Integrated development models for rural regions can be arranged in 5 key themes:
· Spatial strategy; this involves policy framework at the level of the rural region, coordinating urban development and low impact infrastructure and setting up controls and incentives to avoid sprawl. The focus is on the urban as a priority agenda together with rural linkages and relationships.
· Economic Strategy; this involves urban diversifications and resilience of local economies and employment, rural diversification, urban regeneration and improved rural links, property ownership with social and environmental mental responsibility and public access. The focus is on the social economy and social enterprise in the rural context.
· Social Strategy; this involves housing and service provision to encourage balanced, inclusive and resilient communities, leisure and tourism that is open and accessible, value, and a safeguarded social heritage. The focus lies on the needs and opportunities in different settlement types within rural contexts.
· Environmental Strategy; this involves ecosystem services policy and investment systems, climate change mitigation and adaption, landscape and habitat conservation, and multi-level green-blue infrastructure. The focus is on the agenda for diversification, multifunctional agriculture and forestry.
· Governance strategy; this involves strong and democratic municipal government, healthy finances and an active role in the local economy, along with transparency among public and stakeholder participation. The focus is on the capacity for strategic and cross-border coordination at the level of the rural region; as well as sustainable development that caters for the needs of all stakeholders, and does not simply reproduce existing structures of wealth and power.
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