Policy support for rural economic development based on Hollings ecological concept of panarchy

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Globally, rural regions are searching for innovative growth opportunities to reinvigorate their economies. This paper examines the redevelopment of rural communities through an ecological lens - based on the notion of continuous cycles of adaptive change within complex systems as first identified within Hollings concept of panarchy. Panarchy suggests that complex systems have more than a single equilibrium point and, instead, have some inherent resiliency based on the notion of multiple stable regimes. As such, panarchy provides a conceptual model that describes the ways in which complex social and ecological systems are organized and structured both spatially and temporally. By drawing parallels between the characteristics of ecological communities and rural economic systems, a novel framework is developed to assist policy-makers reflect on a rural communitys position along its own adaptive change cycle and, then, implement appropriate inventions to improve system resiliency - which in this case is linked with economic resiliency through development and/or growth. Supported by empirical data emerging from both key informant interviews and content analysis of current rural development policy, this work also identifies leverage points where policy intervention may be most advantageous by specifying the timing of policy instruments on the cycle. Specifically, this framework describes four leverage points, three major and one minor, to help push or pull rural regions into an area of higher resilience.

Idioma originalEnglish
Páginas (desde-hasta)1-14
Número de páginas14
PublicaciónInternational Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology
Volumen23
N.º1
DOI
EstadoPublished - ene. 2 2016

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  • Geography, Planning and Development
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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