The focus of this paper is the emerging potential for radical e-enabled changes involving two key rural development drivers, namely: 1) enhanced collaboration – addressing problems such as small enterprise sizes, low rural demand and supply chain volumes, as well as problems associated with limited local human capacities and uncoordinated or misdirected rural development planning; and 2) enhanc...

Rural areas, where 47.6% of the Croatian population lives are not generally the focus of research; yet there are challenges which affect the rural population that often go unreported. These communities often exhibit disadvantages in many areas of health. The aim of this study is to examine the specific health needs and related determinants of rural populations influenced by transition that were...

stability and survival of rural communities for the residents without productive and profitable engagement is impossible. in this context the emergence of rural entrepreneurship is inevitable. today, one of the most important strategies for rural development is attention to the entrepreneurial spirit among the villagers and farmers. thus entrepreneurship can improve quality of life, make better...

introduction today exploiting the participation and the abilities of local people, particularly rural population, toward rural development has been considered as one of the effective strategies toward sustainable and comprehensive development of rural areas. the most important tool to achieve this goal is establishing ngos based on the needs as well as abilities of different groups living in th...

local planning is a basic principle as well as a major part of comprehensive rural development in which main emphasis is placed on local initiatives to make human interactions more active and dynamic. in local planning, all parties including local people, governmental bodies and ngos interact to fulfill the basic goals of community development. one may find good examples of local planning exper...

The reluctance of physicians to stay in remote and rural hospitals has resulted in a shortage of doctors in these settings, and therefore a decline in the quality of care and an intolerable overload on functioning doctors. However, mature paramedics find it difficult to comply with the demands of ambulance work and look for easier tasks that suit their age. The two problems may have a common so...

purpose: the main purpose in this paper is, the identifying of ecotourism entrepreneurship differences among rural of this region and ranking them, based on river- valley tourism potentials in ecotourism entrepreneurship and special analysis methods. methodology: for attain to this goal, descriptive and analytical methodology using data from a questionnaire in the form of experts and business o...

Rural economy has an important role in rural sustainable development in every region or country. However, the rural economy in Iran is too much depending on agriculture and development of other rural economy in particular nonfarm activities, has been neglected by Iranian rural communities. Therefore, the aim of this study was to identify the role of non-farm business on rural sustainable develo...

spatial organizations of each region are evolved through the activity of its settlement network. the formation procedure of settlement network is affected by the natural environment, social and economical structure, political and historical events. natural environment, social and economical structure of the city of talesh, have not permitted the permanent settlement and urbanism in this region....