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W4NeolibralismandImpoverishmentRuralWealth.pptxThe Bioregional Transition, Urban-Rural relations
TOPIC: Theories and concepts that underpin our ideas, ethics and values concerning progress, innovation and development change over time; currently neoliberalism and the capital-mobility model (“free market capitalism”) has a major influence on urban, rural and regional development and planning.
Readings
Friedmann 2010-placemaking (18 pages)
Pezzoli_Leiter_CreatingHealthyBioregions2016 (7 pages)
Pezzoli_BioregionalTranstion-2017 (10 pages)
Pezzoli_2016_bioregionalism (6 pages)
Progressive Ruralism PN_mag_W11_Pezzoli (4 pages)
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Neoliberalism
Neoliberalism, ideology and policy model that emphasizes the value of free market competition. Although there is considerable debate as to the defining features of neoliberal thought and practice, it is most commonly associated with laissez-faire economics. In particular, neoliberalism is often characterized in terms of its belief in sustained economic growth as the means to achieve human progress, its confidence in free markets as the most-efficient allocation of resources, its emphasis on minimal state intervention in economic and social affairs, and its commitment to the freedom of trade and capital.
Encyclopedia Britannica, by Nicola Smith
https://www.britannica.com/topic/neoliberalism
Impoverishment of Rural Wealth
The Impoverishment of Rural Wealth (IRW) refers to the degradation of social, economic, cultural and ecological conditions in rural communities that have been dependent on natural resources for jobs in forestry, agriculture, ranching and tourism. The degradation, due in part to the way in which rural wealth (including social, human and natural capital) is undervalued in the way market forces operate today.
The impoverishment of rural wealth undermines life and living in rural areas leading to catastrophic wildfire, unhealthy forest ecosystems, degraded watersheds, decline of family farming, loss of rural cultural heritage, aging populations and high levels of unemployment.
Progressive Ruralism PN_mag_W11_Pezzoli (4 pages)
Progressive Ruralism PN_mag_W11_Pezzoli (4 pages)
The Sierra Nevada Region is a contiguous mountain range that extends 400 miles along the eastern flank of California and the western tip of Nevada. It contains one of the world’s greatest concentrations of natural resources and biological diversity. The Sierras constitutes roughly one-quarter of California’s land area, including habitat for two-thirds of the state’s bird and mammal species and forests that provide between one-third and one-half of the state’s annual timber supply. The Sierra’s watersheds provide 65 percent of the state’s developed water supply—the great bulk of which is used outside of the region for residential, agricultural and environmental purposes.
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Impoverishment of Rural Wealth (cont.)
Conditions in rural areas challenge us to re-value how we understand, measure and utilize wealth, its stocks and flows. The Carnegie UK Trust captures this point well in its (p. 17)
2009 Manifesto for Rural Communities: “In an increasingly fragile world, rural areas should be recognized as resource rich; places where assets are stewarded for the nation as a whole. After decades where rural areas have just been seen as hinterlands to large urban areas and city regions, this imperative places rural communities at the heart of policymaking for the nation as a whole.”
Progressive Ruralism PN_mag_W11_Pezzoli (4 pages)
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Urban and rural areas are often seen as opposites, tied together only by how different one is from the other. But a recent report from UN-Habitat argues that way of thinking is all wrong. In fact, it says, the urban-rural divide needs to be reimagined as a harmonious continuum, where policies and programmes aimed at helping people on one side can help people on the other side as well.
The report is called Implementing the new Urban Agenda by Strengthening Urban-Rural Linkages. It says stronger urban-rural partnerships are central to achieving two major international agreements, the Sustainable Development
Goals and the New Urban Agenda.
Urban-Rural Divide Needs To Be Reimagined
‘Urban-rural continuum’ essential to achieving New Urban Agenda DAVID HATCH OCTOBER 18, 2017
http://citiscope.org/story/2017/urban-rural-continuum-essential-achieving-new-urban-agenda?utm_source=Citiscope&utm_campaign=edbe796aa2-Mailchimp_2017_10_20&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ce992dbfef-edbe796aa2-118082825
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Urban Rural Linkages
United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) 2017. Implementing the New Urban Agenda by Strengthening Urban-Rural Linkages. Nairobi, Kenya.
https://unhabitat.org/books/implementing-the-new-urban-agenda-by-strengthening-urban-rural-linkages/
“Urban-Rural Linkages are nonlinear, diverse urban-rural interactions and linkages across space within an urban-rural continuum, including flows of people, goods, capital and information but also between sectors and activities such as agriculture, services and manufacturing. In general, they can be defined as a complex web of connections between rural and urban dimensions”
United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) 2017. Implementing the New Urban Agenda by Strengthening Urban-Rural Linkages. Nairobi, Kenya.
https://unhabitat.org/books/implementing-the-new-urban-agenda-by-strengthening-urban-rural-linkages/
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Sustainable Development Goal 11
Sustainable Development Goal 11 is “the urban goal” and aims to “make cities and human settlements more inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable”. Target 11.a requests to “support positive economic, social and environmental links between urban, peri-urban and rural areas by strengthening national and regional development planning.” With target 11.a, Member States acknowledge the importance of the linkages between urban and rural areas and lay the foundation for an integrated territorial approach.
United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) 2017. Implementing the New Urban Agenda by Strengthening Urban-Rural Linkages. Nairobi, Kenya.
https://unhabitat.org/books/implementing-the-new-urban-agenda-by-strengthening-urban-rural-linkages/
On 1 January 2016, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development — adopted by world leaders in September 2015 at an historic UN Summit — officially came into force. Over the next fifteen years, with these new Goals that universally apply to all, countries will mobilize efforts to end all forms of poverty, fight inequalities and tackle climate change, while ensuring that no one is left behind.
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