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Policy impact assessment and evaluation How effective and efficient are instruments to strengthen rural areas and protect natural resources? Our research focuses on specific instruments – strategies,
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Governance and civic engagement For decades, rural areas have been undergoing structural change, which is associated with a variety of challenges for the people who live there. How can politics, admin
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Basic service provision Whether doctor's office, grocery stores or broadband: basic services are indispensable for everyday life. New solutions are needed to adapt services to changing needs and to ma
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Settlement development and spatial mobility Demographic and social change, increasing land use for settlements and transport, as well as changing patterns of residential and everyday mobility are key
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Social structure and social inclusion More than half of the population residing in Germany lives in rural areas. Who are these people and how do they live? How do social, economic and demographic chan
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cross-sectional groups As a permanent platform, the cross-sectional groups represent the direct link between the different work areas of the institute. Here, staff members from different disciplines w
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Monitoring, indicators, regional analyses In order to put discussions about rural areas and their development on a sound empirical basis, differentiated data is needed. Our monitoring of rural areas c
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Dr. Maria E. Pierce Institute of Baltic Sea Fisheries Alter Hafen Süd 2 18069 Rostock Telephone +49 381 66099 111 Fax +49 381 66099 199 Email maria.pierce@thuenen.de Fields of Activity Development of
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Dr. Jarmila Curtiss Institute of Farm Economics Bundesallee 63 38116 Braunschweig Telephone +49 531 2570 1513 Fax +49 531 596 5199 Email jarmila.curtiss@thuenen.de Fields of Activity EU Agricultural P
