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Sep 8, 2023 · 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 ...
- 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...
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Jan 25, 2021 · Development of the number of municipalities, average population size of municipalities, voter turnout in municipal elections, share of urban municipalities, and number of joint municipal authorities between 1972 and 2017 (Statistics Finland Citation 2020; The association of finnish local and regional authorities Citation 2020)
- Pekka Valkama, Lasse Oulasvirta
- 2021
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.
Municipalities of Finland. Contents. 1 Government. 2 Taxation and ... 6 Identification and heraldry. 7 Capital region. 8 Mergers and reform. 9 Municipalities by ...
Mar 22, 2024 · Pedersöre is a municipality in Finland, located on the west coast of the country. Pedersöre is situated in Ostrobothnia, along the Gulf of Bothnia. The population of Pedersöre is approximately 11,000, while the sub-region has a population of approximately 50,000. It is the 88th most populous municipality in Finland.
Jan 1, 2013 · The question of the viability of rural Finland is a concern of many, as current migration patterns are changing the rural demography. The 2009 Census shows that approximately 35 % of Finnish people reside in rural areas, most of them in rural areas close to cities.
