Here are listed all working groups under the four themes; 1) Politics, governance, local capacities, 2) Infrastructure and services, 3) Demography and mobility and 4) Agriculture, forestry and fisheries.
Click on the title of the working group to get to the abstract and a list of all organisers.
Please note that there is also a working group for PhD students early in their studies that cuts across the four themes.
Please send your abstract to the main working group convener and info@ruralities.org before January the 1st 2018
Theme 1 – Politics, governance, local capacities
| Main convener | Title |
| Egon Noe
Danish Centre for Rural Research, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark enoe@sam.sdu.dk |
1.1 Changing rural areas: what about the church? |
| Annie McKee,
The James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen,
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1.2 Local assets, local decisions, and community resilience |
| Gro Marit Grimsrud,
Uni Research Rokkan centre, Bergen, Norway,
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1.5 Small towns in rural regions |
| Lise Lyck, Copenhagen Business School lly.marktg@cbs.dk
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1.6 Living conditions in Nordic rural areas in relation to economic and political development in the Nordic countries
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Theme 2: Infrastructure and services
| Main convener | Title |
| Katja Rinne-Koski,
University of Helsinki Ruralia Institute, Finland
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2.1 Novel Approaches to Service Provision in Sparse Rural Areas |
| Richard Ferguson,
Rural Entrepreneurship Group, Department of Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences,
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2.3 Contexts of entrepreneurship in Changing Rural Infrastructure and Services |
| Sulevi Riukulehto,
University of Helsinki Ruralia Institute, Finland
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2.4 Culturally sustainable repair of particular buildings: success stories from rural areas |
| Mai Camilla Munkejord,
Uni Research Rokkan Centre & Arctic University of Norway
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2.5 Ageing in the rural North
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Theme 3: Demograhy and mobility
| Main convener | Titel |
| Linda Lundmark
Department of Geography and Economic History, Umeå University, Sweden
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3.1 Micro-urbanisation in rural and sparsely populated areas |
| Karin Topsøe Larsen
Centre for Regional and Tourism Research
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3.2 The role of multi-local identities and relations for rural development |
| Helene Pristed Nielsen
Aalborg University, Denmark,
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3.3 Dynamics of gender, place and population flows in Nordic rural areas |
| Tialda Haartsen, University of Groningen, Groningen-The Netherlands.
t.haartsen@rug.nl |
3.5 Young people and education institutions in peripheral areas |
| Tiina Sotkasira
University of Eastern Finland
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3.6 International migration, mobility and rural regions |
Theme 4: Agriculture, forestry and fisheries
| Main convener | Titel |
| Elias Andersson, Department of forest resource management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden. gun.lidestav@slu.se
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4.1 Global forests and local ruralities – challenging traditional conceptions of forestry and exploring innovative promises of bio economy
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| Cecilia Waldenström, Dept. of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Cecilia.waldenstrom@slu.se
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4.2 Agrarian change in the Nordic countries
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| Michael Kull & Karen Refsgaard, Nordregio, michael.kull@nordregio.se
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4.3 Overcoming institutional constraints inhibiting the transition towards a ‘new’ bio economy. Enhancing governance and policy frameworks |
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