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Apr 24, 2021 · Municipalities in Finland are responsible for organizing local public health, social, educational and cultural services and can decide independently how to produce services for their citizens (Kröger, 2011). Small rural municipalities face financial difficulties in fulfilling their responsibilities for functional and equal basic services.
Jan 25, 2021 · According to empirical studies, municipal mergers have not delivered the expected savings on municipal spending. Vartiainen (Citation 2015) and Saarimaa and Tukiainen (Citation 2018) compared changes in the expenditures of merged municipalities and non-merged comparable municipalities and could find no evidence of cost savings with municipal ...
- Pekka Valkama, Lasse Oulasvirta
- 2021
Jan 1, 2013 · The 2009 Census shows that approximately 35 % of Finnish people reside in rural areas, most of them in rural areas close to cities. In these areas, population have been rapidly increasing, but in remote areas they are steadily decreasing.
- Pilvi Hämeenaho
- pilvi.hameenaho@jyu.fi
- 2013
Jan 1, 2023 · ABSTRACT. Depopulation, commonly labelled as shrinkage, of rural areas can lead to a self-reinforcing vicious cycle of. decreased regional vitality. However, some regions have been able to adapt ...
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• In Finland, almost 24,000 farms stopped operating between 2005-20195 - there were 70,620 farms in 2005 and only 46,716 in 2019 (EUROSTAT 2020 & Luonnonvarakeskus 2020). • Finland and Norway witnessed the largest decrease of biobased jobs in the Nordic Region in 2009-2017 (Refsgaard et al. 2020).
Download scientific diagram | 1 Number of cities and other municipalities in Finland 1917-2009 (Source: Association of Finnish Local and Regional Authorities) from publication: Making the Climate ...
Jan 1, 2023 · Moreover, according to recent figures from Statistics Finland, more than half of the Finnish municipalities belonging to this group are growing in terms of population. In other words, at least in Finland, rural communities that are located close to a city are more likely growing than shrinking in terms of their population.
