D5.2i: Alytus Contextual Report

Authors: Laura Jones, Michael Woods and NeVork partners. Statistical report establishing the political, economic and social contexts of the case study region prior to undertaking empirical research.

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D5.2h: Goriška Contextual Report

Authors: Laura Jones, Michael Woods and UL Partners. Statistical report establishing the political, economic and social contexts of the case study region prior to undertaking empirical research.

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WP3: Work Package Summary Report

This report summarises the work carried out between 2009 and 2011 by the five DERREG project partners responsible for Workpackage 3:‘Environmental Capital and Sustainable Rural Development. This research has considered how European rural regions are balancing the dual needs of protecting their environmental capital and, simultaneously, promoting economic and social sustainable development through case studies in Germany, Czech Republic, Ireland and Slovenia.

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Book Chapter: ‘Local embeddedness and global links in rural areas’

Dubois A, Copus A, and Hedstrom M (2011, forthcoming) ‘Local embeddedness and global links in rural areas: Euclidean and relational space in business networks’. In Hedberg C and Carmo R (eds.): ‘Translocal Ruralism’: Mobility and Connectivity in European Rural Space. Springer.

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Positive thinking: Rural communities can benefit from globalisation

Article from Socio-economic and Humanities Research for Policy News Alert Service, September 2011

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Regional Resilience and the Global Environment: Multiple Scales of Environmental Discourse in Rural Development Policy

Authors: Michael Woods (AU), Joachim Burdack and Michael Kriszan (IfL)
Summary of plenary paper presented to the Regional Studies Association Winter Conference, November 2010.

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Regions Engaging Globalization: A typology of regional responses in rural Europe

Author: Michael Woods.
Paper presented to the Quadrennial Anglo-American-Canadian Rural Geography Conference, July 2011

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WP4: Work Package Summary Report

This report summarises work carried out between 2009 and 2011 by the six DERREG partner institutions involved in work package 4 (WP4): ‘Capacity building, governance and knowledge systems’. The leading research question in WP4 was how to (best) arrange support for joint learning and innovation in rural grassroots development initiatives, and this is considered across case study areas in the Netherlands, Germany, Ireland, Lithuania and Spain.

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WP2: Work Package Summary Report

This report summarises the work carried out between 2009 and 2011 by the six DERREG project partners responsible for Workpackage 2:‘International mobility and migration of rural populations’. It explores and compares the enrolment of Europe’s rural regions in international flows of mobility by focusing on case study regions in Germany, Lithuania, Sweden, Ireland and Slovenia.

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