The Differentiated Countryside (Routledge Studies in Human Geography)

In the wake of BSE, the threat to ban fox hunting and Foot and Mouth disease, the English countryside appears to be in turmoil. Long-standing uses of rural space are in crisis and, unsurprisingly, political processes in rural areas are marked by conflicts between groups, such as farmers, environmentalists, developers and local residents. Using an innovative theoretical approach based on 'networks of conventions', this book investigates the 'regionalisation' of the English countryside through a series of case-studies. These studies are based on a set of 'ideal types': 'the preserved' countryside, where environmental pressures are strongly expressed; the 'contested' countryside, where development processes are shaped by disputes between agrarian and environmental interests; and the 'paternalistic' countryside, where large landowners continue to oversee patterns of land development. It looks in detail at landowners, residents, politicians, planners, farmers, and environmentalists and shows how these groups compete.The Differentiated Countryside argues that the countryside is increasingly governed by regional policies. It becomes hard to discern a single English countryside; we see the emergence of multiple countrysides, places where diverse modes of identity are expressed and differing forms of development take place. Such diversity, it is argued, now lies at the heart of rural England.

Politics & Social Sciences

Lowe, Philip

Social Sciences

Routledge

Drawing on the expertise of an internationally renowned group of authors, this monograph examines the complex political, social and institutional problems encountered by modern states seeking to manage their agricultural sectors. Using examples from regions around the globe including Scandinavia, New Zealand, China and Germany, the book delves into topics as diverse as agribusiness and corporatism, regulation of agriculture, productivist paradigms, politics of agricultural change, agricultural deregulation, retailing in a regulatory state, managed versus liberalised markets, the national politics of international trade reform and principles of the GATT agreement from the agricultural perspective.

Regulating Agriculture (Critical Perspectives on Rural Change)

Business & Money

Economics

wiley

Countryside Conflicts: The Politics of Farming, Forestry, and Conservation

O'Riordan, Tim

Cox, Grahm

Macewen, Malcolm

Winter, Michae

Gower Pub.Co.

Constructing The Countryside

Marsden, Terry

Flynn, Andrew

Murdoch, Jonathan

Munton, Richard

Westview Press

This book provides new insights into the trends that will guide rural change in advanced economies into the next century and offers an innovative approach to investigating those trends. Constructing the Countryside will appeal to students and staff in a wide range of social science disciplines, including rural sociology, geography, planning, environmental management, agricultural economics and land economy, as well as to anyone concerned with the future development of rural areas. This book offers a stimulating reinterpretation of rural change, bolstered by new concepts and fresh approaches to assessment. The authors first show the necessity of an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the combined effects of social, economic, political, and cultural forces for change. Together they have developed a methodology that integrates the broader national and international forces for change with the responses of actors in their particular local contexts, showing as well the significance of rural change in the international restructuring of the economy and polity.The book provides insights into the trends that will guide rural change in advanced economies into the next century and offers an innovative approach to investigating those trends.Constructing the Countryside will appeal to both students and staff in a wide range of social science disciplines, including rural sociology, geography, planning, environmental management, agricultural economics and land economy, as well as to anyone concerned with the future development of rural areas.

This book reviews assessments on the environmental effects of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), and assesses the contribution of agricultural policy to environmental quality in the EU. It focuses on the role of agricultural policy in reducing harmful effects and/or creating benefits to the physical environment, landscape and nature. Emphasis is given to comparative studies, rather than any limited to one country. The commodity regimes of the CAP – e.g. the beef, wine and olive oil regimes – are considered in detail.

CAP Regimes and the European Countryside (Cabi)

Brouwer, Floor

CABI

The Differentiated Countryside

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Regulating Agriculture (Critical Perspectives on Rural Change Series, V)

David Fulton Pub

Constructuring The Countryside: An Approach To Rural Development (Restructuring Rural Areas , No 1)

As the first book in the Restructuring Rural Areas series, "Constructing the countryside" presents a new methodological approach to the analysis of rural change. The authors seek to link wider developments in the global political economy to the behaviour of local actors and, in so doing, they place research into rural studies much more firmly than hitherto in the mainstream of social science enquiry. The outcome is a book that promotes a truly interdisciplinary approach through which the constant "reconstruction" of the countryside can be properly understood. This holistic perspective, sustained by an historical analysis of rural change, has been made possible by the extensive research experience of the authors.; The book is a product of the work done at the London Countryside Research Centre, which was set up in 1989 by the Economic and Social Research Council. The Centre's research has focused upon the social and political forces for change in rural areas and how these relate to rapid alterations in national economic circumstances and to public policies affecting the countryside for example, the Common Agricultural Policy of the EC .; On the one hand, the book provides a set of insights into the trends that will guide rural change in advanced economies into the next century; on the other, it offers a challenging account of how they can be investigated.; "Constructing the countryside" will appeal to both students and staff in a wide range of social science disciplines, including agricultural economics, environmental management, planning, land economy, geography and rural sociology, and to all those concerned with the future development of rural areas.; This book is intended for students and researchers in rural planning and environmental/geographical studies, whether within a geographical or a sociological milieu.

Constructuring The Countryside: An Approach To Rural Development (Restructuring Rural Areas)

Murdoch, Jonathon

Munton, Richard C

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