3. Costs of De-ruralisation Process
We have to admit that, nowadays, the complexity of rural life problems was underestimated, the same way the
interdependencies between the two habitat types, as well as those between the economic policy and the practical
actions were underestimated, so that the village was kept under a deep crisis. In the lack of a systematic approach
and without an analysis of the whole package of measures, a series of measures directed to villages failed. We are
now observing that village communities, particularly in developed countries, are devastated by domestic industrial
activities, by small rural crafts, they are depleted of young human resources, further deepening the issue of jobs
crisis and the one of manifest and latent unemployment, as well as the issue of demographic ageing and demoeconomic
ageing.