Carolin Schneider

Abstract

In a context of highly heterogeneous development prospects for rural areas in the German Federal Republic, maintaining public services and infrastructure in peripheral locations is facing major challenges. Since the 1990s, a number of nationwide and publicly-funded pilot schemes have experimented with innovative approaches for the long-term transformation of the way public services and infrastructure are provided in the countryside. Nevertheless, the continuity of these approaches often turns out to be problematic. This paper analyses a series of pilot schemes as instruments for territorial development and presents new findings at multiple levels for enhancing their performance.

Keywords: basic services and infrastructure, demographic decline, Germany, innovation, pilot schemes, rural areas

Alistair Adam Hernández [adam@arl-net.de], Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association
Carolin Schneider [carolin-schneider@freenet.de], Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association

Citation

APA: Adam Hernández, A., & Schneider, C. (2021). Experimenting for long-term transformation. Key insights into 20 years of German pilot schemes for innovative rural public service and infrastructure provision. Europa XXI, 41, 107-128. https://doi.org/10.7163/Eu21.2021.41.5
MLA: Adam Hernández, Alistair, and Schneider, Carolin. "Experimenting for long-term transformation. Key insights into 20 years of German pilot schemes for innovative rural public service and infrastructure provision". Europa XXI, vol. 41, 2021, pp. 107-128. https://doi.org/10.7163/Eu21.2021.41.5
Chicago: Adam Hernández, Alistair, and Schneider, Carolin. "Experimenting for long-term transformation. Key insights into 20 years of German pilot schemes for innovative rural public service and infrastructure provision". Europa XXI 41 (2021): 107-128. https://doi.org/10.7163/Eu21.2021.41.5
Harvard: Adam Hernández, A., & Schneider, C. 2021. "Experimenting for long-term transformation. Key insights into 20 years of German pilot schemes for innovative rural public service and infrastructure provision". Europa XXI, vol. 41, pp. 107-128. https://doi.org/10.7163/Eu21.2021.41.5

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