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Organisers

Local organising committee

  • Miķelis Grīviņš – Rīga Stradiņš University, Latvia
  • Ilze Mileiko – Rīga Stradiņš University, Latvia
  • Dina Bite – Rīga Stradiņš University, Latvia
  • Anda Ādamsone-Fiskoviča – Baltic Studies Centre, Latvia
  • Lāsma Šķestere – Rīga Stradiņš University, Latvia
  • Baiba Rivža – Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies, Latvia
  • Pēteris Lakovskis – Institute of Agricultural Resources and Economics, Latvia
  • Laura Bužinska – Rīga Stradiņš University, Latvia

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Scientific committee

  • Jessica Duncan - Chair of Scientific Committee,Rural Sociology Group, School of Social Sciences, Wageningen University, The Netherlands  
  • Fatmanil Done - ESRS Executive Committee member, Department of Sociology and Social Work, Public University of Navarre (UPNA), Spain  
  • Seema Arora-Jonsson - Department of Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden  
  • Rita Calvario - Centre for Social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra, Portugal  
  • Emily Duncan - Department of Sociology and Social Studies, University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada  
  • Petr Jehlička - Department of Ecological Anthropology, Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences / Department of Local and Regional Studies, Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czechia  
  • Loukia-Maria Fratsea - Researcher, Department of Geography, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece  
  • Ana Moragues Faus - School of Economics, University of Barcelona, Spain

European Society for Rural Sociology

The European Society for Rural Sociology (ESRS) was founded in 1957.

Today, ESRS is the leading European association for scientists involved in the study of agriculture and fisheries, food production and consumption, rural development and change, rurality and cultural heritage, equality and inequal ity in rural society, and nature and environmental care. The membership in the ESRS is open to people in- and outside Europe who are interested in the study of rural questions.

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The objectives of ESRS

  • To stimulate and promote the development of rural sociology
  • To foster closer relations between rural sociologists, other social scientists, and practitioners with an interest in agricultural development, rural society and the environment
  • To promote international co-operation and the exchange of information and experience in the field of rural sociological research
  • To provide a forum in Europe for the discussion of issues related to rural change
  • To encourage the training of young social scientists within an international framework