ABSTRACT
Rural economies continue to be places of social and economic change, both in the most accessible and most remote regions of Europe. Although technology and human mobilities are constantly narrowing the gap between urban centres and remote rural areas, the ‘periphery’ continues to present distinct challenges for rural policy. In this context, this chapter examines the economic potential associated with rural in-migration and takes a dynamic networks approach to understanding the extent to which the most peripheral rural areas can benefit from an emergent trend of ‘commercial counterurbanisation’.
