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Evidence Strategies
The reports and presentations in this section go broadly under the heading of ‘evidence strategies’. They are mainly concerned with looking at aspects of rural development within a national framework which contain sufficient detail to be relevant at the regional and local levels.
Examples of the sorts of topics included are:
- ideas and practical approaches on how data can be assembled to give better evidence for rural policy development and evaluation,
- ideas on how social and economic networks in rural areas can be ‘grounded’ in evidence available at the national and regional level,
- typologies of rural England and rural towns, based upon statistical clustering of data from the 2001 Census, and
- an illustration of methods for creating aggregate measures of accessibility for rural areas.
These are the sorts of ideas and evidence that are required to underpin rural development strategies. The historical context for such strategies is set out in a note on the evolution of rural policy at the European level, suggesting a move away from ‘sectoral’ (e.g. agricultural), policies, towards a focus on the environmental, territorial and communal aspects of rurality.
