Spatial Constraints of Slovenian Farms: What Does Urbanization Have to Do with It?

Nika Razpotnik Visković

doi:10.1515/euco-2017-0017

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Spatial Constraints of Slovenian Farms: What Does Urbanization Have to Do with It?

European Countryside

Volume 9 (2017): Issue 2 (June 2017)

By: Nika Razpotnik Visković

Open Access

|Jul 2017

Abstract

The spatial constraints of farms in Slovenia have never been systematically studied before; however, this is an important developmental aspect of agriculture, as stated by experts in spatial planning, agricultural economics, and geography. This article presents the concept of farms’ spatial constraints within settlements and their effect on farms’ development potential, proposes a methodological framework for measuring them, and reveals the relation between farms’ spatial constraints and urbanization.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/euco-2017-0017 | Journal eISSN: 1803-8417

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Language: English

Page range: 274 - 286

Published on: Jul 13, 2017

Published by: Mendel University in Brno

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Keywords:

spatial constraints of farms,

urbanization,

development potential of farms,

Related subjects:

Ecology,

© 2017 Nika Razpotnik Visković, published by Mendel University in Brno
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