Next Rural Economies
Constructing Rural Place in Global Economies
Published on 21. December 2009
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-1-84593-581-8 (ISBN)
Description
Rural policy in industrialized countries is currently undergoing significant change. 'Place-based economies', where the unique attributes and assets of individual places determine their attractiveness for particular types of activities and investments, are increasingly important for rural development. The Next Rural Economies debates the future of rural development and highlights successes and failures to inform research, policy and community action. Case studies present discussions of the current state of rural community and economic restructuring and provide research and policy directions for constructing resilient and sustainable rural economies.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Wallingford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 175 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
839 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84593-581-8 (9781845935818)
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Persons
Greg Halseth is a Professor in the Geography Program at the University of Northern British Columbia, where he is also the Canada Research Chair in Rural and Small Town Studies, and the Acting Director of UNBCs Community Development Institute. His research examines rural and small town community development, and the social geography of community change, all with a focus upon the northern B.C.s resource-based towns. He served as a member of various Federal, Provincial, and community advisory committees as well as a research advisor to a number of non-profit associations interested in rural Canada. He served on the governing council of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. His most recent books include Building Community in an Instant Town which talks about Mackenzie and Tumbler Ridge, and Building for Success which talks about rural and small town community development and community economic development. Sean Markey is an Assistant Professor with the Centre for Sustainable Community Development at Simon Fraser University. His research examines issues of local and regional development and sustainability. He has published widely and is the principle author of Second Growth: Community Economic Development in Rural British Columbia (UBC Press, 2005). In addition to his academic experience, Sean continues to work with municipalities, non-profit organizations, Aboriginal communities and the business community to promote and develop sustainable forms of local economic development. David Bruce is the Director of the Rural and Small Town Programme, Mount Allison University, where he is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Geography and Environment. His research explores rural community development issues, primarily in Atlantic Canada, with a particular focus on community economic development, housing, population mobility, poverty, broadband, and economic transition. In 2009 he was named to the New Brunswick governments Premiers Roundtable of Self-Sufficiency. He has served on a number of national and regional bodies as a board member, executive member, and policy advisor.
Editor
University of Northern British Columbia, Canada
Simon Fraser University, Canada
Mount Allison University, Canada
Contributions
University of New England, Australia
University of Paris 10, France
Universite de Montreal, Canada
National University of Ireland, Galway
University of PARIS 10, France
Kansas State University, USA
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
Content
1: Introduction: The Next Rural Economies a: Demographics, Migration, and Immigration 2: Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed Something:::? Rediscovering the Comparative Advantage of the New Pastoral Economies of Northern New South Wales, Australia 3: The US Great Plains, Change, and Place Development 4: A New Rural North Carolina: Latino Place-Making and Community Engagement 5: Connecting Rural and Urban Places: Enduring Migration between Small Areas in England and Wales 6: Ontario's Greenbelt and Places to Grow Legislation: Impacts on the Future of the Countryside and the Rural Economy b: Emerging Economies 7: Adding Value Locally through Integrated Rural Tourism: Lessons from Ireland 8: Value-Added Agricultural Products and Entertainment in Michigan's Fruit Belt 9: Rural Restructuring and the New Rural Economy: Examples from Germany and Canada 10: Nurturing the Animation Sector in a Peripheral Economic Region: The Case of Miramichi, New Brunswick c: Rural Policy and Governance 11: Co-Constructing Rural Communities in the 21st Century: Challenges for Central Governments and the Research Community in Working Effectively with Local and Regional Actors 12: Partnerships, People, and Place: Lauding the Local in Rural Development 13: The Political Economies of Place in the Emergent Global Countryside: Stories from Rural Wales d: Rural-Urban Exchange 14: Reviving Small Rural Towns in the Paris Periurban Fringes 15: When Rural-Urban Fringes Arise as Differentiated Place: The Socio-Economic Restructuring of Volvic Sources et Volcans, France 16: Rural Development Strategies in Japan e: Renewal in Resource Peripheries 17: Heroes, Hope, and Resource Development in Canada's Periphery: Lessons from Newfoundland and Labrador 18: Fly-in, Fly-out Resource Development: A New Regionalist Perspective on the Next Rural Economy 19: Understanding and Transforming a Staples-Based Economy: Place-Based Development in Northern British Columbia, Canada 20: Space to Place: Bridging the Gap