""Woodsqueer" is sometimes used to describe the mindset of a person who has taken to the wild for an extended period of time. Gretchen Legler is no stranger to life away from the rapid-fire pace of the twenty-first century, which can often lead to a kind of stir-craziness. Woodsqueer chronicles...

This Special Issue contains articles include, but not limited to, empirical, analytical, or design-oriented approaches to the following topics: Monitoring of carrying capacity and mechanisms for managing tourist flows in rural areas; Systems and tools to measure the social, economic, and...

A project called "A Program of Sustainable Development of the Traditional Crafts, Artistic and Cultural Values, and Ethnic Values of the Rural Region of Babina Greda" was started up in Vukovar Srijem County. Regarding the fact that the woman artist Ana Veric lives in Babina Greda, and that she...

The present paper aims to assess to what extent the rural development policies have had any impact on the Romanian rural household. For this purpose, it was decided to develop a theoretical model for assessing the degree of modernization and socio-economic development of rural areas from the...

As a basic element of the sustainable development of an area, the demographic component plays an essential role, being considered, most of the time, as representing its backbone. The stock of demographic resources, as well as their structure is a starting point in elaborating any alternative for...

The addressing to rural areas, coupled with the identification of indicators characterizing the degree of resource endowment, derives both from the size of the rural area and also from the share of employment in productive activities of social and cultural services, habitat, etc. Although the...

The present paper intends to establish a reciprocity relationship between the modernization and development level of the rural space, as main modernization-development point of the rural household. On the basis of the interdependence relation between rural area modernization and development, the...