Building sustainable resilience for food security and livelihood dynamics is explored using the Ethiopia Rural Household Survey panel data. Household resilience scores are derived from measures taken to protect against shocks. The impact of several demographic and socio-economic factors on...

Urban Atlas 2012 is a powerful geographical dataset that describes land use/land cover at high spatial resolution for nearly 700 European Functional Urban Areas of more than 50,000 inhabitants in 31 European countries (EU28 + EFTA). The objective of the work described in this report was to...

The present report describes the work developed by the Murbandy/Moland project (Monitoring Urban Dynamics/Monitoring Land Use Changes). The aim of the report is to disseminate the first results of this research project dedicated to measure and assess urban dynamics through the creation of land...

This report analyses a set of territorial trends at continental and sub-national scale, looking at patterns and determinants of regional growth, while considering pan-European and national characteristics. Past and prospective demographic and economic trends are analysed to provide a picture of...

The European Commission has increasingly highlighted the importance of fostering conditions that support the emergence and flourishing of innovation and entrepreneurship across all regions. The Long-Term Vision for EU's Rural Areas recognises the key role that innovation can play in revitalising...

Our understanding of rural areas in the EU is limited by the lack of comparable geographies. Good analysis is built on spatial units that have similar characteristics. For example, they should be similar in size and capture a similar type of territory. For rural areas, regions are too big and...

This Policy Brief has the twin aims of showing that Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation (S3), despite their sectoral origins, provide a favourable and supportive framework for innovation in rural areas and, on the other hand, that there is a wide range of innovation...

The present study aims at modelling the impact of different CAP (Common Agricultural Policy) scenarios on 6 case study regional economies. The starting point is the construction of a Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) obtained through a combination of mechanical downscaling of higher level...

The main purpose of this research was to construct a multidimensional (composite) index measuring the overall level of rural development and quality of life in individual rural region of a given EU country. In the rural development index (RDI) the rural development domains are represented by...

The work presented in this report is part of the effort to define the landscape state and diversity indicator in the frame of COM (2006) 508 "Development of agri-environmental indicators for monitoring the integration of environmental concerns into the common agricultural policy". The...