Entrepreneurship has become a dynamic field of research in the last two decades.
However,'rural entrepreneurship'has been largely overlooked. It seems therefore timely to …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the marketing actions developed for rural
tourism lodgings and the effect of these actions on lodgings' performance …

Rural areas have been modified during centuries of agriculture practice and, in the last
decades, of other economic activities like mineral extractions and processing industry …

Along with the well-documented transformations of rural areas in the last few decades, the
social views, representations and ways of describing rurality in western societies have also …

Tourism has an important role modifying rural communities in their environmental,
economic, social and cultural structures, processes and dynamics. In this context rural …

The aim of this chapter is to reflect on rural provenance food as cultural heritage, discussing
at the same time its contribution to promoting rural development and renewed rural-urban …

Shaping rural areas in Europe GeoJournal Library 107 Luís Silva Elisabete Figueiredo Editors
Shaping Rural Areas in Europe Perceptions and Outcomes on the Present and the Future Page …

As questões energéticas têm tido uma presença crescente no debate público. Perante
desafios sociais tão candentes como as alterações climáticas e a escassez de fontes de …

The objective of this study is to demonstrate the importance of the existing Ways of Saint
James in Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, in the northern interior of Portugal, and that being …

In many European regions, rural areas are facing major challenges in economic and social
terms, consequence of transformations in the role and meaning of agriculture. The loss of …