Even before the Covid-19 pandemic, residents in peripheral and structurally weak rural areas began to move into the digital age. Digital tools are being used and developed to address existing challenges in rural areas such as local communication, healthcare or mobility. Against the background of...

In vielen strukturschwachen ländlichen Regionen Europas hat sich in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten eine Abwärtsspirale in Gang gesetzt. Zwar sind die konkreten wirtschaftlichen und sozialen Bedingungen in den einzelnen Regionen Europas oft sehr unterschiedlich, dennoch zeigt sich tendenziell...

Structurally weak rural regions are faced with major economic and social challenges. In comparison to predominantly urban regions, they are economically less productive. They provide fewer desired goods and services and the labour market offers few career opportunities. Shops where daily...

In fact, throughout Europe there is an abundance of innovative initiatives to be seen in the countryside (Olmedo/van Twuijver/O'Shaughnessy 2019), advanced by rural inhabitants, social entrepreneurs, or both in collaboration, and which is here termed "social innovation". To social innovation one...

Die Ökologiebewegung wird häufig unter Aspekten der Moral betrachtet. Sowohl in den Medien als auch in der Forschungsliteratur findet man jedoch in aller Regel nur Feststellungen, daß Umweltschützer moralisieren. Es fehlen Analysen, die Auskunft darüber geben, wie moralisiert wird und...

The article deals with the digitalisation of planning from a sociological perspective. The authors summarise results of their international empirical research in an analysis in which they place everyday digital planning practices at the centre of their considerations, where profound and...

Climate change is globally defined as a “reality”. This does not mean however that the way in which it is understood is the same all over the world. Rather, perceptions may differ at different places and times, even if physical and geographical conditions are similar. For the time being,...