Labels: Announcements, développement local, Governance, Innovation, News-Nouvelles, OECD, Policy
Source: Bill Reimer and Bruno Jean
Québec signed the Third Rural Policy into law last December. Bill and Bruno have prepared a short summary of the key elements of this policy (in English) to encourage you to look more closely at this innovative approach to rural development.
You can access the summary via: http://billreimer.ca/workshop/research/files/ReimerJeanCommentsOnThe3rdRuralPolicyOfQuebec20140314.pdf.
Labels: Education, OECD, Study-Étude
Source: Journal of research in rural education.
"Communities play a critical role in supporting pre-service teachers during rural and regional professional experience. This support, coupled with access to teacher educators and university resources, appears to positively influence graduate attitudes toward taking up a rural appointment."
"These are among the key findings to emerge from open-ended responses within 263 surveys completed for the Rethinking Teacher Education for Rural and Regional Sustainability—Renewing Teacher Education for Rural and Regional Australia project (TERRAnova). The national surveys, collected annually from 2008-2010, monitored the impact of state-based financial incentives designed to promote rural and regional professional experience. Findings discussed in this article have implications for teacher educators and rural school leaders as they work in partnership with communities to support pre-service teachers on rural and regional practicum."
Kline, Jodie, White, Simone and Lock, Graeme 2013, The rural practicum : preparing a quality teacher workforce for rural and regional Australia, Journal of research in rural education, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 1-13.
WWW: www.jrre.psu.edu
Labels: Economy, Governance, OECD, Rural-urban
Source: OECD.
The OECD 9th Rural Development Policy Conference will be held on 23-25 October, 2013 in Bologna, Italy. The conference will launch the report “Rural-Urban partnerships: an integrated approach to economic development”, which is the result of the RURBAN project in collaboration with the European Commission.
The conference will consist of key note addresses, plenary sessions and pre-conference workshops. There will be ample scope for open discussion of the key themes both during the conference sessions and at less formal events.
More information.
WWW: www.oecd.org/gov/regional-policy
Labels: International, North, OECD, Policy, Presentation, Resources
Source: OECD.
The presentations of the OECD 8th Rural Development Policy Conference are now available online.
Pre-conference workshops presentations.
Main conference presentations.
WWW: www.oecd.org/rural
Labels: Agriculture, Land use, OECD, Report-Rapport
Source: RIRDC.
This report presents the first ever comprehensive national study of rural land ownership in Australia. Changing patterns of rural land ownership provide important evidence on the character of rural restructuring.The report presents rural land ownership data across the six states of Australia. Data available at the time has limited the scope of this project to a period between 2004 and 2008.
This report provides important insights for investors and policy-makers keen to understand the dynamics of how changing patterns of land ownership intersect with rural economy and society. In particular, it has relevance for stakeholders in industry, public policy and research communities interested in the productive and environmental ramifications of changing patterns of land ownership.
Download full report: "Rural Land in Australia: A framework for the measurement and analysis of nationwide patterns of ownership change, aggregation and fragmentation".
WWW: www.rirdc.gov.au
Labels: Energy, OECD, Report-Rapport, Resources
Source: Nordregio.
"In many countries, renewable energy is highly prioritized, not only as a means of addressing environmental and energy security issues, but also as a potentially significant source of new employment, especially in rural areas throughout the OECD. One of the most important questions for policymakers is whether renewable energy can assist the development of rural economies."
"In response, this brief presents the results of a two-year project led by the OECD. The findings indicate that policy focused on the potential for renewable energy in the process of rural development should be cross-sector and place based. (...) The results also indicate that while renewable energy has the ability to create new jobs, we should not exaggerate its potential. Overall, renewable energy is potentially useful for all rural and low-population-density regions, but mainly in shifting a community facing structural economic downturn to a new lower economic equilibrium."
Read Nordregio Policy Brief 2012:5
WWW: www.nordregio.se
Labels: Health, International, OECD, Report-Rapport
Source: Rural Doctors Association of Australia.
