The ROBUST Policy Hub has been created in an attempt to draw together in one place a number of key materials relating to a long-standing and ongoing series of policy debates with a bearing on rural-urban linkages. The Hub itself is iterative and evolving. It will look to reflect and capture policy developments by bringing together key documentation accompanied by brief explanations and commentary.
Its content has been arranged around the schema illustrated below.
Although we have used this categorisation system, it should not be inferred that we see these elements as being other than part of a much larger - and interconnected - complex whole. Rather like rural-urban linkages themselves, this whole subject area is made up of interconnected and interdependent elements.
Original Policy Hub Structure
Revised schema February 2020
Last updated: 8 October, 2022
A European Green Deal
Territorial Agenda 2020
Long Term Vision for Rural Areas
Farm to Fork
Biodiversity Strategy 2030
Circular Economy Action Plan
New Industrial strategy
SME Strategy
Urban Agenda for the EU
Leipzig Charter
CoR Opinion on the Leipzig Charter
Impacts of Demographic Change
Shaping Europe's digital future
Social Business Initiative
The Impact of the Social Economy report