Dynamics of Rural Spaces

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

This curricular unit works under Seminar. After a first part devoted to presentation and preliminary discussion of the syllabus, the students take on a greater role in order to apply knowledge and encourage research on an individual basis, through bibliographical research and analysis; collection of documentary and statistical elements (and other tasks for field work); realization of field exits/study visits; for presentations in classroom context; and construction of a narrative of scientific basis (individual work).

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the semester students must: a) knowing the multiple dimensions and rural-related settings; b) identify the main trends of the rural world; c) explain the current development dynamics in rural context; d) understand the multifunctionality and rural the meaning of their endogenous resources (productive, recreational, environmental); e) discuss the genesis and evolution of the common agricultural policy; f) explain the concept of rural development and its affirmation on the European Union; g) clarify operational rural development tools; h) analyzing the results of rural development initiatives (European Union Portugal); i) recognize the specificity of mountains.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Dimensions and rural settings: from global to local.

2. Trends and dynamics (demographic, economic, social, cultural, territorial and institutional) present the rural world: European Union Portugal. 

3. Rural multifunctionality: agricultural geoeconomy; permanent and casual living spaces; equity resources (natural, cultural and landscape); biodiversity and statutes of protection/classification of posts; new products and territories of recreation and tourism.

4. Genesis and evolution of the Common Agricultural Policy: rural development agricultural growth.

5. Rural and rurality post-productivist: direct operational tools (from LEADER to FEADER) and indirect, new organization of actors (partnerships and networks) and configuration of features/products (networks, routes and itineraries), and their economic, social and territorial results.

6. The specificity of mountain areas and their overall strategic relevance.

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Written Work (50%); Tasks in the context of lessons (40%); Attendance (10%).: 100.0%

Bibliography

Baptista, F., Jacinto, R. & Mendes, T. (Ed.) (2009). Os Territórios de Baixa Densidade em Tempo de Mudança. Proença-a-Nova: CMPA e CCVF.

Carvalho, P. (2013). Desenvolvimento Rural. Málaga: Universidad de Málaga.

Cheshire, L. (2006). Governing Rural Development. Aldershot: Ashgate.

Figueiredo, E. (Coord.) (2011). O Rural plural - olhar o presente, imaginar o futuro. Castro Verde: Editora 100LUZ.

Gold, J., Thorpe, R. & Mumford, A. (eds.): (2008). Gower Handbook of Leadership and Management Development. Aldershot: Ashgate.

Gutiérrez, J. P. (2006). Territorio, geografía rural y políticas públicas. Desarrollo y sustentabilidad en las áreas rurales”. Boletín de la A.G.E., 41, 69-95.

Moreno, L., Sánchez, M. M. e Simões, O. (2009). Cultura, Inovação e Território. O Agroalimentar e o Rural. Lisboa: Sociedade Portuguesa de Estudos Rurais.

Price, M. (2007). Mountain Area Research and Management. Integrated Approaches. London: Earthscan.