The purpose of this survey was to learn more about issues facing specialist medical practitioners who live and work in regional, rural and remote areas of Australia with a focus on:
• The provision of training across regional, rural and remote Australia and identification of enablers and challenges to the provision of training, models of training and awareness of the Specialist Training Program (STP).
• Current use of the Australian Governments telehealth initiative aimed at improving access to specialist services in rural areas.
• Incentives to increase the recruitment and retention of medical specialists in regional, rural and remote areas of Australia.
Read full report.
WWW: www.rdaa.com.au
Labels: Aboriginal, Governance, International, OECD, Report-Rapport
Source: Australian Centre of Excellence for Local Government.
ACELG has released a new study that considers whether rural-remote and Indigenous local governments (RRI) in Australia have developed robust community engagement processes.
The research explored:
1. What community engagement RRI local government in Australia undertakes.
2. Barriers and unique challenges RRI local governments face when engaging with their communities.
3. Community engagement strategies and methodologies RRI local governments find effective and ineffective.
4. Gaps in the community engagement knowledge and resources of RRI local government, and
5. The most useful options for improving community engagement by RRI local government.
Findings confirm the varying capacity of RRI local governments in engaging with their communities, and key observations include:
1. RRI local government generally recognises the central role of community engagement in supporting local government to effectively perform its role but overall these practices are still largely in their developmental phase.
2. Top challenges to RRI local government community engagement related to internal capacity constraints, community capacity constraints and external factors.
3. The most practical options for supporting RRI local government community engagement related to council and community education, internal community engagement skill development and engaging culturally diverse groups.
Read full report.
Read summary.
WWW: http://www.acelg.org.au/news-detail.php?id=273
Labels: Environment, OECD, Report-Rapport, RuralTube
Source: Centre for Housing, Urban and Regional Planning, University of Adelaide.
"Across Australia many of rural communities are already under threat, and climate change will put extra pressure on them, which will lead to extinction" said Professor Andrew Beer, University of Adelaide.
"The cost of dealing with extreme weather events will rise to the point where people will wonder whether it's worthwhile staying in these places," he said.
This report considers the impact of climate change on Australia’s country towns out to the year 2050 and the capacity of this component of Australia’s settlement system to adapt. This report is the first output from this project and presents the findings from the initial stages of the investigation. Later reports will present a fuller picture as the outputs of additional stages of analysis are presented.
Read full report.
Watch an interview of Professor Andrew Beer about climate change and the effect it has on rural Australian communities.
WWW: www.adelaide.edu.au/churp
Labels: Health, OECD, Study-Étude, Transportation
Source: Monash University, Accident Research Centre.
This study was conducted by Monash University Accident Research Centre (MUARC) in collaboration with the Baw Baw Shire Council. The study identifies the issues that impact regional cyclists and drivers as they share regional/rural roads.
The study was conducted in three stages: a literature review, an analysis of existing data from residents in the Baw Baw Shire area and an online survey.
The review of the published literature was conducted to identify the types of issues that had been reported to be of safety concerns for cyclists in regional and rural areas.
Read full report.
WWW: www.monash.edu.au/miri
Labels: E-book, International, OECD, Youth
Source: Melbourne University Publishing.
Young People Making it Work examines a generation’s lives in rural Australia over the last two decades. Against a backdrop of dramatic social, economic and environmental change, the book tells the story of how a generation of young people have strived to remain connected to the people and places that matter to them.
It transcends the assumption that rural places are one of deficit and disadvantage to focus on the ways in which powerful narratives of belonging are conceptualised.
Now aged in their late thirties, these are participants in the Youth Research Centre’s Life Patterns longitudinal study who left school in the early 1990s.
Hernan Cuervo and Johanna Wyn (2012). Young People Making it Work. (e-book) Melbourne University Publishing.
WWW: http://web.mup.unimelb.edu.au/e-store/
Labels: E-book, International, OECD, Services, Society
Source: Allen & Unwin.
