TY  - BOOK
AU  - Derkzen,Petra
TI  - Rural Partnerships in Europe — A Differentiated View From a Country Perspective: The Netherlands and Wales
SN  - 09697764
AV  - HT395 EUR 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Los Angeles
PB  - sage
KW  - Rural Partnerships in Europe
KW  - Differentiated View From a Country Perspective
KW  - Country Perspective
KW  - Netherlands and Wales
N2  - In recent years partnership has become an established aspect of rural development across rural Europe. Both Wales and the Netherlands have seen similar trends towards more decentralized and territorial modes of rural governance in which policy networks of governmental and societal actors work together at a local or regional level to further rural development. Such networks are called ‘partnerships’ in English and ‘gebiedscommissies’ in Dutch. This paper addresses differences in the composition and organization of rural partnerships in these two countries and attributes the differences between them to the policy context in each country. Four policy factors are identified as contributing to the specific approach to partnership adopted in the two countries.The review sustains the presumption that in Dutch rural partnerships the integration discourse is more important than the participation discourse, which is more prominent in Wales
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1177/0969776409350793
ER  -