Hinterland trans-national concepts and regional foresight
WP4 ensures the embedment of the other WPs in the present situation of strategy and policy in rural development. A collection
and selection of recent and relevant activities in this field will be examined and evaluated due to the intermediate and
final results in WP1 - 3, showing different grades of correspondence to the found characters of decline, to types of
Hinterlands, to potentials and profiles and to rural-urban-linkages. Depending on the results, different demands and needs
for modified plan-ning and funding in Hinterland regions will be defined by the PP and discussed regionally as well as
trans-nationally. At least overall and individual recommendations for a better respecting of decline characters will be the
result, leading to improved or new strategies, policies and other trans-national activities for a more decline oriented rural
development. It seems useful to combine the present approaches to rural development in Hinterlands with the found characters
of decline and Hinterland types to a regional foresight. Different future models could be discussed, showing the necessity
to keep involved in the management of decline processes and producing answers for the question what would be if decline
continues on certain levels
Results of WP 4
