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This introduction into the special issue of European Countryside describes the need to move from knowledge to action and from simplification to complexification in contemporary discourses about demographic change. While the first movement arguably refers to the contributions of this issue the latter is a plea towards more specification and differentiation when investigating and assessing phenomena of demographic change.

Societal implication and challenges of demographic change – some introductory remarks

Univ.dipl.ekon. Barbara Černič Maly, Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia Ljubljana, TrnovskiPristan 2, Slovenia

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Andreas Koch, Department of Geography and Geology, University of Salzburg, Hellbrunnerstrasse 34, 5020 Salzburg, Austria

MSc. Madeleine Koch, Department of Geography and Geology, University of Salzburg, Hellbrunnerstrasse 34,5020 Salzburg, Austria

European Countryside

This introduction into the special issue of European Countryside describes the need to move from knowledge to action and from simplification to...

Societal implication and challenges of demographic change – some introductory remarks

Published Online: Feb 18, 2014

Page range: 1 - 8

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/euco-2014-0001

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