Community Development on the North Atlantic Margin
Selected Contributions to the Fifteenth International Seminar on Marginal Regions
Published on 22. October 2001
Book
Hardback
312 pages
978-0-7546-1663-4 (ISBN)
Description
Isolated communities, dependent upon fishing, farming and forestry, which are scattered around the North Atlantic coast, have shared a disastrous decline during the last decade. These communities are in the peripheries of advanced industrial nation-states, such as Canada and supra-national alliances, such as the European Community, yet despite this, there are no easy solutions to the development of these regions. This volume argues that the productive assets of these regions, and how they can be used to sustain household incomes, need to be better understood. The assets need to be converted into products and services and they need to be marketed profitably. The diminshing flow of young people who leave these areas to obtain higher education and who do not return must be turned around and efforts must be concentrated on the creation or strengthening of economic conditions which satisfy the younger generation's employment aspirations, consumer requirements and social needs. At present, even the urban centres of these regions are losing their young population and the book suggests that successful regional and community development policies must focus on these centres first.
The book argues against excessively "social" models of development and instead emphasizes applied economics approaches. By placing these peripheral communities in their wider economic contexts and by seeing these communities through the eyes of the young local people, this collection offers insights to and understandings of, the processes which are shaping the future of communities in these regions.
The book argues against excessively "social" models of development and instead emphasizes applied economics approaches. By placing these peripheral communities in their wider economic contexts and by seeing these communities through the eyes of the young local people, this collection offers insights to and understandings of, the processes which are shaping the future of communities in these regions.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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maps
Dimensions
Height: 161 mm
Width: 216 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7546-1663-4 (9780754616634)
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Content
Part 1 New perspectives on community development: looking to the land - regional imagery, quality products and development strategy in marginal rural regions, Tim Jenkins and Nicholas Parrott; new public management in marginal regions, Paul Olav Berg. Part 2 The changing fortunes of farming and fishing in the economies of marginal regions: a long-term evaluation of Swedish policy responses to the fisheries crash of 1967, Reginald Byron; how are young people coping with economic restructuring?, Jens Christian Hansen; surviving the farm crisis - ways forward for farmers in south-west Wales, John Hutson; strategic marginalization and coping mechanisms - farm households in north-west France, Alison McCleery. Part 3 Resources and constraints in community development: the problem of the outsourcing of service provision and its impact on marginal regions, Peter Sjoholt; crafts producers on the Celtic fringe - marginal lifestyles in the marginal regions?, Anne-Marie Sherwood et al; the economic impact of Welsh national nature reserves, Michael Christie; the politics of local land use planning in Norway, Jorgen Amdam; differing agendas in community development - the case of self-build, Susan Hutson; fighting for survival - a comparison of two Irish community development movements, Diarmuid O Cearbhaill and Tony Varley. Part 4 Comparative perspectives on marginality and regionality: continuity and change in the rural economy - flexibility as tradition, Havard Teigen; appropriating the margins, creating the centre - the Group of Seven and the construction of Canadian national identity, Richard Apostle. Conclusion: new directions in community development, Reginald Byron and John Hutson.