Informatics is an important field of practice and study. It is very similar and also close to Information Science. Informatics initially only were considered as a branch of advanced applied science but gradually it has become a domain centric field for information and technological solutions....

Multifunctional development of peri-urban agriculture is the central topic of this thesis. Farming structures and agricultural land use in their spatial dimension as well as activities and adaptation behaviour of individual holdings in metropolitan regions of the EU27 were analysed. Results...