Healthy growth towards sustainability requires evaluation methods that incorporate ecological and economic effects. Evaluating ecological effects in monetary terms would permit the use of Cost-Benefit Analysis. Major methodological difficulties hamper use of this approach. In this paper an...

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to examine growth expectations and factors influencing growth of side activities in rural areas. Design/methodology/approach – Data were collected in the rural areas of 36 Dutch municipalities by means of a detailed survey. This resulted in 260...