LEADER rural development action groups in Central-Eastern Europe
Session
Architecture and Spatial Planning
Description
Rural areas are among the zones negatively affected by socio-economic consequences of globalization. The development of lagging behind regions has a multi-decade history in Europe. A broad range of methods of regional development methods has been used to realize common objectives. According to experiences universal development methods are rarely able to solve local specific challenges. Place-sensitive bottom-up development methods can help tackling these problems.The LEADER (Liaison entre actions de développement de l'économie rurale) method has been introduced in the European Union at the beginning of the 1990s. Since that date is has become one of the most successful community initiatives and now it is an integrated part of rural and urban development (community-led local development – CLLD).After the EU access of Central and Eastern European countries LEADER method was introduced to these states as well. Our recent article concentrates on the experiences of four countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) in the implementation of this program. Some specialities will be presented in the spatial, symbolic, institutional and functional dimensions of LEADER local action groups in the related countries.The research is based on a wide variety of methods such as the analysis of official European statistical databases, the content analysis of local development strategies and questionnaire surveys.
Keywords:
rural development, LEADER program, governance, bottom-up development methods
Session Chair
Binak Beqaj
Session Co-Chair
Elvida Pallaska
Proceedings Editor
Edmond Hajrizi
ISBN
978-9951-437-69-1
Location
Pristina, Kosovo
Start Date
27-10-2018 9:00 AM
End Date
27-10-2018 10:30 AM
DOI
10.33107/ubt-ic.2018.17
Recommended Citation
Patkós, Csaba, "LEADER rural development action groups in Central-Eastern Europe" (2018). UBT International Conference. 17.
https://knowledgecenter.ubt-uni.net/conference/2018/all-events/17
LEADER rural development action groups in Central-Eastern Europe
Pristina, Kosovo
Rural areas are among the zones negatively affected by socio-economic consequences of globalization. The development of lagging behind regions has a multi-decade history in Europe. A broad range of methods of regional development methods has been used to realize common objectives. According to experiences universal development methods are rarely able to solve local specific challenges. Place-sensitive bottom-up development methods can help tackling these problems.The LEADER (Liaison entre actions de développement de l'économie rurale) method has been introduced in the European Union at the beginning of the 1990s. Since that date is has become one of the most successful community initiatives and now it is an integrated part of rural and urban development (community-led local development – CLLD).After the EU access of Central and Eastern European countries LEADER method was introduced to these states as well. Our recent article concentrates on the experiences of four countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) in the implementation of this program. Some specialities will be presented in the spatial, symbolic, institutional and functional dimensions of LEADER local action groups in the related countries.The research is based on a wide variety of methods such as the analysis of official European statistical databases, the content analysis of local development strategies and questionnaire surveys.