The starting point of the EDORA project was the recognition that, rather than becoming more uniform in character, rural Europe is, in many ways, becoming increasingly diverse, implying new challenges and opportunities. The project’s overarching aim was to examine the process of...

This paper provides an overview of contemporary trends in national employment and unemployment before providing a synopsis of the regional distribution of unemployment and how it has changed in recent years. Using Quarterly National Household Survey data (QNHS) the analysis then focuses on a...

Background Whilst occupational fatalities amongst farm workers have been studied internationally little research has been published concerning farm fatalities or the demography farm fatalities in Ireland. Aims 1) To establish the incidence of farm fatalities during the 1992 – 2009 period in...

This report provides an overview of the methodology adopted in identifying and classifying rural areas in B&H. It provides an overview of B&H, in terms of the administrative structure of the country and distribution and demographic structure of the population before presenting the methodology...

Over recent years there has emerged an increased awareness of the importance of strategic spatial planning and of the extent to which concepts such as place and space really matter (Faludi, 2000). An enhanced understanding of the geography of living and the economy requires not only a knowledge...

Spatial planning concepts are increasingly prominent in discussions and strategies focusing on regional and rural development. This paper places Ireland’s National Spatial Strategy within an EU context through a brief review of the literature discussing and assessing the European Spatial...

This report outlines a statistical approach, based on Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Cluster Analysis (CA), to the identification of rural planning regions. Serbia, which is undergoing a period of reconstruction and development of institutional and human capacity, is used as a casestudy....