The active involvement of local residents in development projects has become a keystone in
current rural governance arrangements in the European Union. The latter's rural …

Community‐based development practices have been seen as the prevailing paradigm for
rural development. Rural community development practices are employed especially …

The evolution of EU rural development policies and imaginaries have entailed that rural
areas in Europe and their residents have been assigned specific roles concerning local …

With social innovation being promoted to address the challenge of rural areas, there is a
need to understand how processes of social innovation emerge and evolve at the local …

This article presents findings from interviews with Indonesian villagers who limited access to
quality education. To minimise this educational disadvantage, a village community of …

Discourses on rural areas and their development concurrently encompass both negative
narratives of them dying out and discussions on how to constitute future visions for a …

Since the beginning of the 1990s, the LEADER programme has been implemented to
promote positive development in rural areas in the EU through bottom-up approaches and …

Sport can provide an important vehicle for experiencing a sense of community (SOC),
however, limited research has explored SOC among players within non-mainstream sport …

In this article, we study how declining rural communities build political resilience in Finland.
Community resilience is an adaptive process through which rural communities try to …

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