Transitioning towards a Sustainable Wellbeing Economy—Implications for Rural–Urban Relations
This article focuses on the question of how a shift from a narrow economic perspective to a wider sustainable wellbeing focus in regional development strategies and actions might change rural–urban relations. A brief review of relevant research and discourses about economic development models provid...
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| author | Karlheinz Knickel Alexandra Almeida Francesca Galli Kerstin Hausegger-Nestelberger Bryonny Goodwin-Hawkins Mojca Hrabar Daniel Keech Marina Knickel Olli Lehtonen Damian Maye Irune Ruiz-Martinez Sandra Šūmane Hans Vulto Johannes S. C. Wiskerke |
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| description | This article focuses on the question of how a shift from a narrow economic perspective to a wider sustainable wellbeing focus in regional development strategies and actions might change rural–urban relations. A brief review of relevant research and discourses about economic development models provides the foundation for the analysis. The review leads to the development of an analytical framework that puts the notion of sustainable wellbeing at its center. The criteria included in the analytical framework are then used to assess the current situation, challenges and perceived ways forward based on data and analyses from 11 European regions. The focus of the analysis is on different expressions of a sustainable wellbeing economy, and aspects of territorial development that are consistent with the basic features of a wellbeing economy are identified. Development dynamics and tensions between different development goals and resource uses, strategies and actions that are in favor of sustainable wellbeing goals, and conditions for more mutually beneficial rural–urban relationships are discussed. The article concludes with the implications for local government, and governance and policy frameworks. Reference is made to current high-level strategic policy frameworks and the European Green Deal. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-65fd122438a74c09b083fd9053e47a9b2023-11-21T19:09:28ZengMDPI AGLand2073-445X2021-05-0110551210.3390/land10050512Transitioning towards a Sustainable Wellbeing Economy—Implications for Rural–Urban RelationsKarlheinz Knickel0Alexandra Almeida1Francesca Galli2Kerstin Hausegger-Nestelberger3Bryonny Goodwin-Hawkins4Mojca Hrabar5Daniel Keech6Marina Knickel7Olli Lehtonen8Damian Maye9Irune Ruiz-Martinez10Sandra Šūmane11Hans Vulto12Johannes S. C. Wiskerke13HELSUS—Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science, Department of Economics and Management, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Helsinki, FI-00014 Helsinki, FinlandComissão de Coordenação e Desenvolvimento Regional de Lisboa e Vale do Tejo (CCDR-LVT), 1269-053 Lisbon, PortugalDepartment of Agriculture, University of Pisa, Food and Environment (DAFE), I-56124 Pisa, ItalyRegionalmanagement Steirischer Zentralraum, A-8010 Graz, AustriaCountryside and Community Research Institute, University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham GL50 2RH, UKOikos, Sustainable Development, Inc., SI-1241 Ljubljana-Kamnik, SloveniaCountryside and Community Research Institute, University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham GL50 2RH, UKDepartment of Agriculture, University of Pisa, Food and Environment (DAFE), I-56124 Pisa, ItalyNatural Resources Institute Finland (LUKE), FI-00790 Helsinki, FinlandCountryside and Community Research Institute, University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham GL50 2RH, UKInstitute of Local Development, University of València, ES-46010 València, SpainBaltic Studies Centre, LV-1014 Rīga, LatviaMunicipality of Ede, NL-6877 Ede, The NetherlandsRural Sociology Group (RSO), Section Space, Place and Society (SPS), Wageningen University, NL-6700 HB Wageningen, The NetherlandsThis article focuses on the question of how a shift from a narrow economic perspective to a wider sustainable wellbeing focus in regional development strategies and actions might change rural–urban relations. A brief review of relevant research and discourses about economic development models provides the foundation for the analysis. The review leads to the development of an analytical framework that puts the notion of sustainable wellbeing at its center. The criteria included in the analytical framework are then used to assess the current situation, challenges and perceived ways forward based on data and analyses from 11 European regions. The focus of the analysis is on different expressions of a sustainable wellbeing economy, and aspects of territorial development that are consistent with the basic features of a wellbeing economy are identified. Development dynamics and tensions between different development goals and resource uses, strategies and actions that are in favor of sustainable wellbeing goals, and conditions for more mutually beneficial rural–urban relationships are discussed. The article concludes with the implications for local government, and governance and policy frameworks. Reference is made to current high-level strategic policy frameworks and the European Green Deal.https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/10/5/512sustainable wellbeingrural–urban relationsland managementlocal governmentgovernancepolicy |
| spellingShingle | Karlheinz Knickel Alexandra Almeida Francesca Galli Kerstin Hausegger-Nestelberger Bryonny Goodwin-Hawkins Mojca Hrabar Daniel Keech Marina Knickel Olli Lehtonen Damian Maye Irune Ruiz-Martinez Sandra Šūmane Hans Vulto Johannes S. C. Wiskerke Transitioning towards a Sustainable Wellbeing Economy—Implications for Rural–Urban Relations Land sustainable wellbeing rural–urban relations land management local government governance policy |
| title | Transitioning towards a Sustainable Wellbeing Economy—Implications for Rural–Urban Relations |
| title_full | Transitioning towards a Sustainable Wellbeing Economy—Implications for Rural–Urban Relations |
| title_fullStr | Transitioning towards a Sustainable Wellbeing Economy—Implications for Rural–Urban Relations |
| title_full_unstemmed | Transitioning towards a Sustainable Wellbeing Economy—Implications for Rural–Urban Relations |
| title_short | Transitioning towards a Sustainable Wellbeing Economy—Implications for Rural–Urban Relations |
| title_sort | transitioning towards a sustainable wellbeing economy implications for rural urban relations |
| topic | sustainable wellbeing rural–urban relations land management local government governance policy |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/10/5/512 |
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