Memorias de investigación
Communications at congresses:
SOCIAL INVOLVEMENT FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT IN RURAL AREAS OF CUENCA, SPAIN
Year:2011
Research Areas
  • Area management,
  • Social sciences,
  • Geography
Information
Abstract
Community development must be accompanied by a social involvement process which creates functional groups of citizens capable of taking responsibility for their own development. It is important that this process promotes the structuring of all population groups and provides the appropriate institutional and technical support. The present paper addresses these issues based on over 25 years of experience by the Association Instituto de Desarrollo Comunitario de Cuenca in revitalizing rural areas of the Spanish province of Cuenca. This paper analyses the social involvement process encouraged by this association, the relationships between public institutions and local associations, the role of these associations and the difficulties encountered in the rural areas. The long-term perspective of this experience provides some keys which can be used to successfully support the process of social involvement ?such as information on its characteristics and methodological tools?, establish local associations and create sustainable partnerships that foster the growth of leadership within the community development process.
International
Si
Congress
15th International Congress on Project Engineering
960
Place
Reviewers
Si
ISBN/ISSN
978-84-615-7674-6
Start Date
06/07/2011
End Date
08/07/2011
From page
145
To page
157
Selected Proceedings from the 15th International Congress on Project Engineering
Participants
Research Group, Departaments and Institutes related
  • Creador: Grupo de Investigación: Planificación y Gestión sostenible del desarrollo rural/local
  • Departamento: Proyectos y Planificación Rural