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.

Head Lecturer(s)

Paulo Manuel de Carvalho Tomás

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.