart. This paper provides a structured literature analysis and investigates key scope, services and technologies related to smart cities and digital transformation as concepts of empowering social and collaboration interactions, in order to identify leading factors in most smart city initiatives.

Local Sustainability: Balancing Quality and Equality?

1999 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Agyeman
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Practice Guidelines ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Agenda 21 ◽  
Community Or ◽  
Sustainable Community ◽  
Local Sustainability ◽  
Human Equality

AbstractThis paper attempts to link four themes which are interrelated, but not often discussed together in local sustainability discourses. They are: the tension between achieving both environmental quality and human equality; the possibilities offered by Local Agenda 21 (LA21); what a sustainable community or society might look like and some good practice guidelines for local governments in their pivotal role as key facilitators of local sustainability.Environmentalists and environmental educators are good on notions of what they perceive as ‘environmental quality’, but are poor, or very poor on notions of ‘human equality’. Human equality has always been an implicit agreement as opposed to an explicit goal, safely tucked away in the notion of ‘quality of life’.One of the guiding principles of LA21 is that people normally excluded from the decision making process (women, indigenous people and young people) need to be integrally involved in decision making within a framework which stresses the importance of public participation. The reason for this inclusive form of participation is that these groups are seen as having had little impact on the production of local environments, although they are sometimes disproportionately affected by them, by virtue of their social role.Using a set of 13 themes that were developed by community consultations In Britain that would feature in a sustainable community or society, the paper looks at the potential for integrating quality and equality concerns. The paper finishes by looking at some good practice guidelines or ways that local governments, as decision makers nearest local peoples, could be integrating quality and equality concerns into emerging local sustainability strategies.

scholarly journals Teorias espaciais contemporâneas: o conceito de competitividade sistêmica e o paradigma da sustentabilidade ambiental

2004 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Lopes DINIZ FILHO ◽  
Yara VICENTINI
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Quality Indicators ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Third World ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
The Third ◽  
Sustainability Concept ◽  
Management Policies ◽  
America Latina ◽  
The Third World

O artigo aborda paradigmas da utopia ambiental da cidade sustentável, discutindo as definições de sustentabilidade, aliada à transferência economicista do termo competitividade, entendendo que as estratégias de desenvolvimento devem pautar-se em progressivos investimentos para a obtenção de melhores índices de qualidade de vida, conforme indicadores internacionais. Trata da assimilação de modelos definidos para grandes capitais mundializadas, em realidades diferenciadas na miséria metropolitana do terceiro mundo. Nesses termos, aos paradigmas presentes nas propostas de reorganização espacial e produtiva do território, assim como nas reformas urbanas contemporâneas em curso nas cidades mundiais, não correspondem possibilidades de investimento e renda geral da população na América Latina, resultando em assimilações incompletas de políticas de gestão urbana ou em cenários mal acabados de projetos urbanos. Contemporany spacial theories: the concept of competitiveness and the paradigm of environmental sustainability Abstract This paper deals with broaches the paradigms of the environmental utopia of the sustainability cities, arguing about the sustainability concept, allied with the economicist transference of the term competitiveness, understanding that development strategies must support themselves in progressive investiments on achieving better life quality indicators, based on internacional levels. It treats about the assimilation of models defined to world cities, in differing realities in the third world metropolitan misery. This way the paradigms of spacial and productive territory reorganization proposals, just like on the contemporary urban reforms going on the global cities, do not correspond to the possibilities of investment and general incoming of the Latin America population, resulting in incomplete assimilations of urban management policies or in badly finished urban projects scenaries.

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