The text illustrates the methodology used in the ETUDE project to identify, describe and evaluate the structural elements of the territory, their interrelations in light of the main events, and the various actions carried out by various actors. is the result of an intuitive idea, the idea of a rural web, which was carried through different territories within a conceptual scheme structured into the six dimensions described in the first book “Unfolding Webs” (Ploeg and Marsden, 2008). The rural web is, at one and the same time, both a conceptual idea and an instrument for the exploration and interpretational analysis of the dynamics characterising rural territories. These dynamics may also be very diversified from one area to another and, most of all, lead to different outcomes in relation to both the actors that participate in them and the dimensions that are mobilised and take place in the process. Its configuration starts from the description of the capitals present in the area, while its dynamics is interpreted through the analysis of the relationships that exist among the different capitals within the six functional dimensions characterising it. The activities carried out in the ETUDE Project have made it possible, on the one hand, to test the appropriateness of the conceptual scheme and, on the other, to outline a sequence of schemes or interpretational passages that have led to the delimitation of a new instrument for the analysis of development dynamics in the areas and of the elements characterising them. One of the main notions obtained from the application of this new conceptual scheme is that the success of an area comes to depend not so much on the presence and wealth of the capitals involved, but on how they are recognized and mobilized within the rural web. In the same way, the scarcity of some capitals is not always the result of a development delay, but may instead result from a “unidirectional” trajectory that uses and increases only some of the capitals, without leading to a balanced and consistent growth of all that characterise the territory. What emerged from the areas is that in many cases it is the ways of interaction of the capitals that define the success or failure of the entrepreneurial initiatives underlying the socioeconomic development dynamics of the territories.
Some notes on the identification of rural web
VENTURA, Flaminia;P. Milone;
2010
Abstract
The text illustrates the methodology used in the ETUDE project to identify, describe and evaluate the structural elements of the territory, their interrelations in light of the main events, and the various actions carried out by various actors. is the result of an intuitive idea, the idea of a rural web, which was carried through different territories within a conceptual scheme structured into the six dimensions described in the first book “Unfolding Webs” (Ploeg and Marsden, 2008). The rural web is, at one and the same time, both a conceptual idea and an instrument for the exploration and interpretational analysis of the dynamics characterising rural territories. These dynamics may also be very diversified from one area to another and, most of all, lead to different outcomes in relation to both the actors that participate in them and the dimensions that are mobilised and take place in the process. Its configuration starts from the description of the capitals present in the area, while its dynamics is interpreted through the analysis of the relationships that exist among the different capitals within the six functional dimensions characterising it. The activities carried out in the ETUDE Project have made it possible, on the one hand, to test the appropriateness of the conceptual scheme and, on the other, to outline a sequence of schemes or interpretational passages that have led to the delimitation of a new instrument for the analysis of development dynamics in the areas and of the elements characterising them. One of the main notions obtained from the application of this new conceptual scheme is that the success of an area comes to depend not so much on the presence and wealth of the capitals involved, but on how they are recognized and mobilized within the rural web. In the same way, the scarcity of some capitals is not always the result of a development delay, but may instead result from a “unidirectional” trajectory that uses and increases only some of the capitals, without leading to a balanced and consistent growth of all that characterise the territory. What emerged from the areas is that in many cases it is the ways of interaction of the capitals that define the success or failure of the entrepreneurial initiatives underlying the socioeconomic development dynamics of the territories.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
