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Economy, society, and environment comprise the three main dimensions of sustainable development but too often they are considered separately. This book, by comparison, examines the interaction of the three dimensions in the context of rural systems, embracing a wide range of topics, including globalisation and reregulation in sustainable food production, conservation and sustainability, the development of sustainable rural communities, and sustainable rural-urban interaction. An international team of geographers, drawn from the International Geographical Union's Commission on The Sustainability of Rural Systems, summarises the basis of unsustainable rural development in these topics, the remedial policies being pursued, and their own evaluations of the policies. Rather than deal just with generalisations, their analyses are illustrated by detailed case studies drawn from a variety of rural systems in both developed and developing countries.

Preface

xi

List of Contributors

xiii

Introduction

1

(12)

C. Cocklin

I. Bowler

C. Bryant

Change and transition in the countryside

1

(2)

Rural systems and sustainability

3

(3)

Confronting the challenge

6

(7)

Part I: Interpreting sustainability

Developing indicators of `sustainability'

13

(22)

W. Smith

Introduction

13

(1)

Why is it so hard to establish good indicators?

14

(2)

Components of sustainability

16

(3)

Indicators and decision making for sustainability

19

(2)

Collecting data for indicators of sustainability

21

(1)

Looking for frameworks for indicators

22

(3)

From concept to action on sustainability

25

(1)

A critical review

26

(3)

Human needs, social capital and science

29

(2)

Conclusion

31

(4)

Nature, society and sustainability

35

(24)

G. M. Robinson

Introduction

35

(1)

Defining sustainable development

36

(4)

Sustainability, nature and development

40

(2)

Malthus, Marx and sustainability

42

(2)

`Green' movements and sustainability

44

(5)

Environmental `citizenship' and sustainable rural development: a case study of Canada's Atlantic Coastal Action Programme

49

(4)

Conclusion

53

(6)

The `wild', the market and the native: indigenous issues in wildlife utilisation and management

59

(22)

M. Langton

Introduction

59

(1)

A new global market: the `wild', the native and the market

60

(1)

The role of indigenous people in biodiversity conservation

61

(3)

Arguments about indigenous use of wildlife and sustainability

64

(3)

Reconceptualising indigenous relationships with the natural world

67

(6)

Indigenous responses to the pressures of development

73

(2)

Recognition of traditional resource rights and sustainability

75

(3)

Conclusion

78

(3)

Part II: Globalisation, restructuring and sustainability

Globalisation, food regimes and rural networks

81

(16)

R. Le Heron

Introduction

81

(1)

Food regimes, food chains and networking

82

(3)

Situated networking and learning challenges: New Zealand examples

85

(7)

Conclusion

92

(5)

Restructuring, regulation and sustainability

97

(26)

N. Lewis

W. Moran

C. Cocklin

Introduction

97

(1)

Regulation

98

(2)

Re-regulation and restructuring

100

(2)

Resiting and rescaling of regulation

102

(2)

Restructuring and sustainability

104

(3)

Sustainability and restructuring: beyond the environmental impulse

107

(1)

`Institutional thickness' and social sustainability

108

(1)

Governance

109

(1)

Governance and sustainability in the New Zealand wine industry

110

(5)

Conclusion

115

(8)

Enterprises and commodity chains

123

(24)

M. Troughton

Introduction

123

(1)

From subsistence to commercial agriculture

124

(6)

The development of agribusiness

130

(7)

Responses and alternatives

137

(4)

Conclusion: the question of sustainability

141

(6)

Part III: Environmental imperatives

Conservation and sustainability

147

(22)

M. Tilzey

Introduction

147

(1)

Principles and concepts

147

(3)

The dynamics of conservation in the modern era

150

(2)

The preservationist phase

152

(5)

The regulatory phase

157

(2)

Post-materialist and sustainability phases

159

(7)

Conclusion

166

(3)

Sustainable farming systems

169

(20)

I. Bowler

Introduction

169

(2)

The limits to sustainable development in productivist agriculture

171

(3)

Emergent features of sustainable agriculture?

174

(6)

Developing sustainable farming systems

180

(3)

Conclusion

183

(6)

Planning for sustainable rural land use systems

189

(22)

H. van Lier

Introduction

189

(1)

Land-use planning and sustainability

189

(2)

The need for land-use planning

191

(4)

Spatial concepts

195

(5)

An elaborated example of the ecological network

200

(7)

Conclusion

207

(4)

Part IV: Rurality, community and development

Rural population and services

211

(14)

A. Joseph

Introduction

211

(1)

Long cycles of change

212

(2)

Short cycles of change

214

(2)

The rural elderly in the open society

216

(2)

Conclusion: prospects for the sustainability of rural communities and lifestyles

218

(7)

Sustainable rural communities and rural development

225

(22)

R. Epps

Introduction

225

(3)

Globalisation, technological change and rural communities

228

(1)

The circumstances facing towns and regional centres

229

(2)

Enhancing the sustainability of rural communities: economic growth theory

231

(1)

Theories of rural and regional economic growth

232

(1)

Government policy approaches to stimulating rural economies

233

(5)

Ecological theory and the stability of rural businesses

238

(1)

Linkages to the urban-industrial complex

239

(2)

Urban-rural migration

241

(1)

New firm establishment

241

(1)

Conclusion

242

(5)

Urban and rural interactions and rural community renewal

247

(24)

C. Bryant

Introduction

247

(1)

An actor-based framework for analysing rural community sustainability

248

(1)

Urban and rural interactions

249

(5)

Sustainable communities

254

(2)

Rural community renewal and sustainability

256

(9)

Conclusion

265

(6)

Conclusion

271

(4)

C. Bryant

I. Bowler

C. Cocklin

Index

275

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