International Comparative Rural Policy Studies
by John Bryden, 26/01/2014 From the start the ICRPS group adopted a territorial approach to rural policy, in fact following the development of the OECD approach, in which several of us were quite closely involved. This meant that we were, and are, more interested in rural regions, their people and economies and in the policies Read More …
by John Bryden 20/01/2014 Tom Johnson, Tony Fuller and I prepared a paper on the history of ICRPS since its inception in autumn 2002 and its possible future directions for the tenth anniversary conference of the ICRPS summer institutes. This was held during the tenth summer institute in Bologna, June 2013. We did so as Read More …
by the editors 10/01/2014 Dear Readers, welcome to a new year of Exploring Rurality. We hope you have had a happy holiday and a good start to the New Year. The editing team of this blog have had a few weeks off from blogging, but are now back. Exploring Rurality in 2014 A new year Read More …
by the editors 14/11/2013 Finally, after a month the servers are now back on and Exploring Rurality is online yet again! Our sudden disappearance was caused by a hacker attack on one of the servers of Brandon University in Canada. Brandon U is one of the partner institutions of ICRPS, and they have been so kind Read More …
With these photos we wish you all a wonderful summer! The editors will take a summer vacation from the blog – but we are back with new updates in mid/end of August. Feel free to e-mail us contributions to the blog during the summer: exploringrurality@gmail.com Best, Katja, Eric and Kjersti Photos courtesy of Immaculate Nabisere, Read More …
by Andrew Spaeth 23/06/2013 on day 6 of the 2013 Summer Insitute The 10th annual International Comparative Rural Policy Studies (ICRPS) conference was held on Sunday, June 23 at the Church Room at the University of Bologna residential center in Bertinoro. The conference started with some reflection on the past ten years of ICRPS followed Read More …
by Catharine Weber, 23/06/2013 on day 6 of the 2013 Summer Institute Our Sunday adventure started with a bus trip to Comacchio. Upon arrival we walked a short distance to la manifattura dei marinati. The museum building was once the main processing site for eel in the 1940s and 50s. We toured the plant after watching two Mussolini Read More …
by Suman Pant, 22/06/2013 on day 5 of the 2013 Summer Insitute After a great field trip and amazing food yesterday, our day began in full swing with presentations and discussions. Emanuele Padovani from the University of Bologna started the day with his presentation on public management and policy delivery in rural areas. Some ideas and Read More …
by James D. Rossi, 21/06/2013 on day 4 of the 2013 Summer Insitute Today’s ICRPS focused on field visits which included stops at producers of EU Demonination of Origin products (DOP), representatives of the Local Action Group (LAG) L’Altra Romagna, and an agritourism hotel/restaurant. DOP limits both the geographical region in which a good can Read More …
by Kelsey Lang ICRPS 2013 20/06/2013 on day 3 of the 2013 Summer Insitute The third day of ICRPS brought the end of policy research theory and analysis methods, and the beginning of getting to know different policy applications! The day started with discussion on quasi-experimental design and evaluation, driving home the importance of knowing the Read More …