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Transitioning towards a Sustainable Wellbeing Economy-Implications for Rural-Urban Relations

Journal

LAND
Volume 10, Issue 5, Pages -

Publisher

MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/land10050512

Keywords

sustainable wellbeing; rural-urban relations; land management; local government; governance; policy; case studies; Europe

Funding

  1. ROBUST project under the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union [727988]

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This article discusses how shifting from a narrow economic perspective to a broader sustainable wellbeing focus in regional development strategies can impact rural-urban relationships. Through analyzing data and research from 11 European regions, the study identifies aspects of territorial development consistent with features of a wellbeing economy. Discussions also touch on development dynamics, tensions between different goals and resource uses, and conditions for more mutually beneficial rural-urban relationships.
This article focuses on the question of how a shift from a narrow economic perspective to a wider sustainable wellbeing focus in regional development strategies and actions might change rural-urban relations. A brief review of relevant research and discourses about economic development models provides the foundation for the analysis. The review leads to the development of an analytical framework that puts the notion of sustainable wellbeing at its center. The criteria included in the analytical framework are then used to assess the current situation, challenges and perceived ways forward based on data and analyses from 11 European regions. The focus of the analysis is on different expressions of a sustainable wellbeing economy, and aspects of territorial development that are consistent with the basic features of a wellbeing economy are identified. Development dynamics and tensions between different development goals and resource uses, strategies and actions that are in favor of sustainable wellbeing goals, and conditions for more mutually beneficial rural-urban relationships are discussed. The article concludes with the implications for local government, and governance and policy frameworks. Reference is made to current high-level strategic policy frameworks and the European Green Deal.

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