Future of Rural Development and its Sustainability Challenges

Rural development, along with other social and economical fields of study, has experienced different theoretical challenges. This paper, with a theoretical approach, has investigated some of these challenges and analyzed the future perspective of rural development. The purpose of this paper is to theoretically analyze the rural development approaches and to visualize the future perspective of some of the modern approaches in rural development. Thus, our method would be documental and critical study of the present approaches and theories of rural development. From 1970s, following the critical and theoretical challenges proposed from dependence schools, post modernism, feminism and social constructivism against common renovation school, rural field become prominent in rural resistant development framework. Moreover, one of the other factors in the extended rural development program and ignorance of common rural development programs is its common historical background with resistant development and environmentalism....