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Social capital and governance for sustainable rural development

Go, Frank M. and Trunfio, Mariapina and Della Lucia, Maria (2013): Social capital and governance for sustainable rural development. Studies in Agricultural Economics, 115 (2). pp. 104-110. ISSN 2063 0476

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Abstract

Though policy openings for support from the ‘new rural paradigm’ look promising, market access through sustainability-led economic organisations in fragmented rural areas is not easy. This paper analyses the implications of the interactive embedded governance model framed by the structural, cognitive and relational dimensions of social capital and hence the firms’ ability to engage with networked stakeholders in bottom-up knowledge-sharing for innovation. We show how, in the case of three marginal rural villages in the province of Trentino, Italy, this approach was used to raise stakeholders’ awareness that the local identity and heritage resources represent assets that given appropriate knowledge sharing could be converted into ‘authentic’ tourism products. The study illustrates the critical importance of such non-economic factors for achieving sustainable rural development.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: social capital, embedded governance, stakeholders’ engagement, knowledge sharing, market failures, sustainable rural tourism
Subjects: Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics – Environmental and Ecological Economics
Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics – Environmental and Ecological Economics > Q00 - General
Depositing User: István Ady
Date Deposited: 06 Feb 2018 17:03
Last Modified: 06 Feb 2018 17:03
URI: http://repo.aki.gov.hu/id/eprint/2176

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