Muehlinghaus Waelty Elsasser
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Completed research project
| Title / Titel | Endogenous Development and Local Initiatives in Mountainous Communities in Switzerland | ||||||
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| Original title / Originaltitel | Eigenständige Regionalentwicklung und lokale Initiativen im Schweizer Berggebiet | ||||||
| Summary / Zusammenfassung | The reorganization of agriculture policy as well as structural changes of the economy and the stagnation in the Swiss tourism industry lead to a changed context and new challenges for rural regions. Endogenous regional development is a development strategy, which is based on regional necessities, locally available resources and the activation of endogenous potentials. An essential element of the strategy is the broad participation of the local population in the initiating, planning, implementing and monitoring of the process of development. The aim of this study is to investigate under what conditions and to what extent endogenous regional development is a strategy for mountainous communities for facing contemporary challenges and problems. The dissertation is part of the international „Community Evaluation Project“ which aims at comparing regional development strategies in three industrialized countries: Switzerland, USA and Japan. Such a comparison is interesting because in these three countries, rural communities are facing similar problems in spite of their very different historical and cultural background. |
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| Publications / Publikationen | Mühlinghaus, Sabine (2002): Eigenständige Regionalentwicklung im Schweizer Berggebiet - Umsetzungsprozesse, Erfolgsaussichten und Förderansätze. St. Gallen: Ostschweizerische Geographische Gesellschaft | ||||||
| Keywords / Suchbegriffe | Regionalentwicklung, Berggebiet, Alpen, Regionalpolitik, endogene Entwicklung, lokale Initiativen,, Regional Development, Mountainous Areas, Alps, Regional Policy, Endogenous Development, Local Initaitives | ||||||
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| Funding source(s) / Unterstützt durch |
Universität Zürich (position pursuing an academic career), Foundation |
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| Duration of Project / Projektdauer | Feb 1998 to Nov 2001 |