Social work practice in a country town or small remote community several hours' drive from the nearest centre is very different from practice in the city. Social Work in Rural Australia offers an introduction to the challenges and rewards of professional practice in rural and remote areas.
The authors explore the practical implications for social workers in non-urban regions, including teamwork with professionals from other fields, working with various sub-groups in communities and across distance with other social work colleagues, the diversity of rural livelihoods and lifestyles, and increasingly pressing environmental issues. Social work theories and case studies demonstrate how enabling practice can promote clients' and communities' ability to deal with some of the challenges of housing, youth unemployment, child protection, ageing, mental health, disability and the obstacles faced by Indigenous, migrant and refugee populations, in specific geographical settings.
Jane Maidment and Uschi Bay (Ed.) (2012) Social Work in Rural Australia, Enabling practice. Allen & Unwin.
More about this book.
WWW: www.allenandunwin.com
Labels: Call, Competitiveness, Innovation, Labour, OECD
Source: OECD.
The OECD 8th Rural Development Policy Conference “Innovation and Modernising the Rural Economy” will be held on 3-5 October, 2012, at the SIBERIA International Business Exhibition Centre in Krasnoyarsk, Russia.
This year the conference will focus on two themes: Innovation in the context of rural areas and Mordernising the rural economy. Within these two policy streams several topics will be discussed, including:
* Skill building - moving from lifetime employment to lifetime employability in rural areas
* Diversification - broadening the local economy
* Strong rural markets - improving the competitiveness of rural economies
* Innovation - exploring new rural governance models
* Innovation systems and processes - enhancing the links between producers and end users
* Identifying mechanisms to support innovation in rural areas
The deadline for abstract submission is May 21, 2012.
Read full call for papers.
WWW: www.oecd.org
Labels: Business, OECD, Report-Rapport, Society
Source: Plunkett Foundation.
Social enterprises are increasingly being developed by rural communities to take control of the issues affecting them, states a new report from Plunkett Foundation commissioned by Defra.
The Review of Rural Social Enterprise in England is the first systematic review of the many various forms of community led social enterprise across rural England and the impact they have on rural communities.
The report was commissioned by the Rural Communities Policy Unit within Defra and was supported by the Office for Civil Society within the Cabinet Office. The report can be downloaded here.
WWW: www.plunkett.co.uk
Labels: Agriculture, Energy, OECD, Report-Rapport, Resources
Source: CSIRO.
CSIRO’s Energy Transformed Flagship has undertaken a preliminary study to consider community acceptance of wind farms from a variety of stakeholder perspectives.
"The Australian Government’s Renewable Energy Target (RET) requires that 20 per cent of Australia’s electricity be produced from renewable energy sources by 2020. Previous projections anticipate that wind technology could contribute to the majority of this target (for example, see ROAM Consulting, 20101).
Given this target and interest in wind farm development, CSIRO has explored community acceptance of the technology.
The preliminary study produced four key findings:
1. There is strong community support for the development of wind farms.
2. Many of the benefits can be shared or communicated in ways that would enhance community support for the development of wind farms in a region.
3. Existing regulatory approaches provide an appropriate framework for negotiating wind farm developments, but there is scope for improving outcomes.
4. The emerging notion of a ‘Social Licence to Operate’ provides a useful framework for wind farm developers to engage local communities in ways that could enhance transparency and local support."
Read Report.
Read Summary.
WWW: www.csiro.au
Source: National Institute for Rural & Regional Australia.
NIRRA will be hosting a Rural Communities Conference on 18-20 April 2012, at Narrabri in rural NSW.
This conference will be for social researchers working the rural space, looking at the key issues raised in the Visioning the Future of Rural & Regional Australia scoping study. The conference includes a seminar and workshop on rural futures.
Click here for further details.
WWW: http://nirra.anu.edu.au
Labels: Data-Données, OECD, Report-Rapport
Source: OECD.
The 2011 Edition of OECD Regions at a Glance, offers a statistical snapshot of how life is lived – and can be improved – from region to region in the OECD area and emerging economies.
The publication provides regional and national comparative statistics around 3 main areas:
1. Regions as drivers for competitiveness
2. Inclusion and equal access to quality services in regions
3. Environmental sustainability in regions and metropolitan areas
and examines trends across a wide range of topics, including:
* demography and migration
* economic growth
* employment and productivity
* knowledge-based activities
* education
* health care
* income
* environmental conditions
For the first time, an interactive edition including maps and graphs, shareable data and country links unlocks the wealth of information behind this book to help you better see, understand and explore the range of data and findings that shape our regions.
Coming soon will be the Regional Outlook 2011, First Edition. This publication will integrate, with analysis of institutional and policy determinants, the statistics presented in Regions at a Glance 2011.
2011 Edition of OECD Regions at a Glance.
Interactive edition of OECD Regions at a Glance.
WWW: www.oecd.org
Labels: OECD, Report-Rapport, Transportation
Source: International Transport Forum.
"Transport in rural and remote regions receives considerable attention in research, but this is often focussed on specific means of resolving problems in those regions – for example, the role of demand-responsive bus services, or scope for attracting users to rail services."
"The aim of this paper is to take a broader view, firstly in defining what constitute “rural and remote regions”, and secondly in considering a wide range of public transport options available. Experience in Britain will be taken as a starting point, since extensive research has been conducted here, and rural issues are also a focus of much public debate at present. Findings from other European countries will also be examined."
Read full report.
WWW: www.internationaltransportforum.org
Labels: Agriculture, Demography, Labour, OECD, Podcast
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has run rural stories featuring news about the labour shortages in rural Australia, the potential for "grey nomads", and the experiences of "grey nomads" on the harvest trail.
Podcast: labour shortages in rural Australia.
Podcast: the potential for "grey nomads".
Podcast: the experiences of "grey nomads" on the harvest trail.
WWW: www.abc.net.au
Labels: OECD, Rural-urban, Study-Étude
Source: OECD.
To account for differences among rural and urban regions, the OECD established a regional typology, classifying TL3 regions as predominantly urban (PU), intermediate (IN) or predominantly rural (PR) (OECD, 2009). In this study, the OECD regional typology is extended to include an accessibility criterion.
The OECD regional typology, based essentially on the percentage of regional population living in urban or rural communities, has proved to be meaningful to better explain regional differences in economic and labour market performance. However this typology does not take into account the presence of economic agglomerations if they happen to be in neighbouring regions. For example, a region is classified as rural or intermediate regardless its distance from a large urban centre where labour market, access to services, education opportunities and logistics for firms can be wider.
Previous work reveals great heterogeneity in economic growth among rural regions and the distance from a populated centre could be a significant factor explaining these differences. For the latter, the OECD regional typology is extended to include an accessibility criterion. This criterion is based on the driving time needed for at least half of the population in a region to reach a populated centre of with 50,000 or more inhabitants.
The resulting classification consists of four types of regions: Predominantly Urban (PU), Intermediate (IN), Predominantly Rural Close to a city (PRC) and Predominantly Rural Remote (PRR). For the time being, the extended typology has only been computed for regions in North America (Canada, Mexico and the United States) and Europe. The extended typology is used to compare the dynamics of population and labour markets. Remote rural regions show a stronger decline in population and a faster ageing process than rural regions close to a city.
The remoteness of rural regions is in fact a significant factor explaining regional outflows of working age population, confirming that this extended typology captures the economic distance from market and services. Remote rural regions appear economically more fragile: lower employment rates (Canada and Mexico) and economic output (Europe).
Read full study (PDF). OECD Extended Regional Typology: The Economic Performance of Remote Rural Regions You or your institution have access to this content. Authors: Monica Brezzi, Lewis Dijkstra, Vicente Ruiz. Publication Date: 2 Aug 2011.
WWW: www.oecd-ilibrary.org
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