This paper establishes an analytical framework for understanding and assessing Indigenous economic development and well-being in a place-based context. It identifies the importance of flexibility in geographic scale for organising policies for Indigenous communities, development objectives that...

Central to this discourse are response to two-fold questions, namely; How do SMEs take part in capacity-building in local society? How should rural tourism SMEs be fostered to raise their capacity? The new paradigm of Rural Regional Development, mainly based on Rural Tourism activities which...

The situation, development lines and perspectives of small and medium-sized towns in Germany and France are compared and similarities and differences within the central place systems and the spatial planning of both countries are discussed. With different approaches to definition, these towns...