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In Latvia, many of recent cultural activities have been established and developed as a response to decreasing of economic activities as well as shrinking processes of population and institutions in rural territories. The aim of the paper is to analyse the development strategies of five planning regions of Latvia in order to examine the role of cultural resources and activities in terms of regional development. The paper consists of the theoretical review of culture-led strategies as well as the content analysis of...

Rural depopulation and shrinking are common processes for Latvia during last few decades that call for different ways of revitalizing of rural territories and communities. As the authors of the paper have discovered, better results for economic and social revitalizing of rural territories are reached when all involved social agents (local municipalities, NGOs, entrepreneurs, museums, religious organizations etc.) are linked in a horizontal network and have found ways for mutual cooperation. At the same time, Latvi...