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WORKING GROUPS
Furher exploration of the five main congress themes
| theme 1: Mobilities and stabilities in rural space |
| 1.1 |
The Changing Face of Rural Areas: Labour Immigration to the Countryside |
| 1.2 |
Geographic Mobility and its Impacts on Rural Community Structure and Change |
| 1.3 |
Globalization and Rural Europe: Social Economic and Cultural Impacts |
| 1.4 |
(Un) Real Rural? - Reinventing Rural Areas in Europe through Environmental Protection, Nature Conservation and Tourism |
| 1.5 |
Rural-Urban Relationships: Mobilities and Stabilities of the Rural-Urban Fringe |
| 1.6 |
Tourism in a Rural Setting: Opportunities and Challenges |
| 1.7 |
Multifunctional Rural Landscapes: Between the Local and the Global, Between the Social and the Natural |
| 1.8 |
Reframing and Reconfiguring Agricultural, Rural and Food Polices |
| 1.9 |
Regional Differentiation and the Distribution of Rural Welfare |
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| theme 2: The rural bites back |
| 2.1 |
Being in the Rural: Affordances, Affects and the 'Nature of Rurality' |
| 2.2 |
The Global Economic Crisis: Prospects for Business Clusters and Industrial Districts in Rural Areas |
| 2.3 |
The New Productivism: Agricultural Responses to Increasing Food and Energy Prices and Climate Change |
| 2.4 |
Gendered and Embodied Ruralities |
| 2.5 |
Govering the Local? Rural Power, Rural Needs and Rural Policy |
| 2.6 |
Conventionalisation? Organic Farmers Bite Back! |
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Local Food Networks, Power and Sustainability |
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| theme 3: Animal Farm |
| 3.1 |
Sustainable Hunting - a Socioeconomic Tool for Revitalising Rural Areas? |
| 3.2 |
Animal Policy and Law |
| 3.3 |
Equine Landscapes and the New Equine Industry |
| 3.4 |
Peoples' Ambivalence Towards Animal Farming: Where Modern Concerns
and Desires Collide |
| 3.5 |
Critter Countrysides |
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| theme 4: the sciences of the rural |
| 4.1 |
Rural Experts and Rural Expertise |
| 4.2 |
Rural Sociology: Knowledge for whom? |
| 4.3 |
Rural Challenges: Resilience, Learning and Adaption |
| 4.4 |
Social and Natural Science Collaboration in the (Re)Making of the Rural: Problems, Practices and Cultures |
| 4.5 |
Putting Rurality on the Map: GIS as an Analytical and Integrative Tool in Rural and Regional studies |
| 4.6 |
Identifying Diversified Values and Meanings of Agrobiodiversity |
| 4.7 |
Inventing Sustainable Agriculture? Alternative Agricultures, Agricultural Sciences and Social Movements |
| 4.8 |
Embeddeness of Rural Enterprises - Developing Integrative Conceptual Frameworks for Understanding Rural Innovation and Development |
| 4.9 |
How Can ICTs - Particularly Next Generation Broadband Access - Contribute to the Sciences of the Rural? |
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| theme 5: Sustainable Ruralities |
| 5.1 |
Towards Sustainable Forestry? Innovations for Institutional Adaption in Forest Policy and Management |
| 5.2 |
Rural Businesses and Sustainable Ruralities |
| 5.3 |
Temporary Organisations and Rural-Urban Relations: Can Long-term Sustainability Goals be Achieved Through Short-term Interventions? |
| 5.4 |
What is Culturally Sustainable Development? |
| 5.5 |
Is Rural Europe Really Old? Demographical Dynamics – Social Impacts |
| 5.6 |
Twenty Years On: Eastern European Countrysides in Processes of Change |
| 5.7 |
Sustainable Fishing Communities: Transformations, Contradictions and the Challenges for Governance |
| 5.8 |
Sustainable Ruralism |
For reference:
Call for Abstracts (printable version of all WGs) [pdf] 761K
Call for Abstracts flyer [pdf]
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Host Country
Finland
Host City
Vaasa in a nutshell
Location on the map
Weather in Vaasa
Pictures from Vaasa
Host Universities
University of Vaasa
Åbo Akademi,
Vasa
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