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Mobilizing the regional eco-economy: evolving webs of agri-food and rural development in the UK

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The paper traces the emergence of the regional eco-economy with reference to a new conceptual model called the rural web. These webs are embedded into the fabric of regional systems of production and consumption and provide a key driver for both rural development generally and eco-economic development more specifically. Relocalized agri-food networks are playing a key integrating role in mobilizing the web and the regional eco-economy more generally. The web concept is used to (i) assess the pathways and drivers of eco-economic initiatives, (ii) provide a way of embedding agri-food initiatives in their innate forms of multifunctionality with wider ecological goods and services and (iii) provide a valuable and multidimensional tool for comparative rural/regional analysis and pathways of eco-economic development. Copyright 2010, Oxford University Press.

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  • Terry Marsden, 2010. "Mobilizing the regional eco-economy: evolving webs of agri-food and rural development in the UK," Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, Cambridge Political Economy Society, vol. 3(2), pages 225-244.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:cjrecs:v:3:y:2010:i:2:p:225-244
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