U.S.-Czech Research: Competing Visions of Development of Rural Areas

美国的目标是-捷克密苏里州哥伦比亚大学的J. Sanford Rikoon和捷克布杰约维采的景观生态学研究所的Miloslav Lapka之间的研究项目是加强新农村发展方案比较分析所需的理论基础，特别是在标准经济和生活质量指标表现不佳的边缘地区。这将通过汇集一个团队的高级和初级美国和捷克研究人员在政治生态学，景观研究和空间分析的互补专业知识来实现。美国-捷克团队将对美国和中欧农村地区进行研究，采用跨学科方法，研究政治，经济，社会文化和生态变量。 结果预计将融合现象学和实证研究的创新方式，完善决策框架，纳入地方和社区层面的观点，更有效和现实的地方和区域发展规划。 成功将加强我们对替代方案的分析，并提高我们对当地个人和社区表达的相互竞争的愿景在资源开发决策中可能产生的有益影响的理解。 这个跨学科项目通过使美国和中欧的专家能够联合收割机互补人才，并在共同感兴趣和能力强的领域共享研究资源，实现了推进科学知识的计划目标。 更广泛的影响包括美国学生参与国外合作研究的早期职业接触，这可能导致未来与欧洲同行就可持续性，旅游业发展和农村经济战略等全球重要主题进行合作。

The goal of this U.S.-Czech research project between J. Sanford Rikoon of the University of Missouri Columbia and Miloslav Lapka of the Institute of Landscape Ecology, in Ceske Budejovice, is to strengthen the theoretical foundation required for comparative analysis of new rural development programs, particularly in marginal regions characterized by low performance on standard economic and quality-of-life-indicators. This will be accomplished by bringing together a team of senior and junior U.S. and Czech researchers with complementary expertise in political ecology, landscape studies, and spatial analysis. The U.S. -Czech team will undertake a study of U.S. and Central European rural areas, with an interdisciplinary approach that examines political, economic, socio-cultural and ecological variables. Results are expected to blend phenomenological and empirical research in innovative ways to refine a decision framework that incorporates local and community level perspectives for more effective and realistic local and regional development planning. Success would enhance our analysis of alternative schemes and improve our understanding of the beneficial influence that competing visions expressed by local individuals and communities can have in resource development decisions. This interdisciplinary project fulfills the program objective of advancing scientific knowledge by enabling experts in the United States and Central Europe to combine complementary talents and share research resources in areas of strong mutual interest and competence. Broader impacts include the early career exposure of U.S. student participants to cooperative research abroad that may lead to future partnering with European counterparts on topics of global importance such as sustainability, tourism development, and rural economic strategies.