Reading Time: 4 minutesWhat role can land use policies play in addressing global challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and demographic shifts?
Category: Rural
Regions are growing apart but they don’t have to
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe OECD Regional Outlook 2023 shows that metropolitan areas are racing ahead with GDP per-capita averaging 30% more than other regions in most OECD countries. How can we reverse this trend?
A creative countryside: How Scotland, UK is promoting rural innovation
Reading Time: 4 minutesTo survive and thrive, rural, remote and island communities must be entrepreneurial, innovative, and cooperative. Jane Craigie discusses how Scotland’s rural areas are key drivers in innovation and growth.
Where next for Europe’s “left-behind places”?
Reading Time: 3 minutesA place-based approach will support regions to realise their aspirations of no longer being left behind. But what is that and how should they do it?
The final frontier: why are women further from labour parity in some non-metropolitan areas ?
Reading Time: 4 minutesWomen tend to be very active in the labour force in remote rural areas, but not in other non-metropolitan regions. Is it all about unpaid care work?
Thinking about new year resolutions… thinking about rural futures
Reading Time: 4 minutesDuring this end-of-year period as most of us consider what we can do better in 2023, policy makers are also thinking about how to create a better future for rural citizens. It’s hugely important in the aftermath of COVID-19 and the rapid economic, ecological, demographic and geopolitical changes that are underway in rural communities.
Rural revelations: Innovation is not just for cities
Reading Time: 3 minutesYet innovation in rural places tends to follow a different path – focusing on improving production processes, business models or social innovations that are not uniquely profit-driven.
Selective service – how gaps in public provision are undermining life chances in rural communities
Reading Time: 4 minutesDespite decades of national progress, rural communities still have difficulty in accessing modern education and health services. In education, about a quarter of primary schools in the world did not have access to basic services such as electricity, drinking water and sanitation in 2020.