A Territorial Perspective On Eu'S Leader Approach In Denmark: The Added Value Of Community-Led Local Development Of Rural And Coastal Areas In A Multi-Level Governance Settings

This paper investigates the added value of the territorial governance approach LEADER in the multi-level governance setting of rural and coastal development. Using focus group interviews in five Danish rural and fisheries local action groups (LAGs) from the 2007-2013 programming period, the paper de...

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Published inEuropean countryside Vol. 6; no. 4; pp. 307 - 326
Main Authors Thuessen, Annette Aagaard, Nielsen, Niels Christian
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Brno De Gruyter Poland 01.12.2014
Subjects
Coastal areas
Coasts
Denmark
Economic development
Europe
Focus groups
Governance
Interviews
Public private partnerships
Rural areas
Rural development
Rural economics
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Summary:This paper investigates the added value of the territorial governance approach LEADER in the multi-level governance setting of rural and coastal development. Using focus group interviews in five Danish rural and fisheries local action groups (LAGs) from the 2007-2013 programming period, the paper demonstrates that pursuing the LEADER method at the LAG level enhances rural development in the form of leverage, democratisation and bottom-up decision making that none of the other levels in the multi-level governance setup of LEADER would be able to provide. However, some of the method's seven concepts are not fully used. Maintaining a focus on all of the method's concepts could allow for even greater rural development.
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ISSN:1803-8417
1803-8417
DOI:10.2478/euco-2014-0017