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"Rural potentials for regional development"
From November 27 to 28 2008 "Rural Potentials for Regional Development" took place in Vienna, a joint conference of the 6th Framework Programme projects TERESA and ETUDE. On two days, the main contemporary issues in rural development policy were discussed by scientists and politicians from all over Europe.
On this page you can find all presentations and discussion workshop reports from the conference as pdf-downloads (for pdf-files get the Adobe® Reader).
General downloads
- Picture gallery of day 1
- Picture gallery of day 2
- Original agenda
- All presentations as a single zip-file (6,8 MB!)
Thursday 27th November: Regions engaging in rural development: The impact of policy strategies
Introducing plenary presentations
Welcoming address
- Reinhard Mang (Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management, Austria)
- Erich Dallhammer (ÖIR/TERESA): Introduction
Introducing day 1
- Franz Fischler (former Commissioner for Agriculture, Rural Development and Fisheries, Franz Fischler Consult, Austria): Europe’s Rural Future
Introducing day 2
- Andy Stirling (Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex): Resilience in Rural Development
Thematic plenary presentations
- Han Wiskerke (Wageningen University/ETUDE): The Rural Web
- Kees de Roest (Research Center for Animal Production, Reggio Emilia): The role of agriculture in rural development today
- Liisa Häme (Leader Network Finland): Local capacity (social capital) as resource in rural development
Parallel thematic discussion presentations
I: How can the structural separation of rural and regional development be challenged?
- Chair: Marte Bjørnsen (Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research, Oslo)
- Erich Dallhammer (ÖIR/TERESA): 5 Challenges and 5 Hypothesis
- Han Wiskerke (Wageningen University/ETUDE): Regional differentiation
- Rapporteur: Steinar Johansen (Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research, Oslo)
II: What makes rural regions successful and what is the role agriculture plays?
- Chair: Cosmin Salasaan (Center for Rural Assistance, Timişoara)
- Bernd Schuh (ÖIR/TERESA, Vienna)
- Flaminia Ventura (Perugia University/ETUDE, Periugia): Rural web and role of agriculture
- Kees de Roest (Research Center for Animal Production, Reggio Emilia)
- Rapporteur: Thomas Streifeneder (EURAC Research, Bozen/Bolzano)
III: What is the contribution of local capacity to rural development?
- Chair: Ruud Kempener (Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex, Brighton)
- Thomas Dax (Federal Institute for Less Favoured and Mountainous Areas/TERESA, Vienna): What is the contribution of local capacity to rural development?
- Pierluigi Milone (Perugia University/ETUDE, Perugia): The rural web in the High Tiber Valley
- Liisa Häme (Leader Network Finland, Kajaani)
- Rapporteur: Pat Enright (University College Cork, Cork): Report
Friday 28th November: Regions dealing with disturbances: Resilience and diversification
Thematic plenary presentations
- Rebecka Milestad (Dept. of Urban and Rural Studies & Centre for Sustainable Agriculture, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala): Building resilience of rural areas
- Guillaume Deffuant (CEMAGREF, Laboratoire d'Ingénierie des Systèmes Complexes, Aubière Cedex): Managing resilience and Viability: From formal concepts to practical application
- Ruud Kempener (Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex, Brighton): Diversification within rural areas and resilience – the TERESA agent-based model
Parallel thematic discussion presentations
I: When is further diversification desirable for sustainable rural development?
- Chair: Bernd Schuh (ÖIR/TERESA, Vienna)
- Ruud Kempener (SPRU/University of Sussex/TERESA, Brighton): When is further diversification desirable for sustainable rural development?
- Han Wiskerke (Wageningen University/ETUDE, Wageningen): Is diversification desirable?
- Rebecka Milestad (Dept. of Urban and Rural Studies & Centre for Sustainable Agriculture, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala)
- Rapporteur: Sebastian Beiglböck (ÖIR/TERESA, Vienna)
II: Which policies and strategies would make rural areas more resilient?
- Chair: Erich Dallhammer (ÖIR/TERESA)
- Sigrid Stagl (SPRU, University of Sussex/TERESA, Brighton)
- Pierluigi Milone (Perugia University/ETUDE, Perugia): Rural areas: a new policy perspective
- Guillaume Deffuant (CEMAGREF, Laboratoire d'Ingénierie des Systèmes Complexes, Aubière Cedex)
- Rapporteur: Marte Bjørnsen (Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research, Oslo): Report
Thank yous
- Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management for providing the rooms
- ETUDE research project
- wineries: Baumgartner, Blaha, Renner, Waldschütz, Weiß
- Gailtal alpine dairy farmers' association for providing their mountain cheese
- weinpanorama.at for facilitating the wine tasting
