Territorial governance: local development, rural areas and agrofood systems

This work aims to present the most recent developments regarding territorial governance, placing particular emphasis on rural and periurban areas. The reader will find information on the processes of development of European regions, as well as on the behaviours and strategies adopted by the different actors who live in these territories and contribute to the latter's livelihood. The first part of the book analyses the structural changes in the modes of productionthat have affected these territories. The second part addresses the questionsof methodology and of the structures of governance of local development in rural areas. The last section makes an assessment of the geographical indications as tools of governance of local agrifood chains. The book was written by economists, geographers, land use planners and specialists of the questions of governance and management of rural and periurban areas. Results about the new state of local governance First presentation of the new governance mechanisms implemented in rural and periurban European regions Information about the current development processes within various rural and periurban European regions

• ISBN: 978-3-7908-2421-6
• Editorial: Physica
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 200
• Fecha Publicación: 01/11/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés