Rural Areas Between Regional Needs and Global Challenges: Transformation in Rural Space

Walter Leimgruber, Chang-yi David Chang: Introduction: Rural space, between marginality and vital importance

Part 1 Theory and methods

·         Vladimir Ira, Impact of rural restructuring on the time-space behavioural

·         Hayeong Jeong, Kakuya Matsushima and Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Identity and Community Actions in Marginal Rural Areas

Part 2 Transformation processes

·         Krystian Heffner, Rural Labour Markets and Peripherization Processes in Poland

·         Steve Déry, Maëva Lucas and Louis Boisclair, Agrarian and urban transitions in Lam Dong province, Vietnam: adaptation or marginalisation for ethnic minorities?

·         Maria Eugenia Cepparo, Advances in marginality studies in southern Mendoza, Argentine

·         Margarita Schmidt, The local-global interaction in the Uco valley (Mendoza, Argentina): overcoming marginality or increasing heterogeneity?

Part 3 Primary activities

·         Chiung-Wen Chang, An alternative agriculture space in a Taiwanese tribe, Kalala

·         Yasutaka Matsuo, Restructuring of Japanese forestry and the current condition for the sustainability of more advanced forestry regions

·         Tony Binns & Etienne Nel, Urban agriculture in Zambia

Part 4 Towards a multifunctional rural space

·         Kristijan Nemac and Stanko Pelc, The role of Slovenian traditional handicrafts in present time rural development

·         Céline Burger, Windfarms in champagne-Ardenne Region. An assessment of the acceptability and local governance issue

·         Ai Sugie, Deconstructing financial inclusion and exclusion in the development discourse: case studies of microfinance operations in rural Bangladesh

·         Etienne Nel, Small Town Development in New Zealand: Responses to Marginalization

Summary and conclusions

Chang-yi D. Chang, Walter Leimgruber, Which future for rural space?