Rural Change and Sustainability : Agriculture, the Environment and Communities

by Stephen J. Essex; Andrew W. Gilg; Richard B. Yarwood; John Smithers; Randall Wilson

• ISBN13: 9780851990828
• ISBN10: 0851990827
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-01-12
• Publisher: Cab Intl

Summary

This book draws upon selected, revised and edited papers from a conference of rural geographers from the UK, USA and Canada, held at the Universities of Plymouth and Exeter. It focuses on rural regions, which are facing conflicting demands, pressures and challenges, which themselves have far-reaching implications for rural space and society. Themes that occur throughout the book include agricultural change, environmental issues, rural communities, governance and globalization, and rural responses to these.

Table of Contents

Contributors	vii
Preface	ix
Rural change and sustainability: key themes	1	(12)
Stephen Essex
Andrew Gilg
Richard Yarwood
Agricultural Responses
Fordism rampant: the model and reality, as applied to production, processing and distribution in the North American agro-food system	13	(15)
Michael Troughton
Feedlot growth in southern Alberta: a neo-Fordist interpretation	28	(20)
Ian MacLachlan
People and hogs: agricultural restructuring and the contested countryside in agro-Manitoba	48	(20)
Douglas Ramsey
John Everitt
Lyndenn Behm
Global markets, local foods: the paradoxes of aquaculture	68	(17)
Joan Marshall
Alternative or conventional? An examination of specialist livestock production systems in the Scottish-English borders	85	(22)
Brian Ilbery
Damian Maye
Agritourism and the selling of local food production, family and rural American traditions to maintain family farming heritage	107	(15)
Deborah Che
Gregory Veeck
Ann Veeck
Re-imaging agriculture: making the case for farming at the agricultural show	122	(13)
Lewis Holloway
Environmental Issues
Stewardship, `proper' farming and environmental gain: contrasting experiences of agri-environmental schemes in Canada and the EU	135	(16)
Guy M. Robinson
Stemming the urban tide: policy and attitudinal changes for saving the Canadian countryside	151	(18)
Hugh J. Gayler
Vulnerability and sustainability concerns for the US High Plains	169	(16)
Lisa M. Butler Harrington
Environmental ghost towns	185	(14)
Chris Mayda
Communities
Interpreting family farm change and the agricultural importance of rural communities: evidence from Ontario, Canada	199	(16)
John Smithers
Engagement with the land: redemption of the rural residence fantasy?	215	(15)
Kirsten Valentine Cadieux
Mammoth Cave National Park and rural economic development	230	(14)
Katie Algeo
Assessing variation in rural America's housing stock: case studies from growing and declining areas	244	(21)
Holly R. Barcus
The geography of housing needs of low income persons in rural Canada	265	(16)
David Bruce
Change in rural North Carolina: the new Latino presence	281	(14)
Owen J. Furuseth
Governance
Finding the `region' in rural regional governance	295	(14)
Ann K. Deakin
Corporate-community relations in the tourism sector: a stakeholder perspective	309	(17)
Alison M. Gill
Peter W. Williams
Resource town transition: debates after closure	326	(17)
Greg Halseth
Narratives of community-based resource management in the American West	343	(15)
Randall K. Wilson
Youth, partnerships and participation? Action research as a methodological approach	358	(15)
Christine Corcoran
Conclusions	373
John Smithers
Randall K. Wilson