Rural-Urban Relations and Territorial Development in Central and Eastern Europe
A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2024) | Viewed by 12171
Special Issue Editors
Interests: regional development & territorial planning; human & regional geography; settlements systems; urban & rural geography; political geography & geopolitics
Interests: regional development & territorial planning urban environment; environmental impacts of urbanization along the urban-rural gradient; environmental economics; cross-border area development
Interests: deindustrialization and tertiarization; urban regeneration; functional-economic reconversions; built heritage and territorial identity; preservation of local identity values; creative industries; graffiti and street art
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Interests: interdisciplinary research on man–environment interactions; local and regional development; urban–rural relationships and synergies; land use/land cover changes; urban geography
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Knowing and evaluating the impact of the phenomena generated by globalisation are paramount for understanding contemporary spatial dynamics and implementing appropriate territorial development policies. Central and Eastern Europe have experienced a rapid transition from Soviet-inspired, centralised development policies to those based on free competition, which has led to a cascade of phenomena impacting territorial development and the relationships between villages and cities: deindustrialisation, labour migration, depopulation, changes in the functional zoning of human settlements and land use, the expansion and development of peri-urban and metropolitan areas, etc.
For this Special Issue, we are interested in contributions that connect the changes and dynamics of rural–urban relations with territorial development, as well as with the research of phenomena enabling these connections. The studies can be both theoretical in nature, aimed at improving the theoretical–methodological framework, or in the form of empirical research and regional case studies targeting the key phenomena that facilitate these connections. The proposed research topics include, but are not limited to:
- Regional development and the resilience of rural and urban systems;
- Rural–urban relations and the post-pandemic social-economic context;
- Management of urban–rural interfaces;
- Poverty and social risks;
- Social risks and the adjustment of rural and urban communities to climate change;
- The impact of environmental changes on the structure and dynamics of land cover;
- Land cover changes in peri-urban and ex-urban areas and their environmental effects;
- Disadvantaged and/or monofunctional areas;
- Rural–urban relations in border and/or cross-border areas;
- Changes in urban and rural functional zoning;
- Deindustrialisation and tertiarisation and the impact on urban and rural communities;
- Counter-urbanisation and city–village migration perspectives;
- Depopulation and its social-economic consequences;
- Suburbanisation, metropolisation and gentrification;
- The impact of the Russian–Ukrainian conflict on the system of human settlements in Romania.
Dr. Radu-Dănuț Săgeată
Dr. Tamás Hardi
Dr. Andreea-Loreta Cercleux
Dr. Ines Grigorescu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- rural–urban relations
- territorial development
- resilience
- poverty
- migrations
- functional areas
- metropolisation
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