, identified the need for rural policies to look beyond agriculture and offer new trajectories of development. It concluded that …This book examines the major rural developments and the issues that policy makers have been dealing with across the … OECD over the last two decades. The OECD Conference, held in Siena, Italy, in July 2002, on the Future of Rural Policy …

wireless as a platform to provide low-cost high-performance access networks in rural and remote areas. The paper finds that DSL …

of a low density remote area with an economic base facing serious challenges and little more than its own assets to rely … on for its economic development. This book focuses mainly on how the area’s substantial natural and cultural resources … can make a more important contribution in a forward-looking and integrated development strategy. …

, institutional and cultural links. Improving accessibility to the region, ensuring sustainable development of its fisheries … territories: focus co-operation efforts on targeted themes and issues; draw up a regional development strategy; promote greater …