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Proiect
Proiect
OF BUCHAREST
FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT, ECONOMIC ENGINEERING IN
AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT
DISTANCE AND PART-TIME LEARNING DEPARTMENT
Presented in partial fulfilment of the requirement for the degree of the Master of Sciences
by
Cătălin Preduț
Master Management and Rural Development
‘Pure’ nature is nature unaffected by man, history or society. In the countryside we feel, taste, see
and hear man’s presence. The rural cannot be conceived of, experienced or constructed without
the presence of man. The rural, then, is the locus where the co-production of man and nature is
located.
Consequently, rurality as such is both the result and expression of this co-production. Co-
production refers to the interaction between man and living nature, that is the process of
production in which ‘nature’ is converted into goods and services for human consumption.
The second boundary, that between the rural and the urban can now be defined as the next logical
step. The urban is the locus where the co-production of man and nature stops. Cities may well
derive resources such as cotton, iron ore, coal and uranium from nature. But they derive these
products in the first place as dead material and, secondly, they do not reproduce the nature
concerned.
III. Read the article written by Prof. John W. Keller on the importance of rural development
in the 21st century and sum up the main ideas.
The following presentation attempts to explain the role of the rural areas and country towns when it
comes to local area persistence or dissolution. The main point the author tries to explain is the fact
that where rural settlements exist, inhabitants within must focus on the immediate place and make
the word "local" have a strong meaning for the community sustenance to be successful.
Although agricultural activities are commonly considered the mainstay of rural areas, one should
consider that more often than not this does not apply, as it can be seen in North American rural
counties, where only 20% depend significantly on farming.
Other than the natural increase, the prime engine of metropolitan growth is rural to urban
migration. The most common factor contributing to rural-to-urban migration is rural unemployment
resulting in part from rural areas having higher fertility levels than urban areas.