Innovations in European Rural Landscapes by Hubert Wiggering Hans-Peter Ende Andrea Knierim & Marina Pintar

Author:Hubert Wiggering, Hans-Peter Ende, Andrea Knierim & Marina Pintar
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Berlin, Heidelberg

6 Concluding remarks

It is not new that new possibilities for rural areas, and particularly for the most peripheric areas, are supported in a new understanding of the role of farming and the acceptance that other functions may be leading in defining land use management (Durand and Van Huylenbroeck 2003; Wilson 2007). As described by Marsden (2003), in between the agro-industrial dynamic, based on productivist action and though, and the post-productivist dynamic, which sees the rural as a consumption space and where nature and the landscape are commodified, there could be place, in rural landscapes which are today as multifunctional as in Castelo de Vide, for the building up of a rural development dynamic. This would demand an acceptance of a new role for agriculture, combined with the production role, and also an awareness and appropriation by the involved actors of some values of the rural space which are lost or are getting lost in the present situation, but can be renovated (Marsden 2003). Castelo de Vide seems to gather the potential that makes this transition possible. It is still to be seen who will lead the process and how central policies and institutions will support this transition.

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