Opportunities for sustainable development of rural settlement area of the Timok vineyards

Abstract

Space of the Timok vineyards with rural communities in its geospatial coverage has exceptional natural resources with a range of characteristics in terms of environmental, cultural and anthropogenic values. Regardless of the prominent potential, development restrictions in this area are numerous. Empirical research shows that over the past decade have survived numerous inherited and generated new problems of ecological and socio-economic status of rural settlements. The cumulative effect of these processes on the local level as advanced environmental degradation and negative habitation demographic trends, which is at the regional and national level deeper and more complex development problems.