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Turning To ‘Rurality’: Profiling Urban And Rural Areas For The Evaluation Of Regional Development Policies

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  • Luca Salvati

    (Consiglio per la Ricerca e la sperimentazione in Agricoltura (CRA-RPS), Rome, Italy)

  • Vassiliki Benaki

    (Foreign Trade and Tourism sector in the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT),Greece)

Abstract

A better understanding of strength and weaknesses in rural systems through an adequate set of comprehensive and regularly updated indicators, indicates the necessary prerequisite for a flexible response to policy needs, such as policy targeting and monitoring rural development.The present study is aimed at proposing an effective methodology for defining and profiling different typologies of rural areas. A quantitative exercise has been developed in Greece, an European country showing dramatic economic changes in rural areas during the last decades. Results indicate that the optimal classification for rural areas in Greece can be derived through the combined use of the Degree of Handicap of EU Regulation 1257/99 and Degree of urbanism (using the standard OECD criterion). The methodology illustrated here constitutes an appropriate base for providing a tool informing policy measures destined to support the socioeconomic performances of rural areas in Greece.

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  • Luca Salvati & Vassiliki Benaki, 2013. "Turning To ‘Rurality’: Profiling Urban And Rural Areas For The Evaluation Of Regional Development Policies," Romanian Journal of Regional Science, Romanian Regional Science Association, vol. 7(2), pages 79-89, DECEMBER.
    • Handle: RePEc:rrs:journl:v:7:y:2013:i:2:p:79-89
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    Keywords

    Land classification; Rural development; Agriculture; Economically-disadvantaged; areas; Greece.;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q15 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Land Ownership and Tenure; Land Reform; Land Use; Irrigation; Agriculture and Environment
    • Q24 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - Land
    • R14 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Land Use Patterns
    • R52 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Regional Government Analysis - - - Land Use and Other Regulations

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