Impact and Potential: A Comparative Review of European Rural Development Practices

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Integrating rural development and biodiversity conservation in Central Romania (2013, background): “Indeed, the main obstacle to successful rural development may not be a lack of well-intended policies, but their inadequate implementation (Jordan 1999; van der Ploeg & Renting 2000).”
Reconnecting nature, farming and society: environmental cooperatives in the Netherlands as institutional arrangements for creating coherence (2001, background): “The construction of clusters of interconnected, mutually reinforcing activities and the additional synergy effects arising from these appear to be crucial mechanisms for successful rural development (Ploeg & Renting, 2000; Brunori & Rossi, 2000).”
Unfolding Webs: The Dynamics of Regional Rural Development (2008, background): “In the year 2000 a multidisciplinary team of social scientists from several European countries argued, in a joint article published in Sociologia Ruralis (2000), that rural development basically was practice without theory (Ploeg et al, 2000)2.”