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Resilience and its Core Principles – The key to Sustainable Rural Development?

Learning to Shape Change actively in European Rural Areas Since the late 1990s the use of the term resilience has experienced a bonanza (Bürkner, 2010; Vogt, 2015). It is now ubiquitous in European cohesion and regional policy and is often used in a transdisciplinary manner (Lukesch, 2015). In the meantime it has risen to become […]

Agritorino

Agritorino is an initiative, launched in Turin in 2012, promoted by various local voluntary associations: Sermig, Cottolengo, Congregazione Salesiana, Padri Somaschi, Permicro Banca di microcredito e Piazza dei Mestieri. The project aims to combine support to family incomes, sustainable agriculture and vocational training, by entrusting young unemployed people to cultivate lands that had been left […]

Bibliography on local development

ADE, (2009) “Ex post evaluation of cohesion policy programmes 2000-2006 cofinanced  by the European Fund for Regional Development (Objectives 1 and 2) – Work  package 5b: Environment and Climate Change”, June 2009,  http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/sources/docgener/evaluation/pdf/expost2006/wp5b_  first_interim_report.pdf Abrahmson and Fombrum, (1994) “Macro culture: Determinants and Consequences”,  Academy of Management Review, 19, 728–755. Abrahmson and Rosenkopf, (1993) “Institutional and […]

Launch of LDnet

The launch event of LDnet was successfully held on 1st February 2011 in Brussels with fifty participants from various organisations involved in local development, including officials from five directorates-general of the European Commission. After the keynote speech by Graham Meadows, former director-general of DG REGIO, there was a lively discussion on the current state of […]

LD in Spain: A myriad of initiatives and innovations confronted by new challenges

An overview of local development, presenting a very rich texture of programmes, initiatives institutional arrangements, reflecting the processes of decentralisation in Spain and the extensive support the country has enjoyed from EU funds in the last 20 years: Introduction – The emergence and evolution of local development – A myriad of diverse initiatives and innovations […]

LD in France: Local development policies in France; Origins and evolution over the last four decades

Local development policies and practices are now at the centre of concerns and initiatives of local development actors; both public and private, and with for-profit or not-for-profit aims. This present state of affairs is the result of several waves of local development policies, and major changes in the social, economic and institutional environment occurring over […]

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LDnet is an informal network set up in 2011 to bring together knowledge and people in local development. People who wish to make a contribution to local development can participate in the network. LDnet is supported by the non-profit LEDA-LDnet Association. The aim of the Association is "to develop and spread knowledge and expertise enabling … read more

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