<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The practice of Hungarian rural development planning shows the lack of future orientation. The time horizon of planning is short-term, the strategic way of thinking beyond 7–10 years long period is missing or it has great deficiencies. It is not even considering the long-term opportunities. Therefore, the short term plans are not derived from established perspectives, they do not have sufficient grounds. This paper briefly summarises the achievements of a research activity to make an attempt to prove that despite the limitations in understanding and unfolding the future, it is possible to provide useful information for the planning of rural development in 20 – 30 years or even on several more years. This is based on pre-scenarios, highlighting the high efficiency and unexpected weak signals of the driving forces.</p></abstract>

The practice of Hungarian rural development planning shows the lack of future orientation. The time horizon of planning is short-term, the strategic way of thinking beyond 7–10 years long period is missing or it has great deficiencies. It is not even considering the long-term opportunities. Therefore, the short term plans are not derived from established perspectives, they do not have sufficient grounds. This paper briefly summarises the achievements of a research activity to make an attempt to prove that despite the limitations in understanding and unfolding the future, it is possible to provide useful information for the planning of rural development in 20 – 30 years or even on several more years. This is based on pre-scenarios, highlighting the high efficiency and unexpected weak signals of the driving forces.

Supporting the Absorbent National Rural Development Planning by Scenarios

Centre of Economic Geography and Futures Research, Faculty of Social Sciences and International Relations

Department of European Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences

European Countryside

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The practice of Hungarian rural development planning shows the lack of future orientation. The time horizon of planning is short-term, the strategic way of...

Supporting the Absorbent National Rural Development Planning by Scenarios

Published Online: Oct 07, 2017

Page range: 416 - 434

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/euco-2017-0025

Keywords
Spatial planning, rural development, futures studies, scenarios, weak signals

© 2017 Attila Korompai et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Supporting the Absorbent National Rural Development Planning by Scenarios

Published Online: Oct 07, 2017

Page range: 416 - 434

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/euco-2017-0025

KeywordsSpatial planning, rural development, futures studies, scenarios, weak signals

© 2017 Attila Korompai et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Spatial planning, rural development, futures studies, scenarios, weak signals