Rural Geography: Processes, Responses and Experiences in Rural Restructuring

Abstract

INTRODUCING RURAL GEOGRAPHY Defining the Rural Understanding the Rural PART TWO: PROCESSES OF RURAL RESTRUCTURING Globalization, Modernity and the Rural World Agricultural Change The Changing Rural Economy Social and Demographic Change Changing Communities Restructuring Rural Services Environmental Change and Rural Areas PART THREE: RESPONSES TO RURAL RESTRUCTURING Rural Policy and the Response to Restructuring Rural Development and Regeneration Rural Governance Selling the Countryside Protecting the Countryside Rural Conflicts PART FOUR: EXPERIENCES OF RURAL RESTRUCTURING Changing Rural Lifestyles Living in the Countryside Housing, Health and Crime Growing up and Growing Old in the Countryside Working in the Countryside Hidden Rural Lifestyles Poverty and Social Exclusion Rurality, National Identity and Ethnicity Alternative Rural Lifestyles PART FIVE: CONCLUSION Thinking again about the Rural