Charting the discourse of community action: Perspectives from practice in rural Wales

Wind farms in rural areas: How far do community benefits from wind farms represent a local economic development opportunity?

“…On the one hand, exploiting renewable energy appears to allow rural communities to re-embed their economies in 'clean', locally available resources e to create new 'eco-economies', as Kitchen and Marsden (2005) describe them e which might be more economically and environmentally sustainable than current, subsidy-dependent agricultural systems. Such opportunities also chime with calls for greater community engagement in rural economic development (Day, 1998;Edwards, 1998). On the other hand, questions arise about the capacities of (different) rural communities to 'plug into' the complex, supra-local technical systems of energy provision, governed by corporate actors and policy arrangements that operate at broader spatial scales (Marvin and Guy, 1997;, and capture economic benefits for local areas.…”

Tourism to religious sites, case studies from Hungary and England: exploring paradoxical views on tourism, commodification and cost-benefits

“…• Benefits and costs of increased visitation • Managing change and value of the key transformative individuals ( Hollinshead & Jamal, 2007) • Embedding knowledge through processes • Identify, research, implement, review change (Saxena & Ilbery, 2008) • Skills, structures and resource base for change (Dredge, 2006;Edwards, 1998;Shortall, 2008;Rosenfeld, 2001;Von Friedrichs Grangsjo et al, 2006) • Weak ties versus strong ties in CRM (Granovetter, 1983) In developing a SSM approach one of the critical success factors is to identify informants that can rigorously review and critique the processes of measuring and managing impacts of tourism on religious sites. Such informants must possess a repository of key facts, experiences, judgements, reflections and core knowledge of both tourism and religion to validate the research process.…”

Inter-institutional relations in the governance of England's national parks: A governmentality perspective

“…Applying these concepts to rural studies, research has highlighted the development of governmentalities that rely on 'government through community' (Rose, 1996a, b;HerbertCheshire, 2000HerbertCheshire, , 2001Herbert-Cheshire and Higgins, 2004;Ward and McNicholas, 1998;Murdoch, 1998, Murdoch, 1997) and the development of governance 'partnerships' that transcend the public/ private/voluntary sector divides (Edwards et al, 2001;Edwards, 1998;Jones and Little, 2000).…”

“…While there is a large and growing literature on relations between the state and non-governmental actors particularly in analysing the growth of rural development partnerships (Cloke et al, 2000;Edwards, 1998;Edwards et al, 2001;Goodwin, 1998;Herbert-Cheshire, 2000Herbert-Cheshire and Higgins, 2004;Jones and Little, 2000;Little, 2001;MacKinnon, 2000MacKinnon, , 2001Marsden and Murdoch, 1998;Moseley, 2003;Murdoch, 1997;Tewdwr Jones, 1998;Ward and McNicholas, 1998;Woods and Goodwin, 2003) the changing institutional architecture of the state has received less attention in the rural studies literature (see Ward, 2002;Ward and Lowe, 2002;Ward et al, 2003 for UK exceptions). In particular as yet there is little theoretically informed analysis of relations between institutions acting at different governmental levels.…”