<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The authors argue that differentiation of various types of countryside is more important than to look for the definition of the rural against the urban. The paper is aimed at a typology of the Moravian countryside. Based on multifunctional (both hard and soft) data, Moravian micro-regions were divided into four categories – progressive, deficit and suburban countryside and predominantly urban micro-regions. Each of the categories has its own characteristics, threats, and needs. The authors stress that the approach of regional politics and both European and national subsidies have to take into account different categories of rural micro-regions. However, particular decisions have to be made in the intersection of the lowest regional level and the bottom-up approach expressed by community lead local development.</p></abstract>

The authors argue that differentiation of various types of countryside is more important than to look for the definition of the rural against the urban. The paper is aimed at a typology of the Moravian countryside. Based on multifunctional (both hard and soft) data, Moravian micro-regions were divided into four categories – progressive, deficit and suburban countryside and predominantly urban micro-regions. Each of the categories has its own characteristics, threats, and needs. The authors stress that the approach of regional politics and both European and national subsidies have to take into account different categories of rural micro-regions. However, particular decisions have to be made in the intersection of the lowest regional level and the bottom-up approach expressed by community lead local development.

Differentiation and Typology of the Moravian Countryside

Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic

Department of Applied and Landscape Ecology, Faculty of AgriSciences

European Countryside

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The authors argue that differentiation of various types of countryside is more important than to look for the definition of the rural against the urban. The...

Differentiation and Typology of the Moravian Countryside

Published Online: Apr 04, 2018

Page range: 127 - 140

Received: Aug 23, 2017

Accepted: Feb 15, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/euco-2018-0008

Keywords
countryside, rural typology, Moravia

© 2018 Kateřina Stonawská et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Differentiation and Typology of the Moravian Countryside

Published Online: Apr 04, 2018

Page range: 127 - 140

Received: Aug 23, 2017

Accepted: Feb 15, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/euco-2018-0008

Keywordscountryside, rural typology, Moravia

© 2018 Kateřina Stonawská et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
countryside, rural typology, Moravia