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Multitasking in the rural world: technological change and sustainability

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  • Teresa De Noronha Vaz
  • Peter Nijkamp

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Charged by history and struggling for a spatial identity, the rural world may use specific sets of values to apply tacit knowledge and cope with an industrial model in transition. This paper prompts the opportunities for rurality in the metamorphosis of modernity challenges. Addressing issues like diversification, local competition or networking, rural firms are adapting by segmenting and moving towards less concentrated forms, in an attempt to integrate the marketing of non-commodities as the most adequate strategies for consumers. Such strategies that impose certifications based on specific know-how force locals to expand their knowledge basis and learning capacities, facilitating a more environmentally sustainable production model. Presented as a complex force field, the rural world suggests a new paradigm in which social participation is more demanded and local and regional actors are called to find compromises for the sustainable governance of natural resources and the advance of learning.

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  • Teresa De Noronha Vaz & Peter Nijkamp, 2009. "Multitasking in the rural world: technological change and sustainability," International Journal of Agricultural Resources, Governance and Ecology, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 8(2/3/4), pages 111-129.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijarge:v:8:y:2009:i:2/3/4:p:111-129
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    1. Paulo Alexandre Neves Martinho Neto, 2011. "The Importance of Clusters for Sustainable Innovation Processes: The Context of Small and Medium Sized Regions," CEFAGE-UE Working Papers 2011_24, University of Evora, CEFAGE-UE (Portugal).

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