Place-based rural development: building capacities, multi-actor collaborations and making sense of the local ‘place’
Summary. Place-based rural development succeeds when local actors collaborate and deliberately build capacity to connect external knowledge with local circumstances. A case study of Nova Scotia's wine industry shows how multi-actor collaboration and intentional interventions created a new industry from scratch in a region lacking initial endogenous capacity. The findings demonstrate that rural regions can develop entirely new industries through strategic knowledge recombination and coordinated capacity building.
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Fuentes, C. D., Doloreux, D., & Quilley, S.. (2025). Place-based rural development: building capacities, multi-actor collaborations and making sense of the local ‘place’. Journal of Rural Studies. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103976
Fuentes, Claudia De, et al. “Place-based rural development: building capacities, multi-actor collaborations and making sense of the local ‘place’.” Journal of Rural Studies, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103976.
Fuentes, Claudia De, David Doloreux, and Stephen Quilley. 2025. “Place-based rural development: building capacities, multi-actor collaborations and making sense of the local ‘place’.” Journal of Rural Studies. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103976.
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