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RURAL GEOGRAPHY
PROCESSES, RESPONSES AND EXPERIENCES IN RURAL RESTRUCTURING |
| By: |
Michael Woods |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£182.00 |
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£163.80 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0761947604 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780761947608 |
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| Publisher: |
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC |
| Pub. date: |
1 December, 2004 |
| Pages: |
352 |
| Description: |
Presents an introduction to contemporary rural societies and economies in the developed world. This book examines the social and economic processes at work in the contemporary countryside - including the more traditional: like agriculture; land use; and population; as well as wider themes like: rural health, crime, exclusion, commodification. |
| Synopsis: |
"Michael Woods has taken on the formidable task of giving an overview of rural places and society in advanced economies as a single author and has presented a book that rightly deserves to be called state-of-the-art." - Geographische Rundschau"With Rural Geography Michael Woods remedies the often underestimated dynamism of rural places and rural society by providing the much-needed synthesis of the European and North American literature on rural restructuring and globalization processes."- Patrick H Mooney, University of KentuckyRural Geography is an introduction to contemporary rural societies and economies in the developed world. It examines the social and economic processes at work in the contemporary countryside - including the more traditional: like agriculture; land use; and population; as well as wider themes like: rural health, crime, exclusion, commodification; and alternative lifestyles. With a contextualising section defining the rural, the text is organised systematically in three principal sections:Processes of Rural RestructuringResponses to Rural RestructuringExperiences of Rural Restructuring Using the most recent empirical material , statistical data and research, the text is global in perspective using comparative examples throughout. Rural Geography is a systematic introduction to the processes, responses, and experiences of rural restructuring. |
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US |
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SAGE Publications Inc |
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