Monday,
August 20

11:30

Governance & policy

Kosic, K.K.

Rural tourism in Serbia - Condition and perspectives of development

Loudiyi, S.

Planning strategies and governance issues in the French rural urban fringes.

Gkartzios, M.

Evidence of counterurbanisation and challenges for spatial planning: The Irish experience

11:30

Regional change

Sallee, B.S.

Modern Geographical Education and the Sustainable Management of Changes in Rural Europe

Santangelo, M.

A rural issue in post-industrial regions. The case of Lombardy in Italy

Terluin, I.J.

Comparative analysis of leading and lagging rural regions in OECD countries in the 1980s and 1990s

Iliopoulou, P.A.

Typologies for rural development in Greece

14:30

Governance & landscape

Daalhuizen, F.B.C.

New activities, changing landscapes? The changing soul and body of the Dutch countryside, 1980-2005

Feliu, F.

Disclosing and linking landscape discourses and land use changes in European mountainous rural areas. An empirical investigation extending the Q methodology in the Catalan Pyrenees.

Stav, T.S.

Caught in the middle: how planners tackle the conflict of development pressures and the will to preserve open landscape

Collier, J.

Stakeholder attitudes towards new nature in post-industrially harvested peatland landscapes in Ireland

Tuesday,
August 21

11:00

Landscape change

Soini, K.

Cultural sustainability of rural landscape in Finland

Foley, I.

Establishing a methodology to determine attitudes towards the appearance of settlements in the rural landscape

Brinkhuijsen, M.

Genius Loci as unique selling point. How landscape design for leisure and tourism can add to landscape identity.

14:00

Landscape change

Polman, N.B.P.

A contractual approach for analysing Agri-Environmental Schemes in EU

Harvey, F.J.

Polish Cadastres? Institutions and Interactions: Anthropological and geographical perspectives on property elasticity in Poland

Terluin, I.J.

Less favoured areas in the EU: Despite relatively low farm incomes no rapid decline of the number of farms

16:00

Societal relations

Scott, M.J.

Civil society and contested ruralities in Ireland

Strijker, D.

Rural youth culture: sheds ('keten') in the Netherlands and North Germany

Droogleever Fortuijn, J.C.

Migration expectations among youth in the Veenkoloniën in the Netherlands and the Westhoek in Flanders

Vermeij, L.

Social community at the Dutch countryside

Wednesday,
August 22

9:00

Agricultural change

Dannenberg, P.D. & J. Jörgensen

Structural Changes of Farming in Rural Areas of Eastern Germany

Copus, A.K.

Multifunctional Agriculture and Rural Viability, an Analysis of Farm Household involvement in the Rural Labour Markets.

Hoffmann, H.C.

Assessing the changing face of the Alpine Region – The development, driving forces and outlook of the agro-structural change

Oconnor, D.

Social Care Farming in Ireland – Moving Towards Multifunctionality

11:00

Agricultural change

Muhammad, S.

Combating Desertification by Spatially Dynamic Decision Support System

Leeuwen, E.S. van

Regional Disparities in Agricultural Specialization in the European Union, 1950-2000

Dobrosi, D.L.

A spatial decision support tool-set for regional change to biomass for energy

14:00

Agricultural change

Farrell, M.F.

The Changing Face of Irish Agriculture – Reflected in the Teagasc Extension Advisory Services.

Bagnoli, LB

Biological Floriculture: a geographical approach

Gulumser, A.A.G.

The changing trends of rural self-employment in Europe

14:00

Regional change & residential use

Henseler, A.H.

The re-use of redundant farm buildings as a consequence of the structural and functional change of agriculture in the Dutch-German border region

Koca, F.K.

Transforming rural setting of Karabaglar, Mugla