Local development - multiple views | Místní rozvoj – rŭzné pohledy
2012
Marikova, P., Czech Univ. of Life Sciences, Prague (Czech Republic). Faculty of Economics. Dept. of Humanities | Herova, I., Czech Univ. of Life Sciences, Prague (Czech Republic). Faculty of Economics. Dept. of Humanities
Local development can be assessed by monitoring changes and their impacts on local community. Primarily positive changes bringing profit are considered as development. However, this profit does not have to be economical. It should rather be the increase in life quality of the inhabitants. Several studies show that if the impulse for a change comes from within the community, this change tends to bring positive impacts and development of the locality. Exogenous development more often leads to not only positive impacts. In this report, we review the theoretic description of local development and its manifestations and seek ways how to measure this development. We present a simple indicator of total municipality development and show the limits of its use. In the second part, we summarize findings from our research focused on subjective notions of development and its evaluation. It becomes clear that in the minds of local actors (predominantly mayors of rural municipalities) as well as other rural inhabitant’s development means above all material and palpable values such as construction of technical infrastructure. Only small part of respondents perceives development as social process, connected with relations between inhabitants and their common aims.
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