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Strategies for the long-term provision of services of general interest in the context of an aging and declining population: case studies in the Harz Mountains
Project
Project code: TI-LR-08-PID402
Contract period: 01.09.2010
- 31.12.2012
Purpose of research: Inventory & Assessment
The current debate on regional disparities in Germany, the differentiation of living conditions and changing provisions of public and private services of general interest focuses on peripheral depopulated areas. In these regions, many services of general interest were already reduced in the past. The population has thus to cope with deteriorating conditions of daily life, and both providers and users of infrastructures, shopping facilities as well as of social and cultural amenities bear comparatively higher costs. Yet long-term economic sustainability and accessibility of services will also become an issue in rural areas where socio-demographic changes and the resulting problems occur in a rather unspectacular way. The Harz Mountains are such a region.
Section overview
Subjects
- Agricultural Sociology