Rural tourism has become a significant economic activity in Spain, contributing also to the social revitalisation of rural areas. However, rural tourism destinations face particular challenges with respect to commercialisation and promotion. Because rural tourism industry remains highly...

The article describes the landscape planning possibilities for changing of rural zone functions on an example from a problem area in the district of Kaliningrad. During the field season of 2003 the group of landscape-ecological planning of Faculty of Geography and Geoecology, Kalinigrad State...

Serbia has extraordinary conditions for considerably bigger herbal and livestock organic production. The constant growth of the demand for the organic products in the world points to the fact that this method of production can be extremely profitable if natural resources, knowledge and...

Recent events, such as the 2008 food price crisis, have focussed global attention on the agriculture and food sectors. In particular, many countries have become increasingly concerned with the issue of ensuring the security of their food supply and one key element of this is who has power within...

With increasing political pressure to produce more food whilst being environmentally and socially considerate, alongside the need to cope with climatic extremes and financial instability, farming needs to become more sustainable. To monitor and improve understanding of sustainable agriculture,...

O objetivo deste artigo é o de coletar e agregar dados e informações econômicas e sociais sobre a região da Amazônia Legal, de forma a auxiliar na análise sobre a proposta de implantação de usinas hidrelétricas previstas no Plano de Aceleração do Crescimento (PAC). A fundamentação...

O presente trabalho tem por objetivo estimar o valor de visitação da Rua do Porto (ex-Rua da Praia), em Piracicaba (SP), que está localizada à margem esquerda do rio Piracicaba e antigamente habitada por pescadores e construtores de barcos. Hoje é área de preservação histórica, ainda...

The main objective of this study was to understand the rural energy consumption of the farming households. The data used for the study were obtained through a four-stage sampling procedure which resulted in a sample size of 120 households. Logistic regression procedure was used to determine the...