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Developing Europe's Rural Regions in the Era of Globalization (DERREG)

Summary: DERREG sought to develop understanding of rural development in the era of globalization by examining globalization processes, local effects and experiences, and regional development responses in ten case study regions in EU Member States.

Overall purpose:

1. Enrich the scientific evidence base for understanding globalization-led restructuring in rural regions by developing an integrated analysis of multiple forms of global engagement;
2. Promote best practice in regional development responses to challenges associated with globalization-led restructuring;
3. Provide new insights into the challenges associated with particular processes of change, including the global engagement of rural enterprises, international migration, and the globalization of environmental discourses;
4. Develop understanding of the different challenges facing different types of rural regions; and
5. Establish a web-based resource centre to facilitate and coordinate the dissemination and accessibility of information to researchers and regional development agents.

Results and recommendations: Results are a collection of information and conference materials (documents available on the project website): Policy brief from March 2011 reporting on emerging project findings and policy; Global engagement and local embeddedness of rural business; International mobility and migration of rural populations recommendations; Capacity building, governance and knowledge systems; Regions Engaging Globalization: A typology of regional responses in rural Europe; Regional Resilience and the Global Environment: Multiple Scales of Environmental Discourse in Rural Development Policy; Positive thinking: Rural communities can benefit from globalisation; Environmental Capital and Sustainable Rural Development; Summary Report from the DERREG Project, October 2011. The final outcome is: an interpretative model identifying challenges and opportunities associated with globalization for different types of rural region with different degrees of exposure to globalization processes, accessible via the website and linked to a database of best practice examples, assembled from case study research.

EAFRD priority areas and themes: Competitiveness of agriculture and forestry; Environment and sustainable resource management; Quality of life and economic diversification; Horizontal aspects,

Main target end users: Policy makers, rural practitioners and wider stakeholders.

Project partners: Nine partners, see project website section https://www.derreg.eu/content/derreg-partners

Project study regions: Research focused on ten case study regions in eight EU countries – see https://www.derreg.eu/content/case-study-areas

Language(s): EN

Funding source: EU FP7

Start and end date: 2009-2011

Website: https://www.derreg.eu/

Project contact:
https://www.derreg.eu/contact