Local Development Initiatives as Promoters of Social Innovation: Evidence from Two European Rural Regions

Novikova, Marina; Ferreiro, Maria de Fátima; Stryjakiewicz, Tadeusz

doi:10.2478/quageo-2020-0012

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“…This use of housing could be framed from the perspective of social innovation in the rural world, understood as a ‘paradigm shift towards a more qualitative development of regions, focusing on dimensions such as the wellbeing of the population, networking, local participation and capacity building’ (Novikova et al., 2020, p. 43). From this perspective, new forms of management and use of housing can be considered an innovation in these rural areas, moving beyond the perspectives that focus exclusively on economic growth, to assess sociocultural aspects.…”

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Housing tactics: Searching for community resilience in depopulated rural contexts (Huertas, South West Spain)

2022

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Depopulation of the rural world jeopardises the continuity of many communities and the socioecosystems they support. In response to this situation, diverse strategies are activated to ensure the continuity of these socioecosystems. All these initiatives seek, directly or indirectly, to strengthen community resilience, with a view to making the changes required to reverse the population trend. One of the most obvious, but least studied, effects of depopulation is the abandonment of housing, which initially implies urban deterioration and collapse but which can also become an opportunity if these abandoned houses are turned into a resource at different levels and in different arenas. An ethnographic case study conducted in the Sierra de Aracena Mountains (South West Spain) allows us to explore the link between housing and community resilience, helping us understand how the use and management of redundant housing can be a fundamental component of resilience in rural settings marked by depopulation.

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Housing tactics: Searching for community resilience in depopulated rural contexts (Huertas, South West Spain)

2022

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“…Concerning capacity building, the results indicate that, despite being partly covered in all interventions by ADC Moura, it is a distinct category of action targeting both the beneficiaries and the peer organisations. In the interviews, the importance of the capacity building was highlighted repeatedly where ADC Mouraand the actors from wider context and networkssee it as one of the most crucial domains and focuses of SI and local development work (Novikova et al, 2020).…”

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Transformative Social Innovation in Rural Areas: Insights from a Rural Development Initiative in the Portuguese Region of Baixo Alentejo

Novikova

2021

European Countryside

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The role of social innovation initiatives in contributing to sustainable rural development has been discussed both in academia and practice. Some scholars argue that, rather than delivering solely on unmet needs and services, social innovation should have a broader transformative impact. By applying Castro-Arce and Vanclay’s analytical framework for transformative social innovation (2020), the paper seeks to analyse the experience of a rural development initiative based in Portugal. The results of this exploratory study indicate that, in triggering bottom-linked governance, the initiative has taken on the bridging roles of knowledge broker, resource broker, shared vision champion, transparency and conflict resolution agent, and network enabler. Alongside taking on these bridging roles, the initiative under study, while promoting cooperation and knowledge exchange, has encountered some challenges further discussed in the paper. Finally, the paper makes some suggestions on how the proposed framework could be enriched.

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“…Innovation is another aspect with a significant presence within the documents examined in this study, though it rarely referred to systematic research activities aimed at improving the quality of a service or product, as it is usually defined in R&D definitions (Witherick et al, 2001), but rather involved vague notions of "new ideas" and "innovative projects". The strategies prioritised the undertaking of innovative activities by local entrepreneurs and farmers, and made frequent use of the idea of supporting social innovation, with some authors choosing to stress the significant role played by LAGs in this regard (Novikova et al, 2020). The expressed need to introduce new solutions serves to prove that there is a general awareness of the fact that when compared to urban areas and industrial districts, rural areas are characterised by a low level of actions aimed at innovation (Janc et al, 2020), and a poor degree of implementing information technologies (Galindo-Pérez-de-Azpillaga & Foronda-Robles, 2018) -a clear indication that they require additional support for this type of initiatives.…”

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Are Rural Stakeholder Needs Compliant with the Targets of the Europe 2020 Strategy? Text Mining Analysis of Local Action Group Strategies from Two Polish Regions

Furmankiewicz¹,

Janc²,

Kaczmarek³

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Hradec Economic Days

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The 1990s saw a considerable facilitation of the concept of area-based cooperation between stakeholders from the public, economic and social sectors in the European Union (EU) with regard to local resource management. EU support programmes have given rise to community-based partnerships referred to as Local Action Groups (LAGs), in which the stakeholders involved formulate local development strategies, the implementation of which is subsequently made possible through the external financial support of EU funds. This paper illustrates an attempt to assess the extent to which local strategies are consistent with the EU's Europe 2020 strategy, using the example of 27 LAGs from two Polish provinces. Text mining and content analysis are two methods employed herein. The analysis served to establish that the dominant issues for rural areas, that are correspondent to the Europe 2020 strategy, revolve around increasing employment, educating local communities and combating poverty through the use of social inclusion methods, with much less attention dedicated to the issues of greenhouse gas emission reduction and renewable energy development. The strategies in question emphasise innovation with regard to planned activities, insofar as it is perceived at the local level, which usually bears no relation to methodical research and development (R&D) work.

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Local Development Initiatives as Promoters of Social Innovation: Evidence from Two European Rural Regions

Cited by 12 publications

References 26 publications

Housing tactics: Searching for community resilience in depopulated rural contexts (Huertas, South West Spain)

Housing tactics: Searching for community resilience in depopulated rural contexts (Huertas, South West Spain)

Transformative Social Innovation in Rural Areas: Insights from a Rural Development Initiative in the Portuguese Region of Baixo Alentejo

Are Rural Stakeholder Needs Compliant with the Targets of the Europe 2020 Strategy? Text Mining Analysis of Local Action Group Strategies from Two Polish Regions

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