Contributed by geography and other scholars from Europe and based on presentations given at the international conference, European rural peripheries caught between stagnation and take-off, held in Oldenburg, Germany, in November 2014, the 16 essays in this volume examine rural peripheries in Austria, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Scotland, and Spain and their structural disadvantages and economic and residential revitalization. They focus on how actors in specific rural areas identify and revalue internal potentials and unlock new resources of their regions; the role of external actors, the local population, and further stakeholders in these processes; the impact of European, national, and regional policies on the dissolution and recreation of rural peripheries; and the obstacles to overcoming structural economic, social, and spatial advantages. They emphasize regional governance, multiple actors of peripheralization and revitalization, economic transformations in tourism and renewable energies, mobility, and challenges due to climate change and sustainability. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2017 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
Rural peripheries are usually framed as regions with severe structural disadvantages in economic, demographic, social and locational terms. While this has been true for many peripheries for decades and seems to deteriorate further in the course of globalisation, there are also dissimilar developments. Some peripheral areas across Europe display signs of an economic renaissance, established innovative models of governance and created new self-esteem. This volume provides an overview of research on seemingly, current and former peripheral areas and on processes of peripheralisation in Europe. Particular emphasis is given to questions of local and regional governance, to multiple actors of peripheralisation and residential revitalisation as well as to economic and ecological transformations. (Subject: Geography, Economics, Sociology, Environmental Sciences, Rural Studies) [ Series: Rural Areas: Issues of Local and Regional Development / Laendliche Raeume. Beitraege zur lokalen und regionalen Entwicklung, Vol. 1]
