Winning and losing : the changing geography of Europe's rural areas
- Title
- Winning and losing : the changing geography of Europe's rural areas / edited by Doris Schmied.
- Published by
- Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2005.
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- Description
- xiii, 307 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Bringing together a range of comparative case studies from France, Finland, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Spain, Sweden, Portugal, the UK and other countries, this book provides a comprehensive and balanced picture of rural change over the past five decades. It explores which aspects of the European countryside have benefited and which have suffered as a consequence of the often contradictory forces of restructuring."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series statement
- Perspectives on rural policy and planning
- Uniform title
- Perspectives on rural policy and planning.
- Alternative title
- Changing geography of Europe's rural areas
- Subject
- Rural development > Europe
- Agriculture > Economic aspects > Europe
- Agriculture and state > Europe
- Milieu rural
- Développement rural
- Economie rurale
- Sociologie rurale
- UE/CE Etats membres
- Agriculture and state
- Agriculture > Economic aspects
- Rural conditions
- Rural development
- Platteland
- Sociaal-economische situatie
- Europe > Rural conditions
- Europe
- Contents
- Introduction : winning and losing in Europe's rural areas / Doris Schmied -- 1. Employment restructuring in rural areas / Anne Green -- 2. Agriculture on the verge of the 21[superscript st] century : the challenge of coming to terms with the environment / Maryvonne Bodiguel -- 3. Global integration and the industrialization of the countryside / Christos Kalantaridis -- 4. Sustainable rural tourism and rural change / Derek Hall -- 5. Rural areas in the digital economy / Jeremy Millard -- 6. Supply of goods and services in sparsely populated regions : the example of Sweden's glesbygd / Gunter Loffler -- 7. Incomers and locals in the European countryside / Doris Schmied -- 8. situation of young people in rural areas / Walter Bien, Lothar Lappe and Richard Rathgeber -- 9. Older people in rural Europe : a comparative analysis / Thomas Scharf, G. Clare Wenger, Frans Thissen and Vanessa Burholt -- 10. Structural funds and gender mainstreaming : counting heads or changing structures? / Gunnel Forsberg -- 11. Tackling social exclusion : an evaluation of local exchange and trading schemes (LETS) / Colin C. Williams -- 12. booming country -- a booming countryside? : the Celtic tiger phenomenon and the consequences for rural areas / Mary Cawley -- 13. Mountainous areas -- forever losing? : the examples of Oberallgau (Germany) and Sierra de Francia (Spain) / Alois Muller -- 14. Spatial restructuring of rural Finland / Markku Tykkylainen -- 15. Social capital and rural development : from win-lose to win-win with the LEADER initiative / Gilda Farrell and Samuel Thirion.
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.