Redefining Rural Resources: Local capacity-building in sustainable management of cultural historic environments of mountain summer farming – Omdefinering av lokale ressurser: Lokal kapasitetsbygging i bærekraftig forvaltning av seterområder som kulturmiljø

Over the last decades tourism involving open air activities has conquered a strong niche. A difficult balance exists between developing sustainable rural tourism in accordance to the cultural historic surroundings and on the other hand offering the necessary modern adaptation which tourism requires. This project is focusing on the mountain summer farming (seter) landscape in…

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Innovation in small-scale rural tourism: How to organise and co-operate for improvement and expansion? – Innovasjon i små reiselivsbedrifter i distriktene: Hvordan organisere og samarbeide for forbedringer og vekst?

The main objective of this project is to promote knowledge about how small-scale rural tourism in Norway can expand through innovation and improved organisation. This will be achieved by applying approaches and theories from research on the organisation of innovation. Our focus is particularly on co-operation between business actors, and also the ways in which…

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Conceptions of centre and periphery and the transforming power of mobility – Rural mobilitet

The main objective of this project is to develop new knowledges on how changing mobility patterns challenge conceptions and imaginations about centre and periphery. Sub-goals: 1. To analyse how notions of ‘centre’ and ‘periphery’ are articulated in Norwegian political discourses and incorporated in rural regional policies. 2. To work out cross-category mobilities and interactions. 3.…

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– Fiskarbonden sin arv

In this project we are going to evaluate and give advices to the project ” Fiskarbonden sin arv” which is a development project where emphasis is on cultural landscape, small scale food processing and tourism. The project is runned by Skogselskapet in the contry of Møre and Romsdal.

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The creative farmer – Den kreative trønderbonden

Survey data from 2006 show that almost 60 percent of Norwegian farmers are engaged in other economic activities than traditional farming. This means that farmers use the farms resources in many ways, and that the definition of the term “farmer” should be extended. To be a farmer involves more than producing food and fiber, and…

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