Local Partnerships for Rural Development: The European Experience (Geography) - Hardcover

"This book answers all the important questions it addresses, and the intelligence, energy and care it embodies entitle it to have a crucial impact on the agenda of empirical research in rural development."--European Review of Agricultural Economics "The text is very well written, and will for the most part interest those concerned with rural development partnerships."--Regional Studies "This project advances our understanding of partnerships and is therefore a good addition to the literature on the topic."--Local Government Studies

This book has been developed from a report of the cross-national 'PRIDE' (Partnerships for Rural Integrated Development in Europe) research project. The research focused on the public and private sector rural development experience of six member states of the European Union, namely Finland, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden and the UK.