OECD Rural Studies Rural Well-being Geography of Opportunities

OECD Rural Studies Rural Well-being Geography of Opportunities
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2020-10-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9264849165

Rural Well-being: Geography of Opportunities presents the latest iteration on this policy framework, reflecting several important changes in rural development in recent years. Fully taking into account the variety of situations characterising rural regions, the new policy framework leverages improved data and analysis while broadening the scope from economic focus to encompass the environmental and social dimensions of well-being.

OECD Rural Studies Enhancing Rural Innovation in the United States

OECD Rural Studies Enhancing Rural Innovation in the United States
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2023-11-16
Genre:
ISBN: 926486668X

When it comes to high-tech innovations, the United States leads the path amongst OECD economies. However, in the context of the national record-breaking activities in high tech innovation, there lies distinct and growing geographical disparities. This report dives into strategies for better understanding innovation that occurs in rural places, and places outside major metropolitan areas, often going beyond science and technology.

A Research Agenda for Global Rural Development

A Research Agenda for Global Rural Development
Author: Terry Marsden
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2020-10-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1788974190

Setting out a new, path-breaking research agenda for global rural development, this timely book offers an innovative and embedded rural social science capable of both understanding and enacting progress towards diverse and sustainable pathways. It relocates rural development at the heart of global trends associated with widespread but uneven urbanization, climate change and severe resource depletion, rising population growth, density and inequality, and global political, economic and health crises.

Net Zero+ Climate and Economic Resilience in a Changing World

Net Zero+ Climate and Economic Resilience in a Changing World
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2023-05-16
Genre:
ISBN: 9264868798

This report provides a synthesis of the OECD Net Zero+ project, covering the first phase of an ongoing, cross-cutting initiative, representing a major step forward for an OECD whole-of-government approach to climate policy.

OECD Rural Studies Delivering Quality Education and Health Care to All Preparing Regions for Demographic Change

OECD Rural Studies Delivering Quality Education and Health Care to All Preparing Regions for Demographic Change
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2021-03-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9264446540

COVID-19 has put renewed focus on the importance of addressing longstanding challenges that OECD governments face in delivering public services, especially in regions with people spread over a wider area where economies of scale are more difficult to achieve. The physical infrastructure needed to provide good quality education and health services can be more complex and expensive in rural and remote regions that also struggle to attract and retain education and health care professionals.

2017 Global Food Policy Report

2017 Global Food Policy Report
Author: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2017-03-23
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0896292525

IFPRI’s flagship report reviews the major food policy issues, developments, and decisions of 2016, and highlights challenges and opportunities for 2017 at the global and regional levels. This year’s report looks at the impact of rapid urban growth on food security and nutrition, and considers how food systems can be reshaped to benefit both urban and rural populations.

OECD Rural Studies Adapting Regional Policy in Korea Preparing Regions for Demographic Change

OECD Rural Studies Adapting Regional Policy in Korea Preparing Regions for Demographic Change
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2022-06-23
Genre:
ISBN: 9264689303

The study is part of the OECD work stream Preparing Regions for Demographic Change, a megatrend that affects several important dimensions of public policy. The following three of them are particular relevant for Korea’s regions and rural places: (i) workforce dimension, (ii) social dimension and (iii) governance dimension. The report consists of three chapters.