Transport in rural and remote regions receives considerable attention in research, but this is often focussed on specific means of resolving problems in those regions - for example, the role of demand-responsive bus services, or scope for attracting users to rail services. The aim of this paper...

Nonfarm employment plays an important role in absorbing unemployment in rural areas of developing countries. The agricultural transition in Uzbekistan followed by structural transformations in the economy changed the rural economy. Although farm restructuring and farm optimization policies led...

Die Entwicklung des Eifelkreises Bitburg-Prüm vom peripheren Sorgenkind zu einer prosperierenden Wirtschaftsregion hat sich in einem permanenten Strukturwandel vollzogen. Sie zeigt, dass auch dünn besiedelte, wirtschaftlich strukturschwache ländliche Räume, die keine Agglomerations- und...