How to Foster Rural Sustainability through Farming Workforce Rejuvenation? Looking into Involuntary Newcomers’ Spatial (Im)mobilities

Different Farming Methods – But No Solution to Improve Rural Sustainability and to Save Australia’s Family Farm

Infrastructure and urban sustaInabIlIty: lookIng back and lookIng forward Sustainability

Sustainability has become a very prominent element in the day-to-day debate on urban policy and the expression of that policy in urban planning decisions. The heritage of this interest lies in the steady evolution of ideas concerning the environmental and ecological impact of economic development. Beginning perhaps with the work of the Club of Rome but accelerating sharply with the insights of ...

The sociocultural sustainability of livestock farming: an inquiry into social perceptions of dairy farming.

Over the past 50 years, the scale and intensity of livestock farming have increased significantly. At the same time, Western societies have become more urbanised and fewer people have close relatives involved in farming. As a result, most citizens have little knowledge or direct experience of what farming entails. In addition, more people are expressing concerns over issues such as farm animal ...

Changing minor rural road networks in relation to landscape sustainability and farming practices in West Europe

Use and characteristics of the minor rural road network have changed dramatically in West-European intensive agricultural landscapes. These changes are caused by modern agriculture, by changing values of the road’s verges and by the multifunctionalization of the rural landscape. Changing the network, conventional farming practices often decrease landscape ecological stability. These problems ca...

Spatial Analysis through the Looking Glass

One of the delightful attractions that mathematics and geography have in common is that they offer fresh views of the world. Both fields of inquiry are circumspect almost by definition, and as soon as one looks around without prejudice, one discovers alternatives to one’s provincial world view. In mathematics, formalism and generalization are the seemingly sterile keys that open the gates to fe...