Linking sustainable practices throughout Europe
ECOVAST (European Council for the Village and Small Town)
Rural topic(s): (Agri)-tourism and rural heritage, Advocacy on food and rural policies
City: Tenterden,
Country: United Kingdom
Web site: http://www.ecovast.org
ECOVAST was created to further the well-being of rural communities, and the safeguarding of the rural heritage, throughout Europe. Its formal aims are: to foster the economic, social and cultural vitality and the administrative identity of rural communities throughout Europe; and to safeguard, and to promote the sensitive and imaginative renewal of, the built and natural environments of such communities
Scale of intervention : European
Keywords: landscape preservation, cultural heritage, rural heritage, locally-based economy, small towns
Places: Europe, United-Kingdom
Actors: network for the exchange of experience, association
Methods: consulting/expertise, prospective studies, advocacy