Rural Population Growth in Sweden in the 1990s: Unexpected Reality or Spatial-Statistical Chimera

This article addresses the matter of “urban spillover” in rural population development, i.e. how urban localities tend to push a ring of diffuse urban growth outwards as they expand in area. The data

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Is There a Hidden Potential for Rural Population Growth in Sweden?

This paper examines whether a hidden potential for rural population growth can be found in Sweden through investigating survey data of people expressing their desire to move to rural areas, and regist

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Understanding Rural Change – Demography as a Key to the Future

The aim of this paper is to exploit demographic change in rural areas as a means to forecast their possible economic and social futures. The peripheral rural areas of Europe will experience problems o

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