Social strategies, crisis and rural governance. Paradoxes of resilience in the Pyrenees mountains, Navarra

Abstract

The keys for social development and sustainability in the mountain rural world in Southern Europe have been redefined by the new territorial governance, the mobilities and the impact of the crisis. This transformation is particularly evinced in the Spanish case. The results of the research carried out in the Navarra Pyrenees indicated the role played by the family strategies and the local associations as building blocks for resilience. It is something frequently ignored in the policies as well as in the ways of governance, but, a sociological approach allows documenting them as decisive social innovation resources in particularly vulnerable contexts and unfavorable situations.