The conference will address a wide range of topics relevant to the social development of rural areas in Europe, such as ruralism and rurality, social inequalities and regional disparities, multi-level governance, top-down policies and bottom-up activities, demographic changes, actors and conflicts of landscape change, rural labour markets, gender issues as well as problems of maintaining and transforming infrastructure and welfare services.
The conference will consist of three full days for thematic sessions and keynotes (Wednesday to Friday: June 14–16, 2017). On the final day (Saturday: June 17, 2017), two excursions to rural areas in Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt that were subject to a variety of socio-economic, political and landscape transformations in the past decades will be organised.
Information on participating / attending:
The conference language will be English.
Date:
06/14/2017 09:00 - 06/17/2017 16:00
Event venue:
Thünen Institute
Forum
Bundesallee 50
38116 Braunschweig
Niedersachsen
Germany
Target group:
Journalists, Scientists and scholars
Email address:
Relevance:
international
Subject areas:
Geosciences, Social studies, Traffic / transport, Zoology / agricultural and forest sciences
Types of events:
Conference / symposium / (annual) conference
Entry:
06/08/2017
Sender/author:
Dr. Michael Welling
Department:
Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
Event is free:
no
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event57747
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