DOI: 10.19830/j.upi.2022.749
Spatial-Temporal Measurement, Policy Response and Experience Enlightenment of Shrinking Rural Regions in Europe
ZHENG Bohong, TIAN Fangzhou
Keywords:
Shrinking Village; Spatial-Temporal Measurement; Policy Response; Evidencebased Governance; Europe
Abstract:
By sorting out the research reports and policy reports on the shrinkage of rural areas in Europe, this paper combs the principles and methods of the research on the shrinkage of rural areas in Europe in terms of concept definition, driving mechanism, measurement analysis and type definition, and refines the experience and strategies in the process of policy intervention and planning governance. On this basis, this paper puts forward beneficial enlightenment for the measurement analysis, governance research and planning strategy of rural shrinkage in the current land space planning: (1) clarifying the similarities and differences between the concepts of “rural shrinkage”and “rural hollowing” in different contexts of China and Europe, and then dialectically learning from their experience and practices; (2) the governance of rural shrinkage is a long-term and complex challenge process, which requires the establishment of evidencebased governance principles; (3) establishing shrinkage measures and analysis methods under different space-time scales, and clarify the mechanism and type differences behind the shrinkage process; (4) building a multi-scale and multi-level growth shrinkage scenario planning, exploring the evolution law of urban and rural population growth and shrinkage, and providing smart strategies and governance paths tailored to local conditions for rural planning facing growth and shrinking scenarios.