Tourism represents one of the most important income sources for Italy. In recent years, apart from “traditional …” destinations, tourism supply is widely changing in order to satisfy the customers “love for variety” and valorise marginal … resources, then new formulas are emerging (e.g. agritourism). This work aims to elaborate and estimate an econometric model able …

Due to economic and population growth farmland and to a lesser extend other undeveloped areas are under pressure in the … urban-rural fringe in British Columbia, Canada. The objectives of this paper are to determine if residential property values … instead of market prices of the property result in the same findings. We estimate a SUR (Seemingly Unrelated Regression) model …

of Life). Imbedded in the model are a complete dynamic input-output model, and an agecohort education demographic model …

locally based where agricultural policy integrates with a broader policy for rural areas growth. In this context, the paper …

software was used to simulate the effects of a number of development scenarios for a remote rural area in Northern Scotland, i ….e. Caithness & Sutherland, which is characterised by multifunctional agriculture. In this paper, the context of the modelling work … in policy and socioeconomic terms is first described. This is followed by the specification of the model and of the …

actions. Among these, a primary role has been given to evaluation. In this context, the paper deals with what has been … realized for the evaluation of rural development policy, comparing various experiences in Italy with reference to the Rural … reports of 14 RDPs in the centre-north of Italy. Through the analyses and the comparisons of these reports, the paper is an …

Agriculture and Rural Development).. It sets the discourse on multifunctional agriculture in the context of what OECD calls the … ‘New Rural Paradigm’, and explores the ways in which both market and non-market ‘functions’ of agriculture and farm … households link with economic development and quality of life in different rural territories, and how different kinds of policies …

explore the influence of different policies on rural development outcomes. In order to deal with both market and non …

The paper uses bi-regional CGE models to analyse the effects of a change in agricultural support on two (very different …) case study regions, one within Scotland, the other in Greece. Both regions are predominantly rural in nature but contain an … urban centre as well as a rural hinterland. The results show qualitative and quantitative differences in the total effects …

without formerly developing an input-output table. The approach is applied to four case studies in the Swiss mountain regions … and tested for three scenarios. Our results clarify the role that agriculture still plays in the context of rural … regions and that future developments lead to a marked decline in this contribution. Rural development strategies have to take …