This book provides an overview of the underlying problems in delivering services to rural regions.

This book provides an overview of the underlying problems in delivering services to rural regions.

This book provides an overview of the underlying problems in delivering services to rural regions.

The report highlights the diverse challenges facing rural areas, their unused potential, and the inability of sectoral policy alone to address these challenges.

Reviews developments in Finnish rural policy since the last review in 1995, examining in particular public service delivery and competitiveness and business environment policies.

This report provides a framework to understand the changing relationships between urban and rural areas. Specifically, it documents the characteristics of these partnerships and the factors that can hinder as well as enable rural-urban co-operation.

Rural Well-being: Geography of Opportunities presents the latest iteration on this policy framework, reflecting several important changes in rural development in recent years. Fully taking into account the variety of situations characterising rural regions, the new policy framework leverages improved data and analysis while broadening the scope from economic focus to encompass the environmental and social dimensions of well-being.