Recent trends in rural development and their conceptualisation |
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| Affiliation: | 1. School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Nanjing University, Jianliang Building, Nanjing University Gulou Campus, Nanjing, 210093, China;2. School of Geography and Environmental Science, Shackleton Building 44, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK;1. Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China;2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China;3. College of Resources Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China;1. Geography Department, National University of Singapore, 1 Arts Link, Singapore 117570, Singapore;2. Geography Department, Durham University, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, UK;1. Faculty of Sustainability, Leuphana University Lueneburg, Scharnhorststr. 1, C 11.17, D-21335 Lueneburg, Germany;2. Stockholm Resilience Center, Stockholm University, SE-11419 Stockholm, Sweden;3. FuturES Research Center, Leuphana University Lueneburg, D-21335 Lueneburg, Germany;4. Faculty of Sustainability, Leuphana University Lueneburg, D-21335 Lueneburg, Germany;2. Ostrom Workshop - Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 47408, USA;5. Affiliate Research Fellow, University College London, UK |
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| Abstract: | The reversal of rural-urban traditional migration patterns in the last 20 years and the diffusion of non-agricultural activities in rural areas indicate that recent trends in rural development have not followed expected patterns. The paper retraces these recent changes, using as examples the case of France and Italy, two countries with quite different patterns of economic and social development. It follows the characteristics of the real processes under way on the one hand and the conceptualisations and categories used to understand them on the other. The paper concludes that recent trends require a thorough theoretical revision of the traditional assumptions in the social sciences. It suggests that the rural-urban criteria of spatial differentiation is losing significance while the regional or local economy approach provides a more useful framework, to explore the relevant criteria for differentiating rural development. |
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