Search results
Jun 8, 2020 · In Finland, there were large reforms in the 1960s and early 1970s as well as a more recent wave between 2005 and around 2010 (e.g., Saarimaa & Tukiainen 2014; 2015 ). These reforms have seen the number of municipalities in Finland reduced from nearly 600 to the current 310.
- Kim Strandberg, Marina Lindell
- 2020
Although the median size of municipalities in 2021 was under 6000 inhabitants, over 40% of the Finnish population lived in the nine cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants. The largest of them is the capital city Helsinki, with approximately 658,500 inhabitants, followed by Espoo, with ca. 297,100 and Tampere, with ca. 244,200 inhabitants ...
People also ask
Are rural communities growing or shrinking in Finland?
How has the Finnish municipal restructuring strategy progressed?
What role do municipalities play in local development in Finland?
Which Nordic countries have a large wave of municipal mergers?
Jan 25, 2021 · According to empirical studies, municipal mergers have not delivered the expected savings on municipal spending. Vartiainen (Citation 2015) and Saarimaa and Tukiainen (Citation 2018) compared changes in the expenditures of merged municipalities and non-merged comparable municipalities and could find no evidence of cost savings with municipal ...
- Pekka Valkama, Lasse Oulasvirta
- 2021
- Abstract
- Community Resilience as Political Agency
- Data and Method
- Results: Building Political Community Resilience Through Diverse Tactics
- Discussion and Conclusion
Because of population decline and public-sector funding crises, rural communities all over Europe face the same challenges in maintaining their vitality (Elshof et al., 2014; Hospers and Reverda, 2015). Globalization and urbanization create pressure to centralize services and industries in cities. In addition to losing inhabitants and services to c...
The concept of resilience was first applied in the 1970s to explain ecological systems’ adaptivity to adversity (Norris et al., 2008). According to Holling and Gunderson (2002, p. 28), this refers to ‘the magnitude of disturbance that can be absorbed before the system changes its structure by changing the variables and processes that control behavi...
In Finland, rural local affairs are largely organized through the municipality system, and province-level or village-level administrative structures are not significant (Ylikangas, 1991 pp. 97–98). Finland is (at the moment) divided into nineteen provinces whose main tasks are regional development and planning which emphasizes the independent role ...
The informants described various activities through which they had tried to influence local development after a municipal merger. The activities were diverse and sometimes contradictory; therefore, we do not try to identify any single pathway or strategy of resilience. Instead, we seek to respect the diversity of tactics the communities adopted, wh...
We see the political dimension as an important part of community resilience. For example, MacKinnon and Derickson (2012)criticize the concept of resilience for overemphasizing the adaptive role of communities, and they call for approaches that highlight communities’ active role in shaping their own destiny. The addition of the political dimension t...
Jan 1, 2023 · Moreover, according to recent figures from Statistics Finland, more than half of the Finnish municipalities belonging to this group are growing in terms of population. In other words, at least in Finland, rural communities that are located close to a city are more likely growing than shrinking in terms of their population.
Feb 20, 2007 · The ratio, which describes how many non-working persons there are per one hundred employed persons, shows great regional variation. In rural municipalities with migration loss the ratio can be over 200, while in the best performing municipalities around Helsinki it is lower than 100. Table 2. Population by primary activity 1900-2004 (1,000 persons)
have decreased in Finland in 2015-2019 (Statistics Finland 2020b). Future development • The proportion of municipalities with expected population loss is particularly large in Finland (49%) (Sánchez Gassen N. & Heleniak T. 2019). • The working-age population is expected to decrease, and the decrease will be strongest in rural
