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This book focuses on the transformation of rural places, peoples, and land endemic to the contemporary manifestations of globalization.

This book focuses on the transformation of rural places, peoples, and land endemic to the contemporary manifestations of globalization.

This book explores the notion of rurality and how it is used and produced in various contexts, including within populist politics which derives their legitimacy from the rural-urban divide.

The goal of the book is to fill the gap in the knowledge on silvo-pastoral systems and their changing trends, by adding the human dimension, with enough detail to draw inferences about the new governance solutions that are needed to address the multiple challenges faced by silvo-pastoral systems.

This book aims to fill a gap in the current literature by tracing the rural transformation process and the development of rural tourism functions in Poland over the last 30 years.

Based on a two-year European research project on policies and young people in rural development, this edited volume examines these issues and compares young people's experiences of rural life in the UK, Ireland, Finland, France, Germany, Austria and Portugal.

This book provides the first foundation of knowledge about the intellectual traditions, contemporary scope and future prospects for the interdisciplinary field of rural gerontology.

Asks what the ideal of sustainable development might mean to specific rural groups and how sustainable development goals have been pursued across the policy spectrum. This book assesses the extent of commitment to a living countryside in Ireland and compares various opportunities to the actual achievement of sustainable rural development.

The last decade or so has witnessed a flourishing of research in rural geography; in particular, approaches which have developed socio-cultural perspectives on rural issues.

Today the use of the term "countryside" reflects a dual historical shift due to the decreasing importance of agriculture and the shift toward the environment. This book focuses on the prospects for the development of the Southern European countryside during a transitional period of major change.

Around Europe lies a "green ring" of countries which have been characterized by a strong agrarian presence. The text brings together case studies from both the post-socialist countries and EU member states it comprises to compare the experiences of rural and agricultural groups.

This volume constitutes a contribution to research on local responses, local actors, questions of leadership, power, autonomy and control in the evolution of responses to wider economic and social restructuring across rural Europe. It examines the diversity of these local political responses.

Despite the fact that the rural commuter belts of cities are major loci of population change, economic growth and dynamic social change within city regions, most research tends to focus on the built-up city core. By comparing four major European cities (in England, France, Germany and Spain), this book offers the first comparative investigation of the dynamism of city rural hinterlands.

Provides an in-depth examination and comparison of women's participation in agricultural production in four Middle-Eastern countries. Each country study provides an overview of the status of women in the national economy and society, and in education and law, before proceeding to analyze the status and roles of women in the rural sector.

By comparing four major European cities, this book offers a comparative investigation of the dynamism of city rural hinterlands. It assesses whether rural areas will become effectively integrated into quality of life improvements as a result of their inter-dependencies with cities.