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Zusammenfassung Instigated by technological and political change, Europe's rural areas have undergone profound and all-pervasive restructuring processes Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Introduction: Winning and losing in Europe's rural areas! Doris Schmied. The Changing Rural Economy: Employment restructuring in rural areas! Anne Green; Agriculture on the verge of the 21st century: the challenge of coming to terms with the environment! Maryvonne Bodiguel; Global integration and the industrialization of the countryside! Christos Kalantaridis; Sustainable rural tourism and rural change! Derek Hall; Rural areas in the digital economy! Jeremy Millard; Supply of goods and services in sparsely populated regions: the example of Sweden's glesbygd! Günter Löffler. The Changing Rural Society: Incomers and locals in the European countryside! Doris Schmied; The situation of young people in rural areas! Walter Bien! Lothar Lappe and Richard Rathgeber; Older people in rural Europe: a comparative analysis! Thomas Scharf! G. Clare Wenger! Frans Thissen and Vanessa Burholt; Structural funds and gender mainstreaming: counting heads or changing structures?! Gunnel Forsberg; Tackling social exclusion: an evaluation of local exchange and trading schemes (LETS)! Colin C. Williams. The Changing Rural Areas: A booming country - a booming countryside? The Celtic Tiger phenomenon and the consequences for rural areas! Mary Cawley; Mountainous areas - forever losing? The examples of Oberallgäu (Germany) and Sierra de Francia (Spain)! Alois Müller; Spatial restructuring of rural Finland! Markku Tykkyläinen; Social capital and rural development: from win-lose to win-win with the LEADER initiative! Gilda Farrell and Samuel Thirion; Index.
