PART 1: CONTEXT // #1 New Challenges, Conflicts and Opportunities for Rural Spaces / Bohumil FRANTÁL, Stanislav MARTINÁT / K // #2 Magic of The Secret Garden’!: Acknowledging More-than-Representational Rurality /Keith HALFACREE/ 27 // PART 2: RENEWABLE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT IN RURAL AREAS // Its Phantoms, Publics and the Politics of Engagement: Populating the Rural Renewable Energy Landscape / Gordon WALKER / 28 // #4 Distributed Generation of Sustainable Energy as a Common Pool Resource: Social Acceptance of Smart (micro-)grid Configurations / Maarten WOLSINK / 36 // #5 Renewable Energy Technologies in European Landscapes - from Myths to (Adaptive) Management / Dan van der HORST / 48 // PART 3: MULTIFUNCTIONAL AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT // #6 Reassessing Agricultural Multifunctionality in the Context of Food Security, Climate Change and the New Land Use Debate / Damian MAYE / 60 // #7 Overcoming Stereotypes and Turning Diversity into Strength: Implications for Rural Policy in Europe / Thomas DAX / 72 // #8 Market Adaptations, Competitiveness and Diversification Trends of Post-Socialistic Farmers / Bohumil FRANTÁL, Stanislav MARTINÁT / 86 // PART 4: SUSTAINABLE RURAL TOURISM? // #9 The Sustainability of Rural Tourism in a Post-Carbon World / C. Michael HALL / 100 // #10 Tourism and Leisure - Rural Spaces, Old and New / Gordon CLARK /109 // #11 Selected Function-Space Aspects of Rural Tourism (Case of the Czech Republic) // / Josef KUNC, Ondřej PETR, Martin ŠAUER, Petr TONEV, Jiří VYSTOUPIL 119 // REFERENCES 132 // RESUMÉ 150 // AUTHORS 151 // INDEX 153