Educación Superior y Desarrollo Rural Sostenible. Carlos Alberto Hernández Medina

Concepts relative to the regional development, rural sociology, territorial rural development, the regional policy and the public policies are analyzed. The Cuban institutional model, with a marked centralism, is expressed in logics that prolong the action of the central public actors. The non-existence of coordination or agreement spaces obeys partly to that the institutions officials that intervene in the territory don't consider necessary this interaction, neither have they looked for to generate it. This is translated in bad operation and it hinders the social mobilization around an integral vision of future that solves the contradictions of the effective development model. The social agreement is incipient and the local population expresses more a feeling of   support that of enjoying the development  The pattern that articulates us to the region and the world economy doesn solve the population's urgent problems and it is expressed in deterioration of ecosystems, environmental conditions and life’s quality. It is in game the social and environmental sustainability of a model that privileges the growth based on extraction of natural resources economies without benefit for the region. Superior education institutions always have played an important role in the design of the oriented regional rural development public policies. At the moment they are called to play a paper every more active day on the matter. It requires that their professors, investigators, students and directors are conscientious of their important paper in such scope. It entails to that one of the capacities to develop in such is its roll of citizens.

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