Situation analysis with rural settlement types and population in regional parks of coastal Lithuania: how to increase the territory' attractiveness

Bučienė, Angelija; Verkulevičiūtė-Kriukienė, Daiva; Vasiliauskienė, Erika

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Situation analysis with rural settlement types and population in regional parks of coastal Lithuania: how to increase the territory' attractiveness

Type of publication

Tezės kitame recenzuojamame leidinyje / Theses in other peer-reviewed publication (T1e)

Type of document

type::text::conference output::conference proceedings::conference paper

Author(s)

Author	Affiliation
Bučienė, Angelija	Socialinės geografijos ir turizmo katedra / Department of Social Geography and Tourism
Verkulevičiūtė-Kriukienė, Daiva	Vadybos ir ekonomikos katedra
Vasiliauskienė, Erika	Socialinės geografijos ir turizmo katedra / Department of Social Geography and Tourism

Title

Situation analysis with rural settlement types and population in regional parks of coastal Lithuania: how to increase the territory' attractiveness

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Date Issued

Date
2021

Extent

p. 57-60

Is part of

Social innovations for sustainable regional development : abstracts of reports of 17 international conference organized by Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at Klaipėda University : 28- 29 of April, Klaipėda, 2021. Klaipėda : Klaipėdos universiteto leidykla, 2021. ISBN 9786091841159.

Research Area

Field of Science

Keywords (en)

Abstract (en)

The situation with rural settlements (villages) and rural population number in three Regional parks of the coastal Lithuania has been studied from 2001 to 2019. The analysis of statistical data obtained from the local administrators, National Statistics and conducted social research (two semi-structured interviews) has shown, that depopulation continues to grow in the small size of villages, while much better situation is observed in the villages of medium and large size mostly due to the better social infrastructure in two of three studied Regional parks. Contrary, the rural population in the third, Pajūris Regional park has increased 3 times during the observational period due to the nearness of Palanga and Klaipėda towns and the Baltic Sea coast. Among the attempts to increase the attractiveness of Regional park‘s territory, new educational routes and ecotourism can be proposed.