Global Growth Agendas: Regions, Institutions and Sustainability
May 24-27, 2015
Università
Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Piacenza, Italy
Rural areas are
at times assumed to be characterized by low distribution income and low levels
of social and economic capital. This lagging condition was due to a multitude
of constraints to development: poor economic potential,
isolation, absence of agglomeration economies and creativity. In addition, many scholars thought that
these areas were only reservoir of natural resources or specialized only in traditional agricultural
activities.
At present, these
areas are facing severe pressure: urban sprawl and secondary and tertiary
sectors restructuring promote their evident transformation into new territories
with untraditional
characteristics.
In fact, these
changes are not only economic, but also define social and environmental
variations; at the same time, the reaction to these changes is not identical
for all rural areas.
“Rural” area is
now a succession of full and empty spaces, marginal and rehabilitated areas,
from the apparent concentration of population and economic activities or
disorderly dispersion of settlements, sometimes abandoned. It has a variety of
landscapes, such as small urban areas and cities, forests, farms, greenfield
sites, concentrations of industrial crops. It has also a social structure and
relationship that is not based on the most typical values of rural society and
an economic structure based not only on agriculture.
Rural areas are
facing their traditional isolation, weakness and vulnerability in new ways.
This session
would like to invite to critically debate about all these changes. Assumptions
concerning transformations on socio-cultural, environmental and economic
realities will be analyzed in order to identify their impacts on rural
characteristics and their possible resurgence and dynamism. In addition, government
and promotion choices about these changes will be studied. The session tried to
bring together papers from a range of discipline, such as regional and rural
economics, environmental and social studies.
If you need any
information about it, please feel free to contact Valentina Cattivelli
(chairman)
If you are
interested in participating in the session should submit your abstract to the
session
organizer. Once your abstract has been
accepted you can then register for the conference here:
http://www.regionalstudies.org/conferences/conference/regional-studies-association-annualconference-2015-piacenza-italy
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