Michael Woods

Rural Geography (eBook, ePUB)

Processes, Responses and Experiences in Rural Restructuring

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'Remedies the often-underestimated dynamism of rural places and rural society by providing the much-needed synthesis of the European and North American literature on rural restructuring and globalization processes' - Patrick H Mooney, University of Kentucky. .

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: SAGE Publications
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781446240472
• Artikelnr.: 42155056

Autorenporträt

Michael Woods is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of Wales, Aberystwyth

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCING RURAL GEOGRAPHY
Defining the Rural
Understanding the Rural
PART TWO: PROCESSES OF RURAL RESTRUCTURING
Globalization, Modernity and the Rural World
Agricultural Change
The Changing Rural Economy
Social and Demographic Change
Changing Communities
Restructuring Rural Services
Environmental Change and Rural Areas
PART THREE: RESPONSES TO RURAL RESTRUCTURING
Rural Policy and the Response to Restructuring
Rural Development and Regeneration
Rural Governance
Selling the Countryside
Protecting the Countryside
Rural Conflicts
PART FOUR: EXPERIENCES OF RURAL RESTRUCTURING
Changing Rural Lifestyles
Living in the Countryside
Housing, Health and Crime
Growing up and Growing Old in the Countryside
Working in the Countryside
Hidden Rural Lifestyles
Poverty and Social Exclusion
Rurality, National Identity and Ethnicity
Alternative Rural Lifestyles
PART FIVE: CONCLUSION
Thinking again about the Rural