XXII Congress of the European Society for Rural Sociology

The ESRS Congress was held in Wageningen, Netherlands during August 2007.

(Conference website).

WG 3 - Integration and disintegration of rural and agricultural policies

WG schedule : (pdf - 10 kb)

Papers and Presentations

Blackstock, K. - Enabling or Extractive? Collaborative evaluation of partnership working in Scotland (pdf - 112kb, ppt - 303 kb)

de Haas, W & de Vaan, M. - Integrated rural development in the project state. The implementation of a New Public Management steering philosophy in The Netherlands (pdf - 160kb, ppt - 91kb)

Gunnarsdotter, Y. et al - Local Practices of Rural Policy: Interrelationships between Social Effects of the Rural Development Programme and Economic and Environmental Effects (pdf - 202kb)

High,C & Powles, A - The institutional framework of the project state (pdf - 73kb, ppt - 93 kb)

Magocs, K - Evaluation and social learning (ppt - 127kb)

Nemes, G. et al. - Using participatory video to evaluate community development (pdf - 163 kb)

Reynolds, M. - Framing Purposeful Evaluation through Critical Systems Thinking (160 pdf - kb, ppt - 518kb)

Telinkangas, S. - Rethinking remote rural places in Finland (pdf - 202 kb)

Sebastian Tränkner - Success and constraints of implementing multi-level evaluation systems – the case of the GERMAN rural development policy programme “Regionen Aktiv” (pdf - 15 kb, pdf - 289 kb)

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