Urban areas are more likely to supply a high level of public services, whereas rural areas are often good at providing ecosystem services and therefore supply society with ener-gy resources, food and offer recreation, landscape and nature → balanced approach in the urban-rural-relationship to the fair use and management of rural resources → Sustain-able spatial development must consider compensating tradeoffs between these areas by using benefit/support mechanisms in the regions

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