Part 1 United States of America: from conservation to preservation - New Deal land utilization projects revisited, Michael E. Lewis; the evolution of rural cultural resource management in the Boxley Valley of the Buffalo National River, 1972-1992, Kenneth Story; funding of disaster management and the changing structure of rural county budgets, William D. Solecki; 1991-92, the year in review in US rural planning - riding the crest of conservation reaction?, Mark B. Lapping and Eve Baron; current demographics and economic perspectives on rural America, Owen Furuseth. Part 2 United Kingdom: the Countryside Commission and the Thatcher years, Adrian Phillips; progress in water management in the lowlands, Hadrian F. Cook; annual review of rural planning in the United Kingdom, Andrew W. Gilg. Part 3 Europe: agriculture and the rural environment in Europe, Mark Blacksell; reforming the CAP - beyond MacSharry, Guy M. Robinson and Brian W. Ilbery; the budgetary effects on the CAP reforms in the UK, A.K. Copus and K.J. Thomson; agriculture and rural areas - a 25 point declaration by the Permanent Assembly of the French Chambers of Agriculture, translated by Mark Blacksell; the Community structural funds and post-Maastricht cohesion, Nelly Jazra Bandarra; peripheral labour markets under pressure of change, Lars Olaf Persson; legislative developments in the European Community July 1991-June 1992, Andrew W. Gilg. Part 4 Canada: exclusive agricultural zoning in British Columbia and Quebec - problems and prospects, John T. Pierce and Jacinthe Seguin; providing post-secondary education in a remote rural area - the example of Northwestern Ontario, E.R. Zimmerman and D.R. Pakulak; Canada - the rural scene, Robert S. Dilley. Part 5 Australasia: population, resources and environment - contributions to the Australian debate, K.D. Cocks; recent developments in rural policy and planning Australasia, Geoff McDonald.