Kennzeichnend für ländliche Räume in Deutschland sind eine starke Ausdifferenzierung nach unterschiedlichen Funktionen und die Polarisierung zwischen ökonomisch prosperierenden und strukturschwachen Gebieten. Hieraus erwachsen differenzierte Anforderungen an die Strategien und Instrumente...

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...

This article analyses the intertemporal development of the regional and spatial distribution of agricultural production in the territory of the EC-9. The analysis is based on a unique set of data: the analysed territory has been divided into 88 regions and data from these regions over a period...

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...