Zur Definition des Begriffes Sozialbrache

Abstract: Changes in the extent of agricultural land have frequently attracted the interest of geographers, and the appreciable number of investigations deserted settlements of the Middle Ages are well known. Whilst the term desertion has, however, mostly been linked up with periods of crises, and in particular population decline, a reduction in land used for agriculture is taking place here and there before our very eyes, despite population increase and a rise in the standard of living and despite the fact that in Western Germany the influx of expellees and refugees with an agricultural background would cause one to expect the very opposite development. Since this process, which is largely of a transitional character, is first of all due to social conditions, W. Hartke has coined the term Sozial brache (social fallow) to describe it. The whole host of problems connected with this phenomenon has in the meantime been investigated by many agricultural scientists, in particular agricultural eco.... https://www.erdkunde.uni-bonn.de/article/view/1244

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• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

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• Bibliographic citation: Zur Definition des Begriffes Sozialbrache ; volume:12 ; number:3 ; year:1958 ; Erdkunde ; 12, Heft 3 (1958)

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• Creator: Ruppert, Karl

Further information

• DOI: 10.3112/erdkunde.1958.03.06
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2410291228095.996867646794
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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