Strategic management of sustainable rural development

Rural development is a development outside the city, i.e. urban agglomerations, which implies integral management of the available resources in a sustainable way with the respect for and in coordination with the economic, social and ecologic principles within the scope of a rural area. Strategic management is the instrument that can ensure, so defined, rural development. With the help of strategic management the right questions that developing strategy of rural areas should focus on as well as answer, can be arrived at. Likewise, strongholds can be reached which represent strategic basis for development levers to be used later during the strategic management of sustainable rural development. In essence, strategic management is, figuratively speaking, a light at the end of a tunnel. If we are guided by strategic management we will no more stray in the dark.