C<sc>ourtney</sc> P., L<sc>épicier</sc> D. and S<sc>chmitt</sc> B. Spatial patterns of production linkages in the context of Europe's small towns: how are rural firms linked to the local economy?, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. Small towns have received increasing attention from policy-makers aiming to stimulate rural development...

The determinants of local economic performance have provided a focus for theoretical debate and posed a conundrum for rural policy makers aiming to address local and regional disparities in the face of global competitiveness. The complex interrelationship of potential explanatory factors is...

Over recent years, socio-economic restructuring has tended to undermine the tradition al functions of small rural towns. Empirical evidence also suggests that significant proportion s of economic transactions are carried out through the region al, national an d international economy....

The diversity of woodland ownership in England has increased in recent decades to encompass a wide range of non-financially-oriented owners, many with little previous experience of woodland management. With public benefits such as environmental conservation, amenity and carbon sequestration...

In this article, comparisons are made of several spatial econometric approaches to estimation of multiequation models of small region development applied to rural community growth. Spatial extensions of the Carlino and Mills’s 1987 and Boarnet’s 1994 models are estimated to analyze...

[fre] L'examen de la façon dont se combinent localement les principales activités économiques met en évidence le poids croissant dans les emplois ruraux, des activités destinées à satisfaire les besoins des populations locales, activités qui constituent le socle d'une économie dite «...

[spa] Comunas rurales y pequenas ciudades en la jerarquia urbana . Un factor déterminante de las dinâmicas demogrâficas y del empleo de las comunas rurales y de ciertas pequenas ciudades es el alojamiento de las ciudades. Cuando se esta alejado de las influencias urbanas, la dinâmica...

SCHMITT B. (1999) Economic geography and contemporary rural dynamics: an empirical test on some French regions, Reg. Studies 33 , 697-711. This paper presents an economic geography framework used to account for rural population and employment changes. Besides agglomerative forces, these models...