The 4th Rural Geographies Conference took place in Porto from 22 – 26 June 2026. More information can be found on the website.
The 3rd conference was organised by the Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen, from 23 -26 June 2023. The conference theme was Rural Geographies in Transition. Rural areas in Europe are under increasing and intersecting pressures and transitions. The landscapes, the actors, the uses, the challenges, and the ways in which the rural is produced and reproduced, are all changing rapidly. This brings forward new research questions and asks for new approaches, both in terms of theoretical perspectives and in terms of empirics, on topics such as population developments, socio-spatial inequalities, governance and policies, economic challenges, quality of life, smart villages, landscape transitions, rural entrepreneurship, agricultural transformations, rural housing, energy transitions and climate change adaptation. see for more information the conference site.
