Transcript Rural Regions in Europe

Rural Regions in Europe:
Territorial Potentials and main Challenges
Potentials of Rural Regions
Marjan van Herwijnen
ESPON Coordination Unit
15 December 2010
PURR: examples of smart rural areas
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The PURR Project
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The PURR regions
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The research
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The expected results
The PURR Project
PURR: Potentials of Rural Regions
• Priority 2 project:
• Targeted Analysis based on User Demand
• Contents of project function of Stakeholders’ demand
• Stakeholders (2008):
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Notodden Municipality, Norway
Amata (Cēsis) District Council, Latvia
North Yorkshire County Council, UK
Welsh Assembly Government, UK
Dumfries and Galloway Council, UK
The PURR Project
• Aims of the project:
• To create and test new ways of exploring the territorial potentials
of Stakeholder regions – and develop a method
• Combine quantitative information on European level with
qualitative and quantitative local information
• Based extensively on dialogue with Stakeholders
• Can method be applied in other parts of Europe?
• The Project Partners:
• Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research (NIBR),
Norway
• Department of Urban, Environmental and Leisure Studies,
Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences of the London South Bank
University, UK
• Vidzeme University College, Latvia
The PURR regions
Norway:
• Nottoden municipality
(in the Telemark NUTS3
region)
Telemark
Latvia:
• Amata District
(in Vidzeme NUTS3
region)
North Yorkshire CC
Wales
UK:
• Cambrian mountains
(in Wales, 12 NUTS3
regions)
• Dumfries and
Galloway
• North Yorkshire
Vidzeme
Dumfries
& Galloway
The PURR regions
total area
(km2)
Number of
people
Density
(nr/km2)
Number of
towns
Number of
people in
towns
Number of
people in
rural area
919
12,232
13
1
8,000
4,232
Amata District
3,067
56,778
19
1
18,730
38,048
North Yorkshire CC
7,680
570,000
74
2
123,100
446,900
Dumfries & Galloway
6,426
148,000
23
2
42,400
105,600
Cambrian Mountains
1,210
30,000
25
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0
30,000
Notodden municip.
The PURR Regions
NUTS3
NO034
LV008
UKE22
UKM32
UKL24
Name
Telemark
Vidzeme
North Yorkshire CC
Dumfries & Galloway
Powys (in Wales)
DPType
32
32
21
31
31
SType
2
1
2
4
2
A-D Type
4
1
4
2
3
DPType
SType
A-DType
21 = IA
31 = PRA
32 = PRR
1 = Agrarian economies
2 = Consumption countryside
4 = Diversified (with important
Market Services Sector)
1 = Accumulating
2 = Above Average
3 = Below Average
4 = Depleting
Notodden municipality (in Telemark, Norway)
Some facts:
• Landscape:
forest and agriculture
• Late 1980:
Two industrial companies shut
down  >1000 people
unemployed
• Unemployment rate:
2.2%
• Employment:
77% Tertiary sector
• Commuting:
400 into and 400 out
• Famous for:
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their black metal bands
(Emperor, Mortiis, Peccatum,
Star of ash, Leprous and Zyklon)
Amata District (in Vidzeme, Latvia)
Some facts:
• Landscape:
Surrounded by national park;
forest and agriculture
• Late 1980:
Two industrial companies shut
down  >1000 people
unemployed
• Unemployment rate:
4.5%
• Employment:
20% in agriculture;
small companies in service
and retail industries
• Famous for:
The Zvārte rock
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North Yorkshire CC (England)
Some facts:
• Landscape:
nature areas;
protected landscapes;
forest and agriculture
• Settlements:
Harrogate and Scarborough
(York)
• Unemployment rate:
4.1%
• Employment:
86.1% (highest of UK)
• Famous for:
Rock-It-Ball which was
developed here
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Dumfries & Galloway (Scotland)
Some facts:
• Landscape:
coastline;
hills, lochs and valleys;
small towns;
nature reserves
• Settlements:
Dumfries and Gretna
• Employment:
agriculture and forestry;
light industries; tourism;
16.3% is self employed;
92% of firms are microbusinesses (<10 empl.)
• Famous for:
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many artists and writers
James Matthew Barrie,
author of Peter Pan
Cambrian mountains (Wales)
Some facts:
• Landscape:
mountainous;
agriculture
• Settlements:
Cardiff, Newport and Swansea
• Unemployment rate:
3.9%
• Employment:
rural Wales: 72%
management of woodland
• Famous for:
Devil's Bridge Waterfalls
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The PURR regions
Shared challenges:
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Rural regions all outside the Pentagon
Peripheral regions
Sparsely populated regions
Rather poor accessibility
Problems of ageing and out- migration of young people
Characteristics:
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Urban influence is relatively weak
Regions with market towns serving an agricultural hinterland
Relation between the towns and their countryside is important
Variations in accessibility
Extensive areas not connected to major road or rail networks
The Research
• Benchmark Stakeholder regions in European context
• Applying a magnifying glass to the region – what does it look like?
• Collect more info from Stakeholder regions
• Territorial assets, governance, policy integration
• Develop innovative methodology for assessing territorial potential
together with Stakeholders
• Inductive methodology – developed ”as they go”
• Template or guidelines
• Test method by applying it to each Stakeholder region
• Develop set of policy options for sustainable regional development in
each Stakeholder region
• The definition of ”sustainable” is currently being discussed. Might vary from
region to region
• Guideline on to develop and apply the method in other parts of Europe
The Expected Results
• An Assessment of Territorial Potential in five stakeholder regions,
including Policy Options (five reports)
• A Synthesis of these five reports
• A Template for assessing territorial potential
• Should it be ”easy to use” by non-experts?
• Can it also be applied on the European Scale?
• Can it also be applied to more urban regions?
• Typologies of Rural Territories, based on their territorial potential
• Typologies of Policy Options for these regions
• Seminars in March 2011 in Latvia and in September 2011 in Oslo
Thank you for your attention!