Societal implication and challenges of demographic change – some introductory remarks

Černič-Mali, Barbara; Koch, Andreas; Koch, Madeleine

doi:10.2478/euco-2014-0001

Abstract

This introduction into the special issue of European Countryside describes the need to move from knowledge to action and from simplification to complexification in contemporary discourses about demographic change. While the first movement arguably refers to the contributions of this issue the latter is a plea towards more specification and differentiation when investigating and assessing phenomena of demographic change.

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