The next rural economies : constructing rural place in global economies /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2010.
• Subjects: Rural development.; Rural population.; Rural-urban relations.; Rural tourism.; New business enterprises.; Policy and Planning.; Demography.; Community Participation and Development, (New March 2000); Rural Development, (New March 2000); Community action.; Economic development.; Globalization.; Government policy.; Immigration.; Migration.; Population change.; Rural economy.; Rural urban relations.; Electronic books.
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This book underscores the extent to which different nations are confronting common challenges associated with the structural forces of globalization, while at the same time highlighting and comparing the context-specific nature of local and regional responses to rural change. Second, the book provid...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction : The Next Rural Economies / Greg Halseth, Sean Markey, Bill Reimer, Don Manson
• Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something ... ? Rediscovering the Comparative Advantage of the 'New' Pastoral Economies of Northern New South Wales, Australia / Neil Argent, Jim Walmsley, and Tony Sorensen
• The US Great Plains, Change, and Place Development / Lisa M.B. Harrington
• A New Rural North Carolina : Latino Place-Making and Community Engagement / Owen J. Furuseth
• Connecting Rural and Urban Places : Enduring Migration between Small Areas in England and Wale / Nigel Walford
• Ontario's Greenbelt and Places to Grow Legislation : Impacts on the Future of the Countryside and the Rural Economy / Hugh J. Gayler
• Adding Value Locally through Integrated Rural Tourism : Lessons from Ireland / Mary Cawley
• Value-added Agricultural Products and Entertainment in Michigan's Fruit Belt / Deborah Che
• Rural Restructuring and the New Rural Economy : Examples from Germany and Canada / Doug Ramsey
• Nurturing the Animation Sector in a Peripheral Economic Region : the Case of Miramichi, New Brunswick / David Bruce
• Co-Constructing Rural Communities in the 21st Century : Challenges for Central Governments and the Research Community in Working Effectively with Local and Regional Actors / Christopher Bryant
• Partnerships, People, and Place : Lauding the Local in Rural Development / David Storey
• The Political Economies of Place in the Emergent Global Countryside : Stories from Rural Wales / Michael Woods
• Reviving Small Rural Towns in the Paris Periurban Fringes / Claire Aragau and Jean-Paul Charvet
• When Rural-Urban Fringes Arise as Differentiated Place : the Socio-Economic Restructuring of Volvic Sources et Volcans, France / Salma Loudiyi
• Rural Development Strategies in Japan / Masatoshi Ouchi
• Heroes, Hope, and Resource Development in Canada's Periphery : Lessons from Newfoundland and Labrador / Kelly Vodden
• Fly-in, Fly-out Resource Development : A New Regionalist Perspective on the Next Rural Economy / Sean Markey
• Understanding and Transforming a Staples-based Economy : Place-based Development in Northern British Columbia, Canada / Greg Halseth
• Space to Place : Bridging the Gap / Bill Reimer.