During the last 50 years, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has impacted the evolution
of European agricultural landscapes by driving changes in land use and farming practices …

This fourth edition of The Geography of Tourism and Recreation provides students with a
comprehensive introduction to the interrelationship between tourism, leisure and recreation …

The circumstances of contemporary rural tourism have complicated the orientation and
interests of stakeholders and transformed people's aesthetic judgment and negotiation on …

Land-use planning practice and policy are still lacking a landscape perspective that takes
into account landscape history integrated with land suitability. This article presents a method …

Context In recent years, rural landscapes have played an increasingly important role in the
fields of tourism, cultural heritage and ecology. Rural landscape research (RLR), which is …

The bourgeoning of e-commerce in the context of the information era has accelerated the
urbanization trend by broaching a new horizon of economic and industrial boosters for rural …

Only a few decades have passed since when in Italy spatial planning considered the
countryside as an indistinct “blank space” only deserving marginal attentions. At the same …

This article proposes an alternative policy development approach for territories
encompassing rural areas with small urban settlements or 'small places', which normally …

At present, there are limitations in the cognition of the elements of traditional village cul‑tural
landscapes, less excavation of the elements of production‑type cultural landscapes, little at …

Place names are a linguistic form that people attach to the landscape. Rural landscapes are
maybe one of the most refined cultural manifestations revealing a fundamental effort for …