Winning and losing : the changing geography of Europe's rural areas

Title
  1. Winning and losing : the changing geography of Europe's rural areas / edited by Doris Schmied.
Published by
  1. Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2005.

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Additional authors
  1. Schmied, Doris, 1955-
Description
  1. xiii, 307 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.
Summary
  1. "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
  1. Perspectives on rural policy and planning
Uniform title
  1. Perspectives on rural policy and planning.
Alternative title
  1. Changing geography of Europe's rural areas
Subject
  1. Rural development > Europe
  2. Agriculture > Economic aspects > Europe
  3. Agriculture and state > Europe
  4. Milieu rural
  5. Développement rural
  6. Economie rurale
  7. Sociologie rurale
  8. UE/CE Etats membres
  9. Agriculture and state
  10. Agriculture > Economic aspects
  11. Rural conditions
  12. Rural development
  13. Platteland
  14. Sociaal-economische situatie
  15. Europe > Rural conditions
  16. Europe
Contents
  1. 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
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.