Monday 13 August – from Göttingen (DE) to Orange (FR) = 1117 km Tuesday 14 August – from Orange (FR) to Sant Cugat del Vallès (ES) = 446 km Wednesday 15 August – from Sant Cugat del Vallès (ES) to Cuevas de Cañart, Maestrazgo (ES) = 322 km Friday, 17 August – from Cuevas de […]
The adventure continues! Having spent my first 10 weeks investigating the resilience of the British village of Wooler in the rural northeast of England, it’s now time to travel 2,000 kms by car to reach one of the most rural and scarcely populated areas in Europe. My destination is La Sierra de Albarracín (the Albarracín […]
The fact that we learn through observation has long been proven. In the context of small town development, this means that if we travel to another country or even another small town with our eyes open, we can learn from others beyond our boundaries. And if we get into conversation and exchange ideas, their approaches […]
Between the 9th and 12th April, I had the opportunity to attend the 11th OECD Conference on Rural Development in Edinburgh. It was a stimulating and dynamic conference. I myself would probably not read a conference report on a blog, so in this post I’ll be brief and just summarize my main impressions. “Rural […]
The way communities can influence and control their own positive and sustainable development is a subject that preoccupies practitioners, academics, and committed villagers alike. In my last post, I announced I’d be writing about a special form of organisation to promote local development: what are known as “Community Development Trusts“. In view of the financial […]