Why
Eururalis?
- Europe's rural areas could witness massive and rapid changes
affecting Profit, People, Planet (3P) and Land-use
- Major threats should be avoided and opportunities grasped.
An anticipative and coordinated policy should be based upon
facts, figures and insights in relationship
- The future of European regions depends to a large extent
on global driving forces such as global demography, technological
developments and macro economic growth. Eururalis links
these global drivers with EU regions
Some examples of policy issues in rural areas:
- What are the effects of the new members that joined the
EU on income, employment or land-use in existing and new
member states?
- How will an ambitious EU policy on biofuels change the
landscape?
- What impact has a changing Common Agricultural Policy
on European land-use?
- Can we maintain vital rural areas if agriculture modernizes
and people move to cities?
- How will biodiversity respond to urbanization, land use
change or climate change?
- Can we secure our own food supply for Europe's population?
- Is a free global market a blessing or a disaster for sustainability?
What does Eururalis offer?
- A conceptual framework and powerful toolbox with data
and models to support interactive use
- Facts and figures for the last decades and especially
coming decades towards 2030 in 10 years timesteps for the
EU 27 countries.
- Maps and graphs indicating a variety of possible futures for Europe,
with four plausible main scenarios as starting points.
- The impact on People, Planet, Profit and Land-use indicators.
- Insight in threats and opportunities for rural areas and
insight in the impact of strategic policy options.
- Insight in trade off’s between regions, between
indicators and to other continents
- Fuel to support discussions, no blueprint for decisions.
For whom is Eururalis?
- Policy makers
- Committed groups or individuals
- Colleague scientists
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