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Csurgó Bernadett [et al.]
Rural goods and services and their role in improving rural-urban relationship

CONTENTS, PREFACE

Tartalom

Preface

Bernadett Csurgó - Imre Kovách - Luca Kristóf - Boldizsár Megyesi - Ildikó Nagy: Rural Goods and Services in the Budapest agglomeration and the Lake Balaton region

1. Introduction
2. Overview of the RGS and its providers
3. RGS as a new economy
4. RGS providers in a new economy
5. Conclusion
List of tablesImre Kovách - Luca Kristóf - Eszter Kelemen - Boldizsár Megyesi - Ildikó Nagy: Possible improvements of rural - urban partnership Budapest agglomeration and Lake Balaton region 1. Introduction
2. Current perspectives on rural/urban relationships in the metropolitan and tourism area
3. New perspectives on the rural-urban partnerships in the M and T area (with the rural and urban perspectives)
4. Conclusions
References
List of interviewees

Preface

The changing nature of rural areas has many different aspects from which traditional and new types of Rural Goods and Services (RGS) and the relationship between rural and urban areas being materialized through the provision of RGS are two of the most important ones. This volume presents two working papers of an international research project called RURBAN (Building New Relationships in Rural Areas Under Urban Pressure) in order to clarify the recent situation and tendencies of RGS and rural-urban relations in Hungary.

The overall aim of the RURBAN research project was to help actors in rural areas to provide Rural Goods and Services related to the landscape and to get compensation payments by new relationships with the urban society. During the three years long research period (2002-2005) research teams from Finland, France, Hungary, Spain and The Netherlands investigated two reserach areas in each country - a metropolitan and a tourist rural area - in order to discover the interacting actors such as consumers, intermediate actors and producers, and the rural goods and services consumed, mediated and provided by them.

The following studies can be regarded as the synthesis of the Hungarian research findings. The first study aims at analysing the capacity of producers to produce RGS and identifying recent trends in the supply of RGS, while the second one presents current characteristics and possible improvements of rural and urban relationships.