Innovations in European Rural Landscapes

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Wiggering, Hubert (Editor), Ende, Hans-Peter (Editor), Knierim, Andrea (Editor), Pintar, Marina (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
• Subjects: Geography.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Regional economics.; Spatial economics.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.; Regional/Spatial Science.; Environmental Monitoring/Analysis.

Rural regions in Europe are evolving under powerful boundary conditions such as globalisation, socio-cultural transformations and climate change, which in turn increases natural hazards. The regional land use and the evolvement of landscapes is increasingly shaped trends and drivers like infrastruct...

Table of Contents:

• Editorial
• The InnoLand approach – experimental research and action in Europe’s rural regions
• The InnoLand regions – a comparative description
• Goriška Brda (Slovenia) – sustainable natural resource management for the prosperity of a rural area
• The changing role of farming in a peripheric South European area – the challenge of the landscape amenities demand
• Problems in agricultural landscape management arising from conflicts of interest – a study in the Trnava Region, Slovak Republic
• Harmonization of agricultural intensification with long-term ecological integrity in Croatia
• Zero emissions region north-eastern Brandenburg – between climate adaptation and challenges for innovative land use
• Regional and regionalised approaches to changing ruralities – Orkney Islands and Scottish Borders
• Epilogue.