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Transactions: WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT
Transactions ID Number: 27-612
Full Name: Rui Ramos
Position: Assistant Professor
Age: ON
Sex: Male
Address: University of Minho - Dep. of Civil Engineering, Campus Gualtar, Braga
Country: PORTUGAL
Tel: 253604726
Tel prefix: 351
Fax: 253604721
E-mail address: rui.ramos@civil.uminho.pt
Other E-mails: ruiramoseng@gmail.com
Title of the Paper: Rural areas towards a challenge to territorial governance: the case of the Portuguese municipality of Almeida.
Authors as they appear in the Paper: Fernando P. Fonseca, Rui A. R. Ramos
Email addresses of all the authors: ffonseka@gmail.com, rui.ramos@civil.uminho.pt
Number of paper pages: 11
Abstract: Rural development is a multidimensional process. To be successful, the development strategies in rural areas should be supported in appropriate governance patterns in order to stimulate the dialog and the cooperation between public and private entities. In fact, local governance is often a key factor of rural development, allowing the integration of objectives and policies, establishing relations of power distribution, and defining resources, accountability, priorities and choices. Thus, territorial governance reflects the local capacity of involvement and cooperation in the development process, the degree of organisational innovation to surpass internal debilities and the external concurrence. Consequently, territorial governance configures a sustainable perspective of development and takes important territorial core values such as coherence and diversity in areas under pressure, such as the peripheral rural areas. This paper aims at analysing a particular and par!
adigmatic Portuguese rural and peripheral territory, the municipality of Almeida that is living a trend of socio-economic decline. Anchored on a research developed in this territory, the paper attempts to examine the characteristics and reasons of the present governance structure, its reflexes in the local (sub)development, and the opinion and position of some influent entities in a context of a new governance. Furthermore, the paper explores and highlights the benefits and constraints that emerge when governance is contextualised in rural territories, once it poses several questions and challenges to the local capacity of institutional articulation. Due to the same nature of the problems involved, the main conclusions obtained could be extrapolated to much more rural and peripheral territories.
Keywords: Rural development, Sustainable development; Territorial governance, Almeida.
EXTENSION of the file: .pdf
Special (Invited) Session: Territorial governance and the sustainable development in rural territories: an imperative or a utopia? The case of Almeida (Portugal)
Organizer of the Session: 588-275
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