Win or Lose in Rural Development: Case Studies from Europe

The aims of this book are: systematization and theorization of these projects; clarify and deepen the social and territorial effects of these initiatives; in-depth study of the causes that lead to the generation of successful projects in rural development; and abound in the reasons that lead specific projects to be failed in the access to LEADER support and be finally not implemented. This process of systematization and theorization would contribute to improving the decision-making in rural development, concretely the practice of these policies and initiatives.

The book shows the problems, results and best practices that cause the rural development in different areas along with Europe. The multidisciplinary and international character of the authors in the analysis of rural development will enrich the publication and facilitate the different and critical reflections on the contributions, errors and meaning of these rural development practices.

EUGENIO CEJUDO-GARCÍA. Full Professor at the Department of Human Geography, University of Granada (Spain), and President of the Rural Geography Group of the Spanish Geographical Association. Director of the Department of Human Geography at the University of Granada. Specialised in socio-territorial contributions, agrarian and patrimonial policies, and neo-endogenous practices of rural development. He has published several scientific articles in WOS/JCR journals and books. Co-director of several national projects funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. Principal investigator in several international projects directly related to this proposal. And finally, participation in different mobility programmes to different European universities.

FRANCISCO ANTONIO NAVARRO-VALVERDE. Senior Lecturer at the Department of Human Geography, University of Granada (Spain), and member of the Rural Geography of the Spanish Geographical Association. Specialized in the socioterritorial contributions and social innovations of neo-endogenous rural development practices. He has published several scientific papers in journals of WOS/JCR and books. Co-director of several national projects, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. Involvement in several international projects directly related to this proposal. And finally, participation in different mobility programmes to different European universities.

JOSÉ ANTONIO CAÑETE-PÉREZ. Geographer, PhD from the University of Granada. Master in Territorial Planning. Master in Urban Planning. Professor at the Department of Human Geography, University of Granada (Spain), since 2000. Previously, he has worked as a geographer-consultant in private companies, drawing up regional, sub-regional and urban plans. He has numerous publications related to rural development both in books and in WOS/JCR journals. He is specialised in subjects related to the spatial treatment of geographicalphenomena through Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Databases and participates assiduously in research projects both at national and international level, oriented towards the analysis of territorial planning processes and rural development.