A Territorial Perspective On Eu´S Leader Approach In Denmark: The Added Value Of Community-Led Local Development Of Rural And Coastal Areas In A Multi-Level Governance Settings

Thuessen Annette Aagaard () and Nielsen Niels Christian ()
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Thuessen Annette Aagaard: Danish Centre for Rural Research, University of Southern Denmark, Niels Bohrs Vej 9, 6700 Esbjerg, Denmark
Nielsen Niels Christian: Danish Centre for Rural Research, University of Southern Denmark, Niels Bohrs Vej 9, 6700 Esbjerg, Denmark

European Countryside, 2014, vol. 6, issue 4, 307-326

Abstract: This paper investigates the added value of the territorial governance approach LEADER in the multi-level governance setting of rural and coastal development. Using focus group interviews in five Danish rural and fisheries local action groups (LAGs) from the 2007-2013 programming period, the paper demonstrates that pursuing the LEADER method at the LAG level enhances rural development in the form of leverage, democratisation and bottom-up decision making that none of the other levels in the multi-level governance setup of LEADER would be able to provide. However, some of the method’s seven concepts are not fully used. Maintaining a focus on all of the method’s concepts could allow for even greater rural development.

Keywords: Rural and coastal development; territorial governance; community-led local development (CLLD); local action groups (LAGs and FLAGs); LEADER; multi-level governance (MLG) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.2478/euco-2014-0017

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