Reshaping the Countryside : Perceptions and Processes of Rural Change

by Nigel Walford; John Everitt; Darrell Napton

• ISBN13: 9780851993430
• ISBN10: 0851993435
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-08-05
• Publisher: Cab Intl

Summary

This book is a collection of papers providing comparative and contrasting analyses of the changing characteristics of the countryside within the developed countryside of the UK, USA and Canada. Reshaping the Countrysideis an exploration of the issues of continuity and change associated with the operation of demographic, socio-economic and political processes as they impact upon and reshape the countryside.

Table of Contents

Contributors

Preface

Continuity and Change in the Developed Countryside

New Countrysides

Prelude to Modernity: an Evaluation of the National Farm Survey of England and Wales, 1941-43

Geographical Transition from Productivism to Postproductivism: Agricultural Production in England and Wales 1950s to 1990s

Moralising Nature?: The National Rivers Authority and New Moral Imperatives for the Rural Environment

Farmer Adjustments to Tobacco Policy in Southwest

Socio-Economic Transformations

A New Space or Spatial Effacement? Alternative Futures for the Post-productivist Countryside

'Country Living': Rural Non-farm Population Growth in the Coastal Plain Region of North Carolina

Living in the Rural-Urban Fringe: Toward an Understanding of Life and Scale

Cluster Analysis of the Non-metropolitan Poor

Deindustrialisation and Rural Economic Restructuring in Southern West Virginia

'Enabling' Technology for Disabled People: Telecommunications for Community Care in Rural Britain

Production and Consumption in Rural Service Provision: The Case of the English Village Pub

Policy and Development Responses

Competitive Tensions in Community Tourism Development

Democratising Rural Development: Lessons from Recent European Union and UK Programmes

Community Readiness: Assumptions

Rural Economic Diversity: Adaptive Strategies for Minnesota's Boreal Forest Region

Human Capital and Rural Development: What are the Linkages?

References

Index

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