Reading Time: 2 minutes2024 is a pivotal year for democracies in more ways than one. Mounting economic inequities are threatening democracies and these threats can only be mitigated by an “urgent and focused” shared effort.
Category: Rural
The twin transition: How are regions adapting to changing labour market and skills demands?
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe twin transition alters labor markets, necessitating new skills and job creation. Learn how some regions adapt uniquely, leveraging strengths to address challenges such as skill gaps, demographic pressures, and workforce shortages.
Re-energising ESG standards to improve well-being in mining regions
Reading Time: 3 minutesWith increasing demand for minerals and Environmental Social Governance (ESG) standards in the mining industry, it is important that communities, the private sector and other stakeholders collaborate effectively.
Land-Use Policies: Local Solutions for Global Challenges
Reading Time: 4 minutesWhat role can land use policies play in addressing global challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and demographic shifts?
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?