The paper looks first at the geographical conditions, specifically the economic, socio-cultural, demographic, and environmental, including local conditions as the vital factor underlying the course of transformation in mountainous rural areas. Next, the paper considers the results of the case...

The paper presents the approach to the analysis of spatial relationships between the town and surrounding rural areas. The main objective was to compare the competitiveness and living conditions of the areas located in the surroundings of towns with different number of inhabitants and situated...

A vidékfejlesztési programok működésének szerény eredménye, hogy az elmúlt tíz évben magyarországi alkalmazásuk hozzájárult a vidéki térségekből történő elvándorlás mérséklődéséhez. A vidékfejlesztési támogatások a vidéki gazdaság, a környezet és a...

Since measures of well-being are meant to be an exercise in documentation, but also a tool for policies and priorities, we suggest an operative way to use them. We evaluate both technical and social efficiency of countries in producing the Better Life Index (BLI) objectives. To assess the...