Unexceptionally all metropolitan areas throughout the world are surrounded by peri-urban
areas that are neither urban nor rural in the conventional sense. Peri-urban areas are …

Agriculture in metropolitan peri-urban areas is influenced by structural changes associated
with increased input costs, an aging farming population, difficulty in retaining labour, and …

Peri-urbanisation is a dynamic process consisting primarily of the expansion of artificial
areas into natural, semi-natural, and agricultural areas. This process reduces peri-urban …

Urban and agricultural communities are interdependent but often differ on approaches for
improving water quality impaired by nutrient runoff waterbodies worldwide. Current water …

Peri-urban areas display the common trait of ambiguity, in spite their considerable variety in
terms of origins, definitions, and extent. Rather than the traditional dichotomy of rural and …

Agriculture is a very important sector of the economy that has a great influence on rural
areas. Almost sixty years of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in the European Union …

Abstract Post World War II suburban growth in Canada and the US has created concern over
the long-term availability of farmland to meet food production needs. Subsequent efforts to …

Albeit, urban encroachment to peri-urban areas is a global phenomenon, dimensions of
such peri-urban growth vary depending on the context. There little evidence exists in the …

However, competing demands for the land continue to increase as populations grow and
become ever more complex. Land-use competition demands that we pay attention and …

Counterurbanization scholarship in Canada is dominated by micro-scale case studies, most
recently conducted in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador (NL). In this article, a …