Marginal Rural Spaces and Landscapes

The book focuses attention on marginal areas and the social and economic roots of their development problems. The importance of political, cultural and demographic conditions, including the compound effects of migration (especially long-term migration outflows), in the process of the perpetuation the underdevelopment of numerous territories on a local, regional and international scale is articulated in the book's analysis. The complicating interrelationships and relationships between these factors are also important, making it difficult to find and formulate appropriate policies to enable a development path out of the marginalising system. Attention is also drawn to the clear relationship between geographical and particularly communicational peripherality with marginalisation processes. The importance of transport accessibility in exacerbating marginalisation processes is also addressed in this context. Another theme worth highlighting are the dynamics playing out in rural regions and areas connected with national borders. Numerous studies show that economic, political, and socio-cultural marginalisation is especially common and critical for future development in these types of areas.