Rural Communities Responding to Territorial Challenges in the Nordic Region
Rural territory makes up around 77% of the Nordic Region and is home to 25% of the population. Rural areas are an important source of food, timber, minerals, fresh water, and recreational spaces, but also struggle with depopulation, economic benefit retention from extractive resource industries and...
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ftzenodo:oai:zenodo.org:6589623 2023-05-15T17:57:21+02:00 Rural Communities Responding to Territorial Challenges in the Nordic Region Leneisja Jungsberg 2022-03-11 https://zenodo.org/record/6589623 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6589623 unknown doi:10.5281/zenodo.6589622 https://zenodo.org/record/6589623 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6589623 oai:zenodo.org:6589623 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode rural communities social innovation strategic assessment adaptive capacity local development territorial challenges Nordic Region info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis publication-thesis 2022 ftzenodo https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.658962310.5281/zenodo.6589622 2023-03-11T03:47:58Z Rural territory makes up around 77% of the Nordic Region and is home to 25% of the population. Rural areas are an important source of food, timber, minerals, fresh water, and recreational spaces, but also struggle with depopulation, economic benefit retention from extractive resource industries and climate change-induced permafrost degradation. The aim of this study is to assess how rural communities respond to these territorial challenges in the Nordic Region. The research design is inspired by a mixed method approach, with data acquisition involving semi-structured interviews, community workshops, questionnaire data, register data and desktop research. This Ph.D. thesis is based on three different research projects that collaborate with community members and local authorities to support local development in rural areas. The results show that many of the emerging rural community responses can be described as social innovations, and they are primarily driven by community members, local authorities and civil society organisations. Community members are rated as the most important when it comes to developing ideas, while local civil society organisations are rated as the most important in terms of decisionmaking. To ensure more local benefit retention from resource-based industries, local smart specialisation strategies, can contribute to community engagement by collaborating with small and medium-sized enterprises and entrepreneurs. A key outcome of the strategy process was enhanced knowledge of population change, land-use planning, and approaches to local economic diversification. The results from the adaptive capacity assessment to manage permafrost degradation show that community members and local authorities generally respond to permafrost degradation via autonomous and ad-hoc adaptation practices. Typical challenges include deformations and changes in ground structure, leading to slanting floors, doors or windows that do not close, and cracking windows due to differential settlement of houses. Furthermore, ... Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis permafrost Zenodo |
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Rural territory makes up around 77% of the Nordic Region and is home to 25% of the population. Rural areas are an important source of food, timber, minerals, fresh water, and recreational spaces, but also struggle with depopulation, economic benefit retention from extractive resource industries and climate change-induced permafrost degradation. The aim of this study is to assess how rural communities respond to these territorial challenges in the Nordic Region. The research design is inspired by a mixed method approach, with data acquisition involving semi-structured interviews, community workshops, questionnaire data, register data and desktop research. This Ph.D. thesis is based on three different research projects that collaborate with community members and local authorities to support local development in rural areas. The results show that many of the emerging rural community responses can be described as social innovations, and they are primarily driven by community members, local authorities and civil society organisations. Community members are rated as the most important when it comes to developing ideas, while local civil society organisations are rated as the most important in terms of decisionmaking. To ensure more local benefit retention from resource-based industries, local smart specialisation strategies, can contribute to community engagement by collaborating with small and medium-sized enterprises and entrepreneurs. A key outcome of the strategy process was enhanced knowledge of population change, land-use planning, and approaches to local economic diversification. The results from the adaptive capacity assessment to manage permafrost degradation show that community members and local authorities generally respond to permafrost degradation via autonomous and ad-hoc adaptation practices. Typical challenges include deformations and changes in ground structure, leading to slanting floors, doors or windows that do not close, and cracking windows due to differential settlement of houses. Furthermore, ... |
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Rural Communities Responding to Territorial Challenges in the Nordic Region |
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Rural Communities Responding to Territorial Challenges in the Nordic Region |
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Rural Communities Responding to Territorial Challenges in the Nordic Region |
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