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Introduction: Motivation, Aim and Contributions

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The chapter offers an introduction to the relationship between social capital and local development processes in European rural areas. Focusing on the EU LEADER initiative, the chapter draws attention to how social factors of each territory influence socio-economic variables, thus explaining heterogeneity in socio-economic outcomes. The chapter highlights that despite the pressing social needs arising from the recent economic and financial crises, EU funding and decision-making bodies have not explicitly addressed and assessed the role of social dynamics and specifically of social capital, which still remain a black box.

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  1. Department of Territorio e Sistemi Agro-Forestali (TESAF), University of Padova, Padova, Italy

    Elena Pisani, Laura Secco & Giorgio Franceschetti

  2. Department of International and European Economic Studies, Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece

    Asimina Christoforou

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    Elena Pisani

  2. University of Padova , Legnaro, Italy

    Giorgio Franceschetti

  3. University of Padova , Legnaro, Italy

    Laura Secco

  4. Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece

    Asimina Christoforou

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Pisani, E., Christoforou, A., Secco, L., Franceschetti, G. (2017). Introduction: Motivation, Aim and Contributions. In: Pisani, E., Franceschetti, G., Secco, L., Christoforou, A. (eds) Social Capital and Local Development. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54277-5_1

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