While the arrival of the Euro is one of the most eminent events in Western Europe's post-war history, most social science theories take a rather narrow view on technical procedures of introducing a common currency. The literature on 'optimum currency areas', functionalist integration theories...

Multifunctional development of peri-urban agriculture is the central topic of this thesis. Farming structures and agricultural land use in their spatial dimension as well as activities and adaptation behaviour of individual holdings in metropolitan regions of the EU27 were analysed. Results...