Rethinking on Sustainable Rural Development

Akgün, Aliye Ahu; Baycan, Tüzin; Nijkamp, Peter

doi:10.1080/09654313.2014.945813

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“…It seems rational to apply the systemic approach, aiming at dealing in parallel with interrelated actions deriving from different spheres of economic and social life. A.A. Akgun et al [24] as well as A. Czudec et al [2] distinguished several groups of factors determining the sustainable growth of rural areas, which may be summarized as follows:…”

Section: The Substance and Factors Of The Sustainable Development Of mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…There are many other approaches to the sustainable development of rural areas, all of which originate from the idea of the sustainable growth itself or are interrelated. These are: the concept of social, economic and spatial order, regeneration, eco-development, animation and development of local communities, building the capital of integrated local growth, countryside resilience, inclusive growth, and other [13,[23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32]. The smart growth of rural areas is one of the newer concepts.…”

Section: Smart Growth As the Idea Of Persistence And Sustainability Omentioning

confidence: 99%

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The “Smart Village” as a Way to Achieve Sustainable Development in Rural Areas of Poland

Adamowicz

Zwolińska-Ligaj

2020

Sustainability

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In each country, rural areas cover the bulk of available land; however, they generally remain outside the mainstream of innovative development processes. Still, they have potential and are vital for implementing the highly valid concept of persistent and sustainable development. The idea of such growth can be implemented in many ways, and the smart development concept is one of these ways. The aim of this paper is to present the smart village concept as a means to achieve the sustainability and resilience of rural areas, relying on the analysis of basic theories of sustainable and persistent growth. The study examines and evaluates the state of the potential for the smart growth of rural areas in all regions of Poland, as well as presents the results of the empirical research on such potential in three regions of Eastern Poland. The smart growth potential of the regions in question was determined by means of 24 variables representing the following fields: management, life quality, economy, society, natural environment and mobility. It was concluded that the smart village concept can be useful in facilitating sustainable development of rural areas. Further research concerning the problem should in particular focus on strengthening the relations between rural communes with cities and towns in their close vicinity.

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Section: The Substance and Factors Of The Sustainable Development Of mentioning

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Section: Smart Growth As the Idea Of Persistence And Sustainability Omentioning

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The “Smart Village” as a Way to Achieve Sustainable Development in Rural Areas of Poland

Adamowicz

Zwolińska-Ligaj

2020

Sustainability

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“…Additionally, scientists find that such interest in sustainable development may differ among regions taking into account their economic development level. For example, Akgün et al (2014) and Sedlacek (2013) mention that economically higher developed regions usually pay more attention to sustainability issues than economically less developed regions. Although, at countries level, economically high developed countries are main initiators to contribute to sustainable development (e.g.…”

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Insights on Sustainable Universities from Economic and Statistical Perspectives

Šipilova¹

2019

Academic Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies

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Currently, the issues on sustainability receive extremely high interest, especially from young generation. This makes universities as key participants in sustainable development as far as they provide wide possibilities for engagement in the process. Despite many studies devoted to universities as participants of sustainable development, there still is insufficient knowledge about their contribution to the process. Mostly, studies are qualitative and consider certain examples of good practices, which do not provide insights on common and different characteristics and trends of universities’ contribution to sustainable development. This is the result of the early stage of development of the reporting about universities’ sustainable efforts what limits possibilities to carry quantitative analysis. The paper aims, first, to search for characteristics of universities’ contribution to sustainable development and, second, to detect trends by using numerical secondary data worked up in UI GreenMetric World University Ranking. The paper focuses on universities from European Union. Special attention is devoted to countries’ economic development level as far as scientific literature suggests that the level of economic development may affect involvement in sustainable development. Research findings allows to indicate that there are both common and distinct characteristics across the cases from economically high and less developed countries what is significant for further policy-making and popularizing of sustainability idea across universities in the European Union. Universities continue to improve practices and search for new accents. However, universities’ intention to report about their sustainable efforts in long-term perspective for continuing data collection must be more active.

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“…Previous research related to village development can be divided into two focus groups: first, research that is still at the level of concepts regarding ideal village development, village development management, and the reasons of why village development are important; second, research related to case studies of the implementation of village/rural development. First, research related to ideal village development, village development management, and the reasons of why village development is important have been carried out by Jenkins [5]; Akgün et al [6]; Tomashuk [7]; and Koopmans et al [8]. Second, research related to case studies of the implementation of village development in a country have been done by Courtney et al [9]; Popescu [10]; and Chen et al [11].…”

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New Holistic Strategy of Sustainable Rural Development Management-Experience from Indonesia: A PESTEL-SOAR Analysis

Muhardi¹,

Mafruhat²,

Cintyawati³

et al. 2020

IJSDP

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This article offers a new strategy of holistic rural development by utilizing the external strengths of the rural and the internal strength based on the experience of one of the rural in Indonesia that has been succeeded in turning the rural from the poorest into the best in the national rank. The successful formula is associated with the role of village leaders in benefiting opportunities from the existing external-internal aspects. To capture more holistic development phenomena including political, economic, social, technological, environmental and legal phenomena while generating new bottom-up strategies, the study uses PESTEL and SOAR analysis. This study found that the first condition for rural development in Indonesia is the development of village leadership management strength in holistically managing the potential and opportunities of external and internal villages. It changes the fundamental paradigm that holistic rural development must be seen as a whole (the village can take advantage of the existing external-internal strengths) partially (the village only focuses on utilizing the village's internal strength utilization agricultural potential). Through the PESTELs-SOAR analysis approach, the strategy offered becomes more rational and comprehensive in sustainable rural development by collaborating the village bottom-up strategy approach while still considering prevailing external conditions (more top-down).

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Rethinking on Sustainable Rural Development

Cited by 48 publications

References 17 publications

The “Smart Village” as a Way to Achieve Sustainable Development in Rural Areas of Poland

The “Smart Village” as a Way to Achieve Sustainable Development in Rural Areas of Poland

Insights on Sustainable Universities from Economic and Statistical Perspectives

New Holistic Strategy of Sustainable Rural Development Management-Experience from Indonesia: A PESTEL-SOAR Analysis